Unteachables 9.00 tonight C4

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Should be interesting. A group of experts get to work with children who have been frequenly excluded. It had Ted Wragg among others.

I'll be interested to see how the 'progressives' do vs the 'traditionalists'.

SOOOO touched at that Zaak kid teaching in the primary school. Wasn't he brilliant? Really on the verge of tears watching that.

Me too - I so hope things work out for him.
Ryan and Kirsty were revelations too.

Saw this for the first time last night. Wish I'd seen the previous episodes. Zaak was brilliant - I wish all primary school teachers were as enthusiastic and energetic as him! Hope he goes on to do well.

first time i have ever watched this (stupidly at the end of the series). Who was the boy who was amazing with the little children? What a wonderful teacher he would make. I was only briefly watching as i was on here as usual!

Thought this was really interesting. HMB I don't know much about this VAKI system you mention, BUT it seemed so obvious that SOME of the more disruptive kids are intellegent, but that they have a 'different' type of intellegence. When a more practical high energy style of teaching was applied this engages kids who previously have been seen as thick. Most of those kids have got into a cycle of been seen as disruptive which means they must be stiupid, so they get no praise, stop believeing in themselves and get on a spiral which is difficult to break. This series showed that when you do praise kids, they respond. It is the same as toddler training (!) praise the good and ignore the bad. Zaak and Kirsty really seemed to blossom with this as they had HUGE self-confidence issues underneath the bluff. It was a shame Gemma (I think it was) got chucked out, she was just on the cusp of learning a lesson, but she did seem to have got something out of it all.

Does anyone remeber that other programme about 60's comprehensives? That had a lot of vocational/practical work that seems to be lost now. Some of the kids came out so well at bricklaying etc. Far better than a science qualification for a lot of people.

I agree it could be over done in a lot of ways, but the KIDS were not told what type of intelligence they had, just that they were intellegent and the teachers treated them as if they were. IYKWIM. Someone who is better 'hands-on' should IMO be given the opportunity to use that. Steer them towards bricklaying and practical subjects, they could soar.

Hi I no this post was from ten years ago wow! And I don't know if any of the users that posted still use this site but me and my brother Izaak was talking about this programme today so I decided to a little research, and as I read through the comment and was shocked to see all the nice things every one said about 'that zaak kid' lol and just to let everyone know he did go on to be a teacher and his kids love him.