| Teaching and the writing Culture |
| Teaching and the writing Culture |
Description: | Adviser discusses a way of helping to change the culture of English teaching. Collaborative mentoring in the classroom is proposed |
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Key Words: | writing, achievement, Angus |
Source: | Alastair Horne |
EA/Area: | Angus |
Priority: | 1. Achievement and Attainment |
Date added: | 28/01/2004 |
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File name: | AH_A008Teaching_Culture.mov |
| File size: | 268 KB | |
| Duration: | 1:03 | |
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Transcript for: Teaching and the writing Culture
Raising attainment in writing: the challenge of changing the 'teaching culture'
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Well you can't just go to them and say, 'this is how you do it', because they won't believe you. It requires quite a major departure from the culture of teaching that exists. Every subject has its own culture and it's perpetuated by children who admire a teacher in a subject and that's why they become a teacher of that subject and, as a result, English teaching has a culture of, as you say, produce the writing, get it marked and hand it back. How do you change it? I can't see a better way of changing it than going along to that teacher's classroom and working with them in whatever way. It might be modelling - and modelling is a very good way of doing it - and I think allows the teacher to see, but it's also in a sense coaching, where having modelled or having discussed, the teacher goes out in the classroom and does it. And because it's such a complex matter, the staff tutor or the mentor needs to be there to talk them through the different aspects of the work as they do it. I think that's the only way it can be done and it's labour intensive.
