Would you point out a spelling mistake in a handout from the teacher?

[emkana]

We had a note in the book bag today -

"We will be making Christingle's next week."

Aaaargh!!!!!
It really bugs me - but should I let it go?

I wish all teachers would do that, cazzybabs. There was an MNer on here a while back whose child had to write plurals, and one of the words was "gateau" - said child wrote "gateaux" and had it marked wrong

Oh god if I have made a mistake I 'fess up to the children - shows them it is OK to make mistakes!

Sorry for typo. Yes perspective i.e. from the child's perspective. He was doing a talk to parents about how children learn about maths.

Tempting though it is just remember your child spends a lot of time with this teacher and if he/she takes a dislike to you your kid could suffer. I'm sure it's unlikely but I worry about things like that.

I can't spell, I'm up front about it with the kids. I teach in secondary and do (If I say so myself) a fantastic job. If a parent corrected my spelling I wouldn't give a toss tbh, but I might think them a little 'sad'.

Ha ha ha ha h a!

No.

It's rare because it's a private school so the teachers are better educated and know their grammar. If I've ever seen it the chilren and I joke about it and we have a little lesson about the rule. In this case she might just have made a error because she was in a hurry like we all do.

Ha h ah ha h ha ha ha!

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teachers better educated in a private school Xenia wtf ? facts glaringly wrong again

pmsl @ better educated teachers in private schools....do they do a special degree for private schools these days then?!!

By all means point it out. Is doing that really going to remedy anything. Obviously none of us ever make mistakes?

made a error - you must mean made an error. You didn't get a private education then, correct?

Xenia- perhaps you could shed light on something for me. I have been on a vast amount of training in my time and have never ever had the pleasure of meeting a teacher from the private sector. So how exactly do they ensure that their practice is current, up to date and refreshed by professional dialogue with others in their field?
Surely their in service training is not conducted entirely in house ?

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Teachers in a private establishment may not even have a formal teaching qualification at all. One of my teachers didn't.

They will like;y be posh though and teach you to wear your skirt properly, I'll give them that.

ditto what robinpud sad

however, I do know who some of our local private school colleagues received literacy hour training some years ago....they came to watch my lessons

and I am a lowly state school teacher...

said - can spell but not type.....maybe had I been a private school teacher...

Poor teachers! This is horrible - why aren't they allowed to make a mistake?...and don't understand why some have suggested doing it in a way that is designed to deliberately make them feel stupid.

and if they move from state to private does some special fairy instantly bestow on them higher qualifications? (all the ones I knew who have done this complain about how terrible the private school teachers are).

Re: "It's rare because it's a private school so the teachers are better educated and know their grammar".

I'm surprised by this comment, as I have three friends who teach at private schools.

Two of them have ordinary honours degrees; one has a BA, the other a BSC. Neither are teaching their degree subject.

The other trained to be an accountant, but applied for a job as an English teacher in a public school, and was offered the post (probably because he had attended the same school himself, and the Headmaster was a family friend).

None of the three have any formal teaching qualifications at all.

So I'm not sure how they are better educated than state school teachers, who do have to undertake formal teaching qualifications as far as I am aware?

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The school that Xenia refers to is other worldly - there is no point in us making comparisons, it's all to do with DNA you see, and the Guardian and who does the washing up at home...

HC, I taught in a state school on the 'unqualified' regester, before I got my PGCE. Niether state nor private schools are totaly staffed with teachers with 'full' qualifications.

And not having a PGCE doesn't make you a bad teacher anyway!

Of course everyone makes mistakes - I wouldn't be angry with a teacher for making a mistake - but i would correct it. Teachers should be doing their best to get spelling and facts right, because they are teaching children and what they teach needs to be right. They should say "Oh look, I made a mistake here, I have now looked it up and it should be X, let's correct it." Thereby teaching children that mistakes happen but you can put them right.

I do realise I am going to be pedantic primary parent from hell

MB, I didn't know there was an unqualified register - is that for students training to be teachers, or can teachers be on it long term?

re "And not having a PGCE doesn't make you a bad teacher anyway!"

I agree, and two of my three unqualified, private sector friends are excellent teachers (the third is terrible, but that's another story! ), but I wanted to challenge Xenia's comment regarding private school teachers being better educated, as I simply don't believe that to be true.