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September 14, 2018
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Category Archives: 1 Prof. Values & Personal Commitment
September 14, 2018
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Growing up a teacher
“Because no two days are the same”‘ almost every teacher has said this when asked about one of the main reasons they love their job- and it’s undoubtedly one of the reasons I want to become a primary school teacher. In the classroom experience I have had, I have learned that this statement is definitely […] Continue reading
September 13, 2018
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Why did I choose to become a teacher?
For the past few years, I have known that working with children was the career path I wanted to follow. Completing a one year HNC in Childhood Practice affirmed this belief. Having experience of working with children during their nursery transition phase and seeing the enjoyment, and confidence, they can gain from joining school as […] Continue reading
September 13, 2018
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Policewoman, Hairdresser, Pilot or Teacher? – 6 year old me
Teaching in any environment is something that isn’t just a job. No matter how long you are teaching for, whether it’s 5 minutes or 5 hours, you will still have some sort of impact on a person’s life and that is what amazes me. It could be school related or something completely random but to […] Continue reading
September 13, 2018
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Every Day’s A School Day…
…and this has been especially true of the last couple of weeks! As a (numerically) mature student with no prior experience or family history of University life a new world has been revealed to me. Throughout my life I have worked in a variety of jobs, most recently 16 years as an outdoor educator. My […] Continue reading
September 13, 2018
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‘Teaching… What’s the big deal?’
I used to have the same confused question racing in loops around my little head as mum was at her wit’s end running about packing schoolbags, making up an A-class packed lunch fit for 3 as quickly as I could count to 20 (which, by the way, was an impressive time for a 6 year …
May 8, 2018
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End of Placement Review
May 8, 2018
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References
Hinnant, L. (2012). School schedule: Reforming traditions in France. [Website]. The Christian Science Monitor. Available at: https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Family/2012/1005/School-schedule-Reforming-traditions-in-France [Accessed 21/03/18]. Ditton, H. (2016). Why do the French take such long lunch breaks? [Website]. The Local. Available at: https://www.thelocal.fr/20160428/why-do-the-french-take-such-long-lunch-breaks [Accessed 28/03/18]. n.b. (2018). Laïcité. [Website]. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laïcité Accessed [12/03/18]. Frenchentree Staff. (2017). La France : un état Laïque. [Website]. Available at: https://www.frenchentree.com/living-in-france/culture/la-france-un-etat-laique/ Accessed [12/03/18]. Scottish Government. (2011). . […] Continue reading
May 8, 2018
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Further Learning
I feel that from this placement further learning can be developed. Since my placement was in France and it involved speaking French and English I feel that my French can be further developed. This will be useful for teaching my future pupils. I aim to address this learning by regularly testing and practising my French […] Continue reading
May 8, 2018
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End of Placement Reflection
This placement has been a huge eye opener for me. I have learned and experienced so much while being here in France. From a professional perspective I have learned about other cultures/backgrounds in terms of ethnicity and nationality. There are a lot more ethnicities in French schools than there are visible in Scottish schools. Along […] Continue reading
April 20, 2018
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Values & Culture
Wednesdays The French have had a midweek break/half-day in primary schools on Wednesdays dating back to the 19th century. It is a government concession to the Roman Catholic Church, which wanted children to study the catechism (Catholic book) on their Wednesday afternoons off. In today’s secular (schools not connected with religion) France, Wednesdays afternoons are […] Continue reading
April 20, 2018
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Week 6: Day 30
20/04/18 Today is my last day at École Louise Michel. I’m very sad to leave as I’ve had such an amazing experience and enjoyed every minute of it. Today was also special as they had a carnival dress up day for my last day. I dressed up at Lilo for Lilo and Stitch and all […] Continue reading
April 20, 2018
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Week 6: Day 29
19/04/18 Today I was with Sylvie Lambert and her class CE2. Today there would be no canteen food so the pupils were supposed to have taken a packed lunch but many of them forgot it. The teacher then had to phone certain pupils parents to ask if they would take a packed lunch in for […] Continue reading
April 20, 2018
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Week 6: Day 28
18/04/18 Today we were not in our French school but rather we had an end of placement meeting with Nina Huss at the ESPE centre. At the meeting we discussed; how we felt our placement went, what we had noticed that was similar and different from schools in Scotland, if we felt we had integrated […] Continue reading
April 20, 2018
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Week 6: Day 27
17/04/18 Today I was with Axelle Holef in CE1. Axelle started the day by asking the children the day of the week and what day comes before and after today’s day. She then spoke about the weather and asked the children to describe it to her. She then started a mathematics lesson linked to a […] Continue reading
April 16, 2018
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Week 6: Day 26
16/04/18 Today I was in Benjamine Duplouy’s class, CP/CE1. They started off the day by assigning the classroom helper roles. Benjamine went down the list of roles and asked who would like to do them for this week. The children put up their hands if they wanted to do the job and Benjamine picked a […] Continue reading
April 16, 2018
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Week 5: Day 25
13/04/18 Today I was in Françoise Monclere’s class with CP. She started off the day by asking the children what the date was. She wrote it on the board as on of the pupils recited it out. She also had a pupil writing it on the board alongside her so that they could practice writing […] Continue reading
April 12, 2018
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Week 5: Day 24
12/04/18 Today I was in Benjamine Duplouy class with CP/CE1. I started off the day with an English lesson. My lesson contained teaching of the colours, animals and numbers form 0-10. I used two books to aid the teaching. The books were all in English. One was called ‘Spot Can Count” and was about numbers […] Continue reading
April 11, 2018
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Week 5: Day 23
11/04/18 Today I was in the nursery again and I brought a new song for the classes to learn today. I taught the classes a song to do with the days of the week so that they could learn the order of the days in English. I firstly went over the days of the week […] Continue reading
April 11, 2018
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Week 5: Day 22
10/04/18 Today I was with Sylvie Lambert and CE2. She started the day with asking the children to use a noun in a sentence with the colour blue, a verb in a sentence with the colour red and an adjective in a sentence with the colour green. I thought this was a good was to […] Continue reading
