My mentor is making a huge effort getting me involved in as much as possible. I am so grateful. Today we had a chat about doing a Scheme of Work for the Topic of the Olympics and Geography for the Year 7's and 8's. He gave me an example of how this is done - so a template to work from. It looks simple enough I think! So its for about 12 lessons, over 6 weeks or so. We are going to have a brain storming session soon. I am glad I am getting the chance to do this.
This morning I was chatting with a PSHE teacher - she was saying she has been a mentor for a few PGCE students. I asked her if she could run through the British system with me - there are so many acronyms being thrown around and I get really confused - things like GSCE and Key Stage, A levels, O levels... South Africa had a real basic system you either went private (IEB) or public (OBE)... all I new was that one was international and one was government. She spent a bit of time going through it all, referring me to the Department of Education's website where I could download the Standards for Teachers in the UK and also the Geography Curriculum.
I asked my mentor about curriculum, and the national curriculum and the schools curriulcum. He have me plenty of reading to do! I went home with heaps of information to get my head around. As well as the schools handbook! I find curriculum and the criteria and making links back to it all a little fuzzy!
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