foolfillment: the blog

is you you get told all the pitfalls to avoid, like talking for hours on end without bothering to try and engage the pupils, like making sure you’ve got all your resources working before you let the kids use them, like letting your class know what they’re supposed to be doing before you try to mark their work. And then you see all your lecturers demonstrating these things. I’m sure it’s all deliberate, to make us learn why we should avoid them. Maybe in later years they show what to do when things start to go wrong.

It’s not likely that the people I’m writing about will find this site, but there’s a link from my profile on the faculty’s notes database thingy to here so I should make it clear that on the whole the staff are very good, but you do get occasions when things aren’t exactly what you might expect from those who teach how to teach.

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