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’

Sounds like you did the right thing. Sorry you had this experience.

I thought the same.
Yes it would bother me and, if it wasn't just a typo, I would speak to them. But if you're going to comment on other people then you might want to use correct English yourself.

My point was about criticising someone for making errors, or implying they should lead by example, then failing to lead by example yourself.

Note: In my original comment, I acknowledged that my point was pedantic and that the teacher making mistakes was “not ideal”. Won't be replying further.

So who should she be setting an example to with her SPAG on this thread?

My dd is in secondary school. The homework materials are embarrassing. This isn’t just one teacher. She has like 10 and it’s across the board. Nearly every homework assignment has misspellings. And then things like, they must do it exactly like what’s in the attachment, but no attachment and no way to contact the teacher to say they didn’t upload the attachment.

And then some of the material is just wrong. I have a PhD in a field that she has as a subject. Last term’s assessment revision they had to learn definitions of key terms, one of them listed twice with completely different definitions and one of the other terms was just wrong (the definition did not actually accurately define the term). 🤷🏻‍♀️ I had to bite my tongue at parents evening because I didn’t want to be like, so I have a PhD and 20 years experience in this area, but can we for a second just have a look at this assessment from the 10th of December please? I just really didn’t want to be that parent. 😂

I was a teacher and I would have been mortified if I had sent home anything that was incorrect. Of course some teachers have dyslexia; it doesn’t preclude them from teaching, but it does mean that it’s necessary to be even more vigilant about proofreading and checking.

It’s reasonable to expect that any communication from school has correct spelling and grammar. As a teacher, you should check if you’re unsure. Primary teachers are not teaching a specialist subject, but do have to ensure that what they are teaching is accurate.

Check the jotter and classroom displays to see if there are mistakes there.Then there is an issue. An overworked teacher who has now got an add-on job being forced to post for parents will be doing this very quickly and likely to make typos.

Things like this do bother me, it's lazy at best. I remember years ago getting an information book about a PE trip that was littered with errors. I know PE teachers probably don't need to produce written work as often as other teachers, but it was embarrassingly awful. Two years later we got the same book for the next child going on the trip and it hadn't been corrected. You'd think one member of the PE department would've spotted the mistakes and taken the initiative to correct them.

I didn't say anything to the school. I told my child to find as many errors in it as they could, just for fun. I'm a bitch.

Love how someone tried to blame the TA as if teachers can't be thick.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Brilliant.

No question mark either!

Why are people being pillocks over op's spelling/grammar? She's not a teacher who, presumably, would mark that word incorrectly if a kid wrote it that way on a spelling test 🙄

Op you'd be right to raise this with the school, she probably just needs a reminder to spell check. No harm done.

You must be guttered

Yes, because given you haven't used an apostrophe or commas appropriately in your opening post, you clearly aren't able to teach him properly either.

I know a teacher who says was instead of were. Makes me wince and wish I could say something.

My kids had a teacher who occasionally got the spelling list wrong . One of the mums was a secondary English teacher and just used to correct them on the class what’s app . No one made a fuss , she was an excellent teacher and a great example of a good human and I’m glad that she was in both my kids lives … that particular class was a lovely class and it felt like we were all in it together . My younger DCs class not so much but fortunately the spelling lists were right by then . Teachers work hard and are human beings

I would assume the poor woman was trying to do a million and one things (as all teachers do - it's a totally unrealistic workload) and rushing everything and just give her the benefit of the doubt.

Misspelt or typos?

Coliourful is a typo. Colorful would be a misspelling.

You try working an 80 hour week and also having some semblance of a family life, and then come back and tell us how that is going.

Imagine having to put homework packs together in addition to teaching all day and doing the 20/30 hours a week admin teachers do. All for kids to mostly ignore and not do anyway.

Can’t see nuffin wrong wiv it!

'Like'???

I've just counted 5 (only one is potentially correct but there is a better word)

How many did you use in your dissertation?

I know that word is overused in speech but I've never seen it written 'like' that before!

Many people do not know how to spell. It’s not surprising that so many teachers cannot either. But we have a recruitment crisis so we have to take what we can. Same in the NHS too.

They're both a misspelling.

Typos are different to misspellings, though.

If it's one-off then that's ok, but OP writes that it has happened several times.

I used to be a peripatetic teacher and the Year 1 teacher at one of the schools I taught at, was constantly making spelling and grammatical errors. Nobody mentioned it as we didn't want to hurt her feelings. She was a lovely person and the children liked her, but she got an awful OFSTED report and she ended up leaving.

Maybe, if the teacher OP is critiquing, has some kind of dyslexia or issues with spelling, it's in her best interests (as well as the school's and children's) to be pulled up on it (in a kind way).