To not have corrected teacher?

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I sat in a KS1 Geography lesson today.
We were looking at the country Spain.
Teacher told the children that never snowed there and that the only way to get there was to fly.
What about the Pyrenees?

Have you heard of a ferry?

I was working with a group on placement once, talking about the UK. The teacher told them enthusiastically that the UK doesn't have any land borders with another country. The kids all looked at me confused, since I had just explained to them that it does...with Ireland. Great Britain might not,...but the UK does.

I also had a PE teacher correct me in an English lesson (she was trying to be helpful,...but still wrong), insisting that "passive" is a form of past tense and that active and passive sentences are much too difficult for a bottom set Year 7 group. My weakest Y5s can manage active and passive sentences with a little support.

Asked my son 12 about passive and active sentences and he had never been taught anything about them (Scotland)

I'd prefer to be told, away from students and colleagues of course. I'd be embarrassed but I'd be grateful and a bit hacked off with the smart arse correcting me because it would save me future embarrassment.

ouch at the US not being involved in WW1. For me that is just part of general knowledge most people surely know. If it comes up in classroom conversation and you make a mistake that is one thing butnif it is the content of the lesson you plan to teach, it should be accurate.

Wrt to travelling to Spain, that really doesn't require research , does it? Must be obvious you can get there by plane, boat, bus, rail and car. Wrt climate, that could be looked up before pronouncing on it.

What amazing ignorance! Have a word with the HT.

perhaps the teacher should think of how on earth people travelled to spain in previous centuries then!!!

intarsia It was actually part of the scheme of work for Year 7, produced by the English department, which that teacher should have followed. They should have already covered active and passive voice in Years 5 and 6, though. We use it when writing technical information texts and scientific reports. It's also useful when looking at higher-level writing skills in stories. Mine are generally capable of identifying the subject, object, verb, etc. in a sentence, so they aren't finding this particularly difficult. I like grammar, though. (I'm a bit sad.) I was just a bit shocked that she had no understanding of the concept and kept repeating to the class that it had to do with past tense. English is only my second language, though, so I did a lot of grammar at school.

However, I remember doing Maths during the PGCE and sitting with two girls, who completely dissolved when having to do division. The mere mention of the word made them go really pale. Utterly weird.
I, on the other hand, am a complete failure in anything related to Art or Music. Nobody's perfect...even primary school teachers can get things wrong or be rubbish in certain areas.
(There's a mistake on my Maths display. I know it's there...but nobody has spotted it, yet. I'm still waiting for someone to notice. )

I had a child correct my spelling of spagetti see I still can't spell it

Ah yes, Spain. That completely undiscovered land until the invention of the aeroplane

I watched a TA several times giving the input to a plenary session with Year 1 children and each time would be aghast at her lack of general knowledge and appalling writing. Most memorable was the time she was introducing a topic on Explorers by telling the children about Pocahontas, who according to the TA was an Indian. She then said "and we have some Indians like her in our class, don't we?" as she pointed out a boy from Bangladesh and a Pakistani girl!

Im probably being stupid but why does the uk have land borders with Ireland? they are not connected by land! England/scotland yes, but there is sea separating Ireland not land

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Northern_and_Southern_Ireland.png

Did he not go back on a lot of the changes?

yes I know that its part of the uk, but its not connected by land is it!?

True, we will see.

give - did you look at the map?!

There's a land border marked on it. Between Eire and NI.

Sorry, givemeaboost, if you are not from this country, but

N.Ireland is part of UK and connected by land to Ireland

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TBF I don't imagine I know the land borders with all sorts of countries, hadn't thought that some people reading won't be from the UK. Whoops!