This blog will be a record of the students and my attempts to explore Islay and Jura in as many ways as possible
In small schools you take on many roles. One of mine is RME, another is Modern Studies ( as well as responibilitty for foreign languages, history and Gaelic; although none of these, thankfully, I have to teach). RME for S3-S6 is an occasional conference on a Friday afternoon. They don't yet have the option for Modern Studies in S3-S6, although I am considering it, I have enough hours from teaching in S1 and S2.
With Scottish indendance all over the newspapers and the TV over the last few weeks and a conference coming up it seemed time to let rip on the subject. However with my rather English English accent perhaps a full debate without getting the students properly involved would not be best. Having decided that a full debate should involve guests and students and should take place after the exams I deicded on a different approach - English Independence from Scotland!
I set the stage, the conference was on the morality of exams (thats what we told the kids) on the day of the conference notes went in registers saying the RME confrence was cancelled and that all students had to be in the hall for a special announcement at 2.15.
This was up on the screen..
The Head came in and read this statement
and each student was was handed a letter -
After telling them that a serious conference would be down to them at a later date we then did a whole group decision making exercise - the powerpoint and options are below.
I love being a geography teacher, but I am beginning to enjoy the other non management aspects of my job - I have a long way to go delivering to whole school - each time there is a mistake of organisation - this time it was forgetting to get the students to move into groups before we started the decision making exercise but I'll get there.
This blog will be a record of the students and my attempts to explore Islay and Jura in as many ways as possible
This blog will be a record of the students and my attempts to explore Islay and Jura in as many ways as possible
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