Spoon feeding lessons

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I am currently on PGCE. Every school I have been in most PPA lessons are just spoon feeding. For example I just observed a lesson of year six reading local landmarks from the board and this was "geography" they then went through a list and line by line wrote in answers as a class.

How is this education?

An early years teacher not seeing the value of play?!? Are you quite sure you're in the right job?

If you have a play based curriculum it seems odd to say stop playing kids and tidy up fir Golden Time!

An early years teacher not seeing the value of free play.
Lord, I'm glad you don't work in my school.

I was joking actually. My fault though, should have added a smiley, obviously. Here's many now in hindsight:

Then don't mrz

Allow golden time to flow naturally from free play! As after all that's all it is!

at my god daughters school, admittedly in Ireland, golden time isn't a behaviour nanagement system it's a universal 45 minutes on a Friday afternoon of free play they don't have to earn it. They do have other behaviour management systems, not linked to golden time.

As for keeping the kids quiet, your doing golden time wrong! I spent 5 years as a TA I'm an infant school in England and golden time was anything but quiet!

We don't ... We don't have Gokden Time our children behave without the threat of losing Golden Time

Then perhaps you need to look at the origins of Golden Time

Naught you should read the OP keeping children quiet in PPA by copying work off a board

I'm pleased too Iora if you stop children in Early Years continuous provision which obviously doesn't provide opportunities to talk to children and develop their language and social skills so have to do this in Golden Time

Mrz I would be very interested to know why you feel the need to be so unbearably smug on virtually every primary education thread I ever stumble upon....
Just wondering?

Nah, mrz. Every lesson is a language development opportunity. I'm just a believer in the use of free play as a language/imaginative/emotional development methodology.
Particularly in senior classes.

I die and I disagreed with that too if you read my posts

I did not I die obviously

Just wondering why you make it personal mama duck

So why assume I was talking about Golden Time when I said keeping kids quiet when I said "and" holding activities naughty?

Firstly, thanks for the first few posts that just attacked me for being an "uppity student" that's not at all judgemental. For those that also see GT as a pointless "behaviour tool" I agree also since the four schools I have been in I have NEVER seen sanctions followed through. I would LOVE to see this time used as others have described but I don't see "hand massage and colouring in" as such.

As for PPA cover. I see more and more of "we have to get this in your topic book to show we have done something" I can understand why it happens but it's dull as hell.

"Fortunately im not an uppity student but an uppity early years teacher"

Golden time isn't necessary in reception as they learn through play for so much of the day. A bit of child initiated learning does no harm in year 1 or even year 6.

But Golden Time isn't child initiated learning ...all too often it's a DVD

I don't think my ds's school ever has DVD for golden time. Every school must have different golden time...

www.circle-time.co.uk/faqs/golden-time

Golden Time is one of those school activities-along with free reading-which means completely different things in different schools. Which is why discussions about both on here usually descend into arguments as different posters are talking about different concepts which just happen to have the same name!!

www.mumsnet.com/SearchArch?mustmatch=Golden+time+dvd&dontmatch=&nickname=&src_displ_option=s_m_d_m&fromDate=&toDate=&topicmode=chs&chosentops=2403