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Original post by Airfairy
Ugh that sounds a lot! Interesting that you get 90 masters credits. Are you on a pgde?
Good luck with your full timetable. How many hours is that for you?
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Good luck with your full timetable. How many hours is that for you?
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Yup. I'm pgde. It's worth it in the long run I guess but for now I'm exhausted.
I move to 14 hours teaching and three observing/assisting. I've never taught more than 5 hours a week before so I'm so scared to mess it all up!
Original post by ParadoxSocks
Yup. I'm pgde. It's worth it in the long run I guess but for now I'm exhausted.
I move to 14 hours teaching and three observing/assisting. I've never taught more than 5 hours a week before so I'm so scared to mess it all up!
I move to 14 hours teaching and three observing/assisting. I've never taught more than 5 hours a week before so I'm so scared to mess it all up!
Youd be suprised how easy the extra teaching hours are to pick up, im on a two week timetable so i do 11 hours week a and 10 hours week b teaching, plus 25 minutes pd monday to thursday for a tutor group plus about 5 hours observing a week.
When i saw my timetable i was like oh c*#p but actually you slide into it quite comfortably because you just learn to work around it
Original post by ParadoxSocks
Yup. I'm pgde. It's worth it in the long run I guess but for now I'm exhausted.
I move to 14 hours teaching and three observing/assisting. I've never taught more than 5 hours a week before so I'm so scared to mess it all up!
I move to 14 hours teaching and three observing/assisting. I've never taught more than 5 hours a week before so I'm so scared to mess it all up!
Wow! On a two week timetable it;s easy
I was doing 16 solo hours by the end of placement 1 and it made me feel more like a proper teacher.
Original post by Ratchit99
Youd be suprised how easy the extra teaching hours are to pick up, im on a two week timetable so i do 11 hours week a and 10 hours week b teaching, plus 25 minutes pd monday to thursday for a tutor group plus about 5 hours observing a week.
When i saw my timetable i was like oh c*#p but actually you slide into it quite comfortably because you just learn to work around it
When i saw my timetable i was like oh c*#p but actually you slide into it quite comfortably because you just learn to work around it
I'm a one week timetable but with two shortened days a week and on those days I work with my form for PSE for 35 minutes. I have 6 frees in total. I guess it's just getting into the swing of it.
Original post by Samus2
Wow! On a two week timetable it;s easy
I was doing 16 solo hours by the end of placement 1 and it made me feel more like a proper teacher.
I was doing 16 solo hours by the end of placement 1 and it made me feel more like a proper teacher.
My first placement school were very reluctant to hand over classes to trainees so I feel like I'm playing catchup. I'm starting to feel less like I'm faking it now and I'm feeling much more like a teacher.
Had a teacher out me as a trainee to the form I'm working. I'll be teaching them next week so I'm not too happy about that. Everyone else in the school knows I'm just a standard teacher so I think that's helping to make me feel like I can do this but I'm terrified that my form group are going to be dreadful in their lesson with me
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Original post by ParadoxSocks
Yup. I'm pgde. It's worth it in the long run I guess but for now I'm exhausted.
I move to 14 hours teaching and three observing/assisting. I've never taught more than 5 hours a week before so I'm so scared to mess it all up!
I move to 14 hours teaching and three observing/assisting. I've never taught more than 5 hours a week before so I'm so scared to mess it all up!
Original post by ParadoxSocks
I'm a one week timetable but with two shortened days a week and on those days I work with my form for PSE for 35 minutes. I have 6 frees in total. I guess it's just getting into the swing of it.
My first placement school were very reluctant to hand over classes to trainees so I feel like I'm playing catchup. I'm starting to feel less like I'm faking it now and I'm feeling much more like a teacher.
Had a teacher out me as a trainee to the form I'm working. I'll be teaching them next week so I'm not too happy about that. Everyone else in the school knows I'm just a standard teacher so I think that's helping to make me feel like I can do this but I'm terrified that my form group are going to be dreadful in their lesson with me
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My first placement school were very reluctant to hand over classes to trainees so I feel like I'm playing catchup. I'm starting to feel less like I'm faking it now and I'm feeling much more like a teacher.
Had a teacher out me as a trainee to the form I'm working. I'll be teaching them next week so I'm not too happy about that. Everyone else in the school knows I'm just a standard teacher so I think that's helping to make me feel like I can do this but I'm terrified that my form group are going to be dreadful in their lesson with me
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Similar to what I will be teaching in a couple of weeks. I feel the same as your with my first placement, as my school held back a bit. I only taught 6 hours a week and that was only for a couple of weeks, so to go from that, to managing a 14 hour timetable will be tough. But like someone said above, I'm thinking we will adapt to it quickly!
It doesn't sound like much when you put it as only 6 frees! I did all my work in my frees in first placement and managed to keep my weekends to myself. I guess this is the part where I lose all my time
. Let us know how you get on anyway.
Original post by ParadoxSocks
I'm a one week timetable but with two shortened days a week and on those days I work with my form for PSE for 35 minutes. I have 6 frees in total. I guess it's just getting into the swing of it.
My first placement school were very reluctant to hand over classes to trainees so I feel like I'm playing catchup. I'm starting to feel less like I'm faking it now and I'm feeling much more like a teacher.
Had a teacher out me as a trainee to the form I'm working. I'll be teaching them next week so I'm not too happy about that. Everyone else in the school knows I'm just a standard teacher so I think that's helping to make me feel like I can do this but I'm terrified that my form group are going to be dreadful in their lesson with me
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My first placement school were very reluctant to hand over classes to trainees so I feel like I'm playing catchup. I'm starting to feel less like I'm faking it now and I'm feeling much more like a teacher.
Had a teacher out me as a trainee to the form I'm working. I'll be teaching them next week so I'm not too happy about that. Everyone else in the school knows I'm just a standard teacher so I think that's helping to make me feel like I can do this but I'm terrified that my form group are going to be dreadful in their lesson with me
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Trust me, the kids know that you're a trainee, regardless of whether or not they've explicitly been told! - if you can deliver solid lessons and you can make your lessons accessible, they won't act up.
A lot of trainee teachers even have student teacher or PGCE on their badges
Original post by ParadoxSocks
I'm terrified because next week I jump up from teaching 4 or 5 lessons a week to my full timetable (minus my 2 year 7 classes). Planning to use today to blast out my lesson plans, create my planner and start structuring my essay that's due Friday.
I have two essays plus a mini research dissertation but that's for a total of 90 masters credits. We have formative tasks while on placement - 13 tasks in all. They're the worst part of it for me because it's things like find the SENCO and have an interview and critically evaluate the use of an interactive whiteboard and it's just little things that add so much time to arrange when I could be planning my lessons or observing.
I have two essays plus a mini research dissertation but that's for a total of 90 masters credits. We have formative tasks while on placement - 13 tasks in all. They're the worst part of it for me because it's things like find the SENCO and have an interview and critically evaluate the use of an interactive whiteboard and it's just little things that add so much time to arrange when I could be planning my lessons or observing.
This sounds a lot like my course, but we're PGCE rather than PGCDE. In fact, it sounded so similar that I nearly asked if we were at the same uni! We also get 90 credits.
You will manage the jump, it's not as bad as it seems.
I know how you feel though, next placement we are moving from teaching 50% to 80% (full NQT timetable) which is intimidating! It'll all be fine though.Original post by ParadoxSocks
I'm terrified because next week I jump up from teaching 4 or 5 lessons a week to my full timetable (minus my 2 year 7 classes). Planning to use today to blast out my lesson plans, create my planner and start structuring my essay that's due Friday.
I have two essays plus a mini research dissertation but that's for a total of 90 masters credits. We have formative tasks while on placement - 13 tasks in all. They're the worst part of it for me because it's things like find the SENCO and have an interview and critically evaluate the use of an interactive whiteboard and it's just little things that add so much time to arrange when I could be planning my lessons or observing.
I have two essays plus a mini research dissertation but that's for a total of 90 masters credits. We have formative tasks while on placement - 13 tasks in all. They're the worst part of it for me because it's things like find the SENCO and have an interview and critically evaluate the use of an interactive whiteboard and it's just little things that add so much time to arrange when I could be planning my lessons or observing.
Oh the good old days! This is the part people don't see. I am now a teacher but English as a Foreign Langugage and those teachers also have to go a teaching practise much the same but with less teaching hours and more essays and lectures as it is both parts piled into one course. It is very intensive and I can see why many drop out of the course but for me who had been through a QTS degree I found it intensive but nowhere near Teaching Practise on my degree.
My friends think it is the same then I explained about all the meetings, the hours we have to plan for, other work around the side, evidence for standards, lesson evaluations, weekly evaluations, putting in all the paperwork needed for the folders, etc. Then they started to understand!
Just hold on put yourself. You will probably want to collapse forever afterwards but it will be all over long enough. Just set daily and weekly goals/aims. Just don't let time slip by and make the most of every second you have.
I managed to do absolutely nothing today except for building a robot to use with one of my classes.
Should probably start the 3000 word essay and/or plan some lessons tonight so that I can at least see my parents and sister tomorrow evening! My youngest sister has spent the day sending photos from wherever she's being galivanting to all week because she knows I'm stuck at home with a tonne of work to do.
I really need to start planning in time to drop in on my family. We haven't even managed to celebrate my engagement yet
Should probably start the 3000 word essay and/or plan some lessons tonight so that I can at least see my parents and sister tomorrow evening! My youngest sister has spent the day sending photos from wherever she's being galivanting to all week because she knows I'm stuck at home with a tonne of work to do.
I really need to start planning in time to drop in on my family. We haven't even managed to celebrate my engagement yet
Do you teach abroad or in the UK? Have you done a degree in TEFL?
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Original post by Sportycb
Oh the good old days! This is the part people don't see. I am now a teacher but English as a Foreign Langugage and those teachers also have to go a teaching practise much the same but with less teaching hours and more essays and lectures as it is both parts piled into one course. It is very intensive and I can see why many drop out of the course but for me who had been through a QTS degree I found it intensive but nowhere near Teaching Practise on my degree.
My friends think it is the same then I explained about all the meetings, the hours we have to plan for, other work around the side, evidence for standards, lesson evaluations, weekly evaluations, putting in all the paperwork needed for the folders, etc. Then they started to understand!
Just hold on put yourself. You will probably want to collapse forever afterwards but it will be all over long enough. Just set daily and weekly goals/aims. Just don't let time slip by and make the most of every second you have.
My friends think it is the same then I explained about all the meetings, the hours we have to plan for, other work around the side, evidence for standards, lesson evaluations, weekly evaluations, putting in all the paperwork needed for the folders, etc. Then they started to understand!
Just hold on put yourself. You will probably want to collapse forever afterwards but it will be all over long enough. Just set daily and weekly goals/aims. Just don't let time slip by and make the most of every second you have.
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Hi all,
I'm torn between PGCE and schools direct at the moment so I was just wondering - the parts inbetween placement where you're based within the university for the theory side of things, how are those delivered? Do you have lectures or set work to do etc?
I'm torn between PGCE and schools direct at the moment so I was just wondering - the parts inbetween placement where you're based within the university for the theory side of things, how are those delivered? Do you have lectures or set work to do etc?
Original post by Tegan006
Hi all,
I'm torn between PGCE and schools direct at the moment so I was just wondering - the parts inbetween placement where you're based within the university for the theory side of things, how are those delivered? Do you have lectures or set work to do etc?
I'm torn between PGCE and schools direct at the moment so I was just wondering - the parts inbetween placement where you're based within the university for the theory side of things, how are those delivered? Do you have lectures or set work to do etc?
Personally, i couldn't have done schools direct - the amount of support I've received from University tutors has kept me sane!
I was on placement monday-thurs and then university on fridays. We have set lectures (professional and curriculum) studies on these days and then we are expected to do reading for the sessions, talk through various things etc. And then we have 3, 4,000 word essays to complete over the year.
Original post by Samus2
Personally, i couldn't have done schools direct - the amount of support I've received from University tutors has kept me sane!
This.
To answer the question, I'm on a pgce and the uni bits are mostly seminar groups (around 20 people though so quite big) with some lectures. 9-4. Sounds strange from being in undergrad 6 hours a week but it easily gets filled.
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Original post by Tegan006
Hi all,
I'm torn between PGCE and schools direct at the moment so I was just wondering - the parts inbetween placement where you're based within the university for the theory side of things, how are those delivered? Do you have lectures or set work to do etc?
I'm torn between PGCE and schools direct at the moment so I was just wondering - the parts inbetween placement where you're based within the university for the theory side of things, how are those delivered? Do you have lectures or set work to do etc?
It will vary massively between providers. SD people accredited at the university I do a PGCE at (IoE) have identical structure and support to us on the PGCE. We have 2 5000 word essays throughout the year, a lot of tasks assessed by completion, lesson plans etc. to evidence the standards. As well as this, we have professional lectures for everyone training to be a teacher and subject sessions focusing on things in your specialism(s).
Original post by Tegan006
Hi all,
I'm torn between PGCE and schools direct at the moment so I was just wondering - the parts inbetween placement where you're based within the university for the theory side of things, how are those delivered? Do you have lectures or set work to do etc?
I'm torn between PGCE and schools direct at the moment so I was just wondering - the parts inbetween placement where you're based within the university for the theory side of things, how are those delivered? Do you have lectures or set work to do etc?
At my universities there is a mix of taught foundation subjects and core subjects. There are also lectures on professional issues and lots of opportunities to visit schools and teach 1:1. You also have some assignments to do and workbooks to complete but I imagine this is similar for SD anyway.
I forgot to add, both SD and 'core' PGCE students on my course are treated exactly the same way and taught the same. The only difference is in name.
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At my uni the SD group are mixed in with us sometimes but they mostly have their wider context teaching delivered by their schools. We have some of it within school but we have additional seminars too so we have more contact and support from within the university.
It's entirely dependent on where you go.
It's entirely dependent on where you go.
Original post by Tegan006
Hi all,
I'm torn between PGCE and schools direct at the moment so I was just wondering - the parts inbetween placement where you're based within the university for the theory side of things, how are those delivered? Do you have lectures or set work to do etc?
I'm torn between PGCE and schools direct at the moment so I was just wondering - the parts inbetween placement where you're based within the university for the theory side of things, how are those delivered? Do you have lectures or set work to do etc?
Im on a PGCE. We're in classes two days and placement the other three (or suppose to be anyway).
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Writing a critical evaluation of progress in four of the TS is the most awkward thing in the world.
I'd much rather be writing my lesson plans!
I'd much rather be writing my lesson plans!
Original post by sunfowers01
If that is directed to me, I don't teach in the UK. I dropped QTS in my 3rd year (of a 4 year PE QTS course), due to falling out with my mentor and losing my confidence.... long story!
After I graduated in 2012 I started working at an English language summer camp, loved it, and did the CELTA course (most known TEFL course).
Now I teach at a small private language school in Lisbon, Portugal. I love living and teaching abroad.
I don't want to rub it in, but what I love is all the things I love about teaching I have, the things I hated about teaching during my degree and teaching practises I don't have to do here.
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