Differences in teaching
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Bringing things would depend on your content area, though, so before you ship, maybe ask? Just don't waste money or luggage space bringing useless resources.
For example, there's nothing I could use here from the materials I used in America. The GCSE essays that we have to teach for are very specific -- certain stories/plays/poems, and the criteria for marking is also VERY specific, so unless you somehow had to teach about the social/historical/cultural aspects of 'Much Ado', or examine language and structure of 'Island Man' and 'Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan', you're out of luck if you teach English here.
Better luck to those in other content areas.
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Don't worry though english teachers. My mentor for this past year is a very experienced english teacher and he showed me the list of objectives to be addressed at key stages 3 and 4. There are a lot fewer objectives for english than for subjects such as science. This makes long term planning a lot more do-able.
Science has about 7-9 class periods to cover a topic area (i.e. the solar system) with about 15 different objective at different levels to address during that short time. Long term or project planning is very difficult. It can get to be a bit overwhelming at times, especially when the classes have students in them ranging in ablily/background from sub-level 3 (very needy learner) to level 8+ (excellerated learner).
Also, it depends on what GCSE course of study your school buys into for key stage 4 as to what specifically you will have to teach. But the basics are the basics...you know what they are for your field...and those will definately carry over.
So pretty good luck for English teachers really...
(p.s. No, I can't explain why a new science teacher was paired with an English teacher even if he did teach a couple science classes this past year. They do that here by the way...I taught a class of democracy at the begining of the year.) |
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