Category Archives: Teaching

My experiences of teaching. These are all bound to be positive, aren’t they?

A day off

Posted on March 5, 2009 by Colm

So, it’s Thursday night. I wasn’t teaching today, the school was closed for an inservice training day. I didn’t have to go, but the teachers were being given a lecture on Assessment for Learning, and it probably would have been … Continue reading →

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Teaching Week 2

Posted on March 2, 2009 by Colm

So, I have finished my first day of the second week of teaching practice. I was pretty happy with my progress last Friday, some classes went well, some not so well, but overall I thought the week went well. Today’s … Continue reading →

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Late night?

Posted on February 22, 2009 by Colm

I’m starting to panic now, I think. Tomorrow is my first day of teaching practice. I am trying to get a lesson plan done for my double class with the first years. A nice little topic – Separating Mixtures. Problem … Continue reading →

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Teaching

Posted on February 1, 2009 by Colm

I’m just watching a late movie on TV – Finding Forrester. I was struck by something Sean Connery’s character just said: A bittery disappointed teacher can be either very effective, or very dangerous. He was referring to a teacher who … Continue reading →

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