kirkyboy Posted 1 February , 2005 Share Posted 1 February , 2005 hi there, I am in year nine and studying WW1 and i know more than the teacher. Do people think the teachers should have a wider rage of information. Kirkyboy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doogal Posted 1 February , 2005 Share Posted 1 February , 2005 Hi, ...sometimes. However, its not purely the amount of knowledge - they are teachers, and as such should be able to facilitate learning and analysis. My point is that learning should be more than a memory test. regards doogal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trenchwalker Posted 1 February , 2005 Share Posted 1 February , 2005 hi there, I am in year nine and studying WW1 and i know more than the teacher. Do people think the teachers should have a wider rage of information. Kirkyboy. ahha i remeber those days aswell but now i work wwith my teachers and once a year i get togged up in kharki and wander in rifle in hand and tlk to the kids the teachers love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desmond7 Posted 1 February , 2005 Share Posted 1 February , 2005 Re Teachers .... I suppose the average history teacher has his/her own special interest area and then brush up on subjects as they come along. I know that I would have loved to study the military aspects of WW1 in greater detail at school. Instead, I toiled through Marlborough's campaigns and the 100 years war ... anyone remember the Defenestration of _______ ? Name that city for 10 bonus points!!! Kirkyboy - I'm not a teacher - what's year nine? Lower sixth/upper sixth??? Des Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trenchwalker Posted 1 February , 2005 Share Posted 1 February , 2005 year nine ages 13 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doogal Posted 1 February , 2005 Share Posted 1 February , 2005 Hi Des 1419, Prague, then 1618, Thirty Years War.... regards doogal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desmond7 Posted 1 February , 2005 Share Posted 1 February , 2005 Doogal - which just goes to show how much I took in!!! Trench - cheers for info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doogal Posted 1 February , 2005 Share Posted 1 February , 2005 Yahoo!!!!!!!! .co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doogal Posted 1 February , 2005 Share Posted 1 February , 2005 I know that I would have loved to study the military aspects of WW1 in greater detail at school. I recall A'Level History relishing the approaching First World War topic. Now, I still can't figure this out, and I struggled then, but for the whole term, we covered this war, and not one single battle was mentioned. Not even the Somme. Now that's an achievement. regards doogal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eviltaxman Posted 1 February , 2005 Share Posted 1 February , 2005 once a year i get togged up in kharki and wander in rifle in hand and tlk to the kids the teachers love it. Trenchie..... I'd love to go to work, rifle in hand I don't think teachers need to have a lot of knowledge.... I think that came out wrong!!... What I mean is that some teach more than one subject, so trying to cram all that info into their heads must hurt I suppose once kids get to "Senior School" than they get a different teacher for each subject. You can't really have the French teacher trying to teach algebra (unless it's in French). Les. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sapper6 Posted 2 February , 2005 Share Posted 2 February , 2005 Here is a quote exactly as written, shown to me by a friend who is a history teacher, last year, about WW1 from a New Zealand student. " The ANDZACKS fought Germans and Somme lost a batle but one the war. It lasted frum 1914 till Vetnam." That is a true copy of part of an essay and the student was 16. The rest is worserer. ( students grammer not mine) . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carninyj Posted 2 February , 2005 Share Posted 2 February , 2005 A friend of mine, an ex-teacher, referring to the same thing as Sapper6, drew my attention to the current advertisement on British TV for literacy courses, the one with the horrible little gremlin. He wondered what it was supposed to achieve. He pointed out that some people cannot master such basic skills – we have a lovely little woman at work who cannot read and who cannot even tell the time from a clock – and for them additional tuition is pointless. However, for the rest, the vast majority, they have had a minimum of 14 years at school to master the basics and they have the intelligence to do so. Why haven’t they learned, he wonders. Is it laziness, bad behaviour, truancy, etc.? Instead of throwing more taxpayers money at them, he thinks the rest of us should be asking them to refund the taxpayer! While I don’t subscribe to his last point, I do wonder why my son’s 91 year old grandfather, who left school at 13, is so much better educated. regards Carninyj Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirkyboy Posted 3 February , 2005 Author Share Posted 3 February , 2005 " The ANDZACKS fought Germans and Somme lost a batle but one the war. It lasted frum 1914 till Vetnam." That is a true copy of part of an essay and the student was 16. What??????? Kirkyboy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Lees Posted 3 February , 2005 Share Posted 3 February , 2005 My son is now 12 but he probably knew more than his history teachers about the Great War when he was 10. He has visited the Western Front on numerous occasions, reads the same books as I do and asks questions about what he reads about and sees. He particularly enjoys the Battleground Europe series. I would love to be a fly on the wall when he gets to the Great War part of the syllabus in his school. I would especially like to hear what his history teacher says on his/her return to the staffroom after being corrected all the way through the lesson! Should I warn the teacher in advance? No, it's a learning experience! Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alison Arnold Posted 3 February , 2005 Share Posted 3 February , 2005 (edited) I would love to be a fly on the wall when he gets to the Great War part of the syllabus in his school. I would especially like to hear what his history teacher says on his/her return to the staffroom after being corrected all the way through the lesson! Should I warn the teacher in advance? No, it's a learning experience! Ken, It can be a bit embarassing at parents evening!! My 8 year old has a passion for farming when this came up as a topic last year his teacher told me she got a bit fed up of this little voice piping up "Miss you got that bit wrong" Lucky that don't study the Napleonic era as that is more his area than WW1 but I am dreading him getting to senior school!! Les, you can have a French teacher teaching algebra. My daughter had a PE teacher teaching top set Maths last week and its not his second subject!! All in all teachers have a hard enough job without us knocking them. A secondary school history teacher must be able to teach from years 8 -11 (age 11 - 16 ). They also don't have enough time to go into depth on a particular subject. Ali Edited 3 February , 2005 by Alibee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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