Oh, that's pretty cr*p, Andrew. You surely have to understand the basics of
the subject?
Chris
On 24 Dec 2010, at 22:45, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> The latest and most disturbing trend reflects your demand that the emphasis
> is on delivery, not content. Teachers are being styled as 'classroom
> managers' and told that a good teacher can teach just about anything ('We're
> teachers of children, not subjects Andrew'). This is very convenient for the
> administration of course as then they don't have to match teachers and
> disciplines too carefully. It does mean that the new crop of teachers may be
> astonishingly ignorant of their subject but that's OK because hey you've got
> a textbook and you know how to teach, right? No point being brilliant at
> delivery if you don't understand it and you've got it wrong.
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