Correcting Teaching Assistant's grammar and spelling

How is it prejudice? Why is it okay for people to teach your children when they don’t know the basics themselves?

It is nothing new, I was a total PIA for my first teacher in Yr1, a Mr Curtis. Any slight mistake and my hand was up. It was no wonder they moved me to the next class up.

That hurts my brain. It's a strange burning feeling like a bonfire inside my head. 😮

Sorry, Abraham Lincoln, I should have said dialect.

Saying 'of' instead of 'have' is not an accent. They are completely different words

Also here for the answer to this!

I did a H&S course and the tutor wrote pacific instead of specific in the handouts!

Of course it matters, to a degree this is just an accent as cringe as it is, but as long as the TA is not teaching people this is the way it should be done, i don't see a problem.

Sure, it makes them sound uneducated and this may well be the case, but if the TA is teaching correctly then there's no real problem other than your prejudice.

It shouldn’t matter though. That is why people write ‘should OF’ because that’s how they hear people say it.

Depends, are they teaching the kids that's how its done or talking to peers in the staff room?

Yes I agree - I know someone who is very well educated but says pacific

Yes, they absolutely do!!

Woe betide.

She is feisty, wo betide anyone who tried to take the mickey out of her for her speech 😂

I would absolutely correct it, especially in an education setting.

But I suppose it doesn’t matter because the young post grads with whom I work can’t spell or use grammar anyway.

As a teacher I love it if the children correct me - I make a point of saying we all learn through making mistakes. Grammar does drive me mad, with the worst being could / would / should of and we done 😤
I will repeat what a child says to correct them. The other day the answer was 20 and a child said ‘twenny’ to which I said there was no such number or word. He tried arguing his point saying it was his accent, but it didn’t wash with me!

Maybe, depends on the circumstance. It’s harder when it’s the teacher, especially when teaching phonics. The amount of times they are saying luh and I’m repeating llll in the hope they will realise. One teacher when being observed just went silent on certain sounds and let the dc say it so she must have known how she was saying it was wrong but kept doing it at other times.

@TheBroonOneAndTheWhiteOne nope I can say special perfectly well. For some reason specific comes out a as sa pif ic. I have tried really hard to say it correctly and it just doesn’t come out right. It’s really embarrassing so I use other words in its place.

Haha! Sorry, aloud! This is partly why I would never pull someone up on their SPAG in a way that could embarrass them or make them feel corrected., I would say my grasp of spelling and grammar is usually good but it’s not perfect all of the time; most people will make mistakes when they write sometimes, especially in informal situations where they’re not likely to be proofreading.

I wouldn't correct someone's pronunciation or grammar in speech unless it was wildly the wrong word, I think that's rude.
I'd correct written spelling/grammar mistakes though.

Teachers too. It’s far too easy to work in education.
I’ve always thought they should phase in new teaching qualifications, that are extremely hard and competitive to get into.. just as medicine etc is hard to get into and qualify for.
But with these new qualifications, the gov backs a £60k starting salary.
Eventually, the ‘old’ teaching certificate will only make you eligible to be a TA.
TA’s entry requirements would be at a similar threshold to teachers, with similar pay.
Investing in education will pay in long run. Just look at Singapore!

Are you talking about American schools? Its a bit confusing, you mention GCSEs but 'Public school' means something different in the UK. I disagree with what you say anyway.

I didn't express an opinion on that.

The education system in this country needs an overhaul. Teachers are also not sufficiently educated for their jobs. It's bizarre you're allowed to become a teacher / care giver at such a young age and with no direct experience of the world you're preparing young people for. But it won't change any time soon.

In the meantime, back to needing a whole-school approach to have meaningful impact on the development of young people. In particular on their acquisition of standard language.

Yes, I'd correct them every time.

Did you want to read what I wrote again. You expanded my sentence into a paragraph, adding additional information. No, gaining GCSEs is not the same as being educated. A) you forget everything you learned at GCSE the day after the linear memory test. B) you have assumed my position is that only qualifications determine your educated status.

What about manners? People don't get grades for manners.

Also: we send children to school because they need babysitting while parents are at work. Public schools don't teach young people anything of use in the real world. Most people have wisened up to that now. A (public) high school education (on its own) does not qualify as being educated.