Would this concern you, teachers spelling

[Hollyy8]

my Dson Y1 teacher puts posts on to show what they have been learning and things are often misspelt. Today colourful was spelt ‘couliurful’

If the teacher's dyslexia affects the children's learning, that's a huge problem right there.

I'm 56 and I still have to stop and think before I spell the word February because for most of the year when I was in year 2, I sat next to a wall with other kid's work on it and someone had spelled it 'Febrary'.

It's weird how deeply it subconsciously sank in.

This is true. Fat fingers maybe? If it really was misspelt then it’s pretty bad.

I doubt it was misspelt. I,O and U are all in very close proximity on the QWERTY keyboard so I would be more inclined to think it was done in a rush and not proofread properly.

You’d all hate me then! I teach English up to A level and very much struggle with certain spellings. Notably anything that has - or I think might have - a double letter in the middle. What I do to overcome this difficulty is model to the children what I do when I’m unsure. I either consult the dictionary I usually have on the desk or, if not in my own room, I use the spell check function on my phone.

99% of the time, my spelling is correct (I think a life long lack of confidence in spelling has made me more paranoid than I need to be!) but I encourage children to point out any errors I’ve made and correct me on them. It’s rare, but it does happen (and they bloody love it when it does! 😆)

I can’t decide if the error was intentionally meant to sound like the policeman from ‘allo ‘allo or not, but either way it made me laugh after a rough day!! 😂

I would be aghast.

I'd class a misspelling like that as an indication the teacher was borderline illiterate.

I would be flabbergasted and nigh apoplectic at the egregious orthographic aberration besmirching the otherwise perspicuous manuscript—a lexical calamity of such sesquipedalian ignominy that it offends even the most phlegmatic of grammarians.

Both spelling & punctuation seem to be an issue with much of school correspondence, concerning especially when it’s coming from a secondary education setting.

I needed this giggle, showing my age though!

I know a primary teacher who regularly posts with poor SPAG on her Facebook posts (definitely not typos). Makes me cringe every time.

It's probably been said but ...do you know how to use apostrophes?

Sorry but teachers should also know how to edit. We teach the children to do so.

This is surely just a fat fingers moment rather than an actual spelling mistake though? I wonder whether the teacher is rushing because she's expected to update some sort of (what even is it, an app or website?) parent contact thing on top of everything else she has to do. As long as official correspondence and homework from the school is correct it wouldn't bother me

I would say something. I wouldn't worry too much about her ability to teach spelling, as it's probably a typo, but I would worry about her lack of time, care ability to check what she posts!

We had this recently, and I didn't believe it one bit then

Even if it is a typo, the teacher should be checking before pressing Send.

I would assume a typo ,its a symptom of the ridiculous expectations of a continual back and forth of communication between school and home. If you genuinely think the teacher can not spell then bring it up but otherwise I'd cut some slack for typos and concentrate on building a good home school relationship.

It tells you the name associated with the login. There is probably one log in per class.

You're missing the point. I obviously wasn't suggesting that year 1 children would be reading this post.

I was spared the ordeal of ever having to point out spelling errors to teachers at DS's school, as DS had already pointed them out to them! (He was later diagnosed with ASD, so was always very 'honest' when things were wrong).

I think it matters and it should be raised. I did the same at my son’s primary about them sending out letters filled with errors.

I've never encountered a teacher with anything approaching solid spelling and grammar. There's not much you can do about it.

So what was your point?

My child's teacher has written "explanation mark" a couple of times on the app, instead of "exclamation mark". Unfortunately, the app doesn't have any way to send a comment back, so holding off on correcting her. Really irritating me!

I'd ask her what it is explaining... 😁