TwickenhamCyclist
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Bit of a rant... one of our daughters is having a bit of a bad time with one of her teachers... she's in the first year of secondary school (year 7) and had a pile of detentions from said ICT (Information Communication Technology) teacher lately (one for clicking her pen open after been told to stop clicking it... she closed it, put it down and later on in the lesson the teacher told them to pick up their pens and write something down, she clicked it open and got told off (much to my amusement)). We got an email from said teacher today complaining about her behaviour. It was in pigeon English at best and complained about her getting out of her seat twice during a lesson and "asking strange question me".
Apparently they do about five minutes of ICT in her 45 min ICT lesson and are then told to get on with homework (from other classes) if they finish... according to daughter no1 she finished work in five minutes and went to join group doing homework and got told off for leaving her seat... went back to her seat and then asked the teacher if she could go and get her bag back from the homework table (the teacher said yes) so got up and walked over to get it and then got a bollocking for leaving he seat (we are guessing the teacher misunderstood). Finally they were going over the ICT homework and our daughter had been given four company logos to talk about. Three went well and then she spoke about one called 'drench', said "I notice you drink a lot of water during lessons and I think that's a good thing for hydration and your skin" and apparently got another bollocking (we are guessing that is the "asking strange question me" bit).
We questioned her when she got home and Daughter No2 (no 1's twin - and in a different half of the year) couldn't stop laughing and stuck up for her sibling stating said teacher was pretty much incomprehensible at best (none of us understand what she is saying most of the time and you get told off if you aske her what she is saying) and she just 'picks on people for no reason"... D2 would have no trouble dabbing D1 in in a heartbeat if she could, so one tends to believe her as well...
As a former teacher I understand children can be annoying (especially mine) and one might get the wrong end of the stick, and I'd normally stick up for the teacher but according to both daughters ICT lessons take on this model of short task followed by doing 'other' homework, which in itself beggs the question of is a decent lesson plan in place (what happened to decent follow on tasks)... then we have the matter of actually being able to understand the foreign teacher and s/he being able to understand the pupils...
Apparently they do about five minutes of ICT in her 45 min ICT lesson and are then told to get on with homework (from other classes) if they finish... according to daughter no1 she finished work in five minutes and went to join group doing homework and got told off for leaving her seat... went back to her seat and then asked the teacher if she could go and get her bag back from the homework table (the teacher said yes) so got up and walked over to get it and then got a bollocking for leaving he seat (we are guessing the teacher misunderstood). Finally they were going over the ICT homework and our daughter had been given four company logos to talk about. Three went well and then she spoke about one called 'drench', said "I notice you drink a lot of water during lessons and I think that's a good thing for hydration and your skin" and apparently got another bollocking (we are guessing that is the "asking strange question me" bit).
We questioned her when she got home and Daughter No2 (no 1's twin - and in a different half of the year) couldn't stop laughing and stuck up for her sibling stating said teacher was pretty much incomprehensible at best (none of us understand what she is saying most of the time and you get told off if you aske her what she is saying) and she just 'picks on people for no reason"... D2 would have no trouble dabbing D1 in in a heartbeat if she could, so one tends to believe her as well...
As a former teacher I understand children can be annoying (especially mine) and one might get the wrong end of the stick, and I'd normally stick up for the teacher but according to both daughters ICT lessons take on this model of short task followed by doing 'other' homework, which in itself beggs the question of is a decent lesson plan in place (what happened to decent follow on tasks)... then we have the matter of actually being able to understand the foreign teacher and s/he being able to understand the pupils...
