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Teacher training day?

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Sheraz · 27/10/2006 14:16

My DS1 is home on teacher training today. Do teachers really train on these days or is it a bit of a dossy day? I am not critisising teachers.. think do a great job and don't begrudge them if is a dossy day.. just curious to know what you all get up to?

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peachygoul · 27/10/2006 14:20

Yes we do do training. the first day back in Sept is traditionally classroom organisation time but every year one day should be spent dicussing the school development plan ( might have a different name now) and then schools work on the targets set in that. Often school will have speakers in, looking at new stratgies, preparation of inspections etc etc.
It's not all carousing, although we do get a bit longer at lunchtime and go to the pub!

southeastastra · 27/10/2006 14:21

why are there soooo many now! argh

Blandmum · 27/10/2006 14:24

YES we do bloody work on training days! [gritted teeth smile emoticon needed]

And thse days were taken out of the teacher holiday allowance. They have always been days when children were not expected to be in school.

Our last one was boredom personified when we looked at 'Enterprise' in schools. We have also had them on formative assessment, positive behaviour managment, formal assessment for ofted, first aid etc Most of them are rather pointless

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Sheraz · 27/10/2006 14:25

sounds like fascinating stuff Martian!

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Tommy · 27/10/2006 14:35

there are only 5 a year southeastra! the same as there has always been (it just seems more when it's your children who are off )

Blandmum · 27/10/2006 14:36

So good in fact that I have almost perfected the trick of sleeping upright , with both eyes open!

The first aid days was excellent, as was the positive behaviour managemnt day. But some of the rest! And you know damn fine that the people giving the talk would last about 30 seconds in a 'normal' classroom!

MaloryTowersTaurean · 27/10/2006 14:37

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Blandmum · 27/10/2006 14:47

and Oh God!, how could I forget the stunning half day when the head lectured us on how to use the new computerised regester system!

OMG! It was a dull as arse.

And the guy didn't know how to use the system properly!

A few weeks ago he spent1.5 hours shoing us how to calculte out targets using percentage!

He spent over an hour showing us how to do percentage! FFS!

Sophiev73 · 27/10/2006 15:04

Bloody training days... Not a doss I WISH!!!

My favourite was a day spent doing maths across the curriculum - as I am definitely NOT a maths teacher, it was a gruelling time of trying to figure out how to use numbers in Drama and Enlgish (beyond '1 book between 3 now'...)

All the maths and science teachers spent the day showing off about equilateral equations or something...

Sophiev73 · 27/10/2006 15:05

Ah, not a reference to your super maths skills MB...

MaloryTowersTaurean · 27/10/2006 15:05

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Sophiev73 · 27/10/2006 15:05

How .

ENGLISH

GODisGOOD · 27/10/2006 15:06

AS GOD I KNOW EVERYTHING. teachers go to the bin store and smoke like chimneys.

Blandmum · 27/10/2006 15:06

LOL, we can be arsy on times!

When we say the positive behaviour managment videoone was from a physics lesson. And we all spent our time complaining that his understanding of the science was crap!

The enterprise day was the worst. How we can teach the kids enterprise in every lesson. YAWN

Blandmum · 27/10/2006 15:07

We do have a nice lunch though, cooked by the school dinner ladies who are bloody good

MaloryTowersTaurean · 27/10/2006 15:07

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Sophiev73 · 27/10/2006 15:08

When I first started teaching, I used to smoke behind the bike sheds on fags I'd confiscated from pupils... On training days only, naturally...

Blandmum · 27/10/2006 15:08

I just spat coffee all over the monitor Malory! Thanks for that!

MaloryTowersTaurean · 27/10/2006 15:12

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Sophiev73 · 27/10/2006 15:13

In our secondary school we have an 'Awe and Wonder' room. I kid you not. It's full of computers. The irony is, back when it was my teaching room, it was called E2... Hmmm...

MaloryTowersTaurean · 27/10/2006 15:14

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Blandmum · 27/10/2006 15:15

We have to see a 1.1 increace in the child's appreciation of 'Awe and wonder' over years 7,8 and 9.

Children attaining a level 5 in Awe and Wonder in their KS3 sats must attain 5 A* to C grades in being Awesome and Wonderful in their GCSEs.

Those getting a level 6 ditch awe and wonder and become Smug and Resentful

Sheesh, but we don't half deal with some shite, don't we?

MaloryTowersTaurean · 27/10/2006 15:15

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MaloryTowersTaurean · 27/10/2006 15:16

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Blandmum · 27/10/2006 15:19

I get lots of positives for my cross curricular links! I start off my lesson on Photosynthesis with the biblical quote 'All flesh is Grass' Wows them every time