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kosherOY · **Posted:** Fri Aug 28, 2009 5:58 pm

Koshers memoirs....continued...After the "red wine day" I returned to Leicester Sink High............ yawn2

TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Fri Aug 28, 2009 6:04 pm

kosherOY wrote:

We took an inner city primary and turned it around ( the donkey work began two years ago ) I went in as a secondary teacher and experimented on teaching 9-11 year olds at KS3 level (basically 13 year old level) even got them to do some GCSE stuff in maths. The results have rocketed up to and including the last SATs results. We got the community involved built allotment,play area,wild garden with pond,sensory garden and redecorated. One class tackled Shakespeare and then ended up wowing the RSC (they came in to watch) we took the play on the road , onto the radio and into the news papers. We have achieved 0% behaviour problems with kids who have every reason to kick off. We do adult education for parents and others. We train our football team with the local non league club. We send selected rugby players to Leicester Tigers for coaching and send our parents there to watch free night matches with their kids. We are about to twin with a school in Finland. We are taking our first trip to France next year.

The local authority has watched a school go from the real depths to one which continually suprises everyone. Our kids love the place and their parents are constantly telling us how they (the kids) can't wait to get back to school. You can teach GCSE to younger kids when they are buzzing like this. We ensure that science is taught with plenty of practical demo's , the more fun the more the work rate goes up. People visit our school and think there are no kids ! When they go into a classroom the kids stand for them. The classrooms are individually decorated ( I have a full sized Tardis..excellent for English lessons) and have state of the art kit to use .

We now want to carry on with our own curriculum which is suited to OUR kids and works , basically thats what ALL schools will be doing soon !

kosherOY · **Posted:** Fri Aug 28, 2009 6:11 pm

Hee hee

I havn't changed much either !

Mampi Swift · **Posted:** Fri Aug 28, 2009 7:40 pm

Mr Ripper wrote:

kosherOY wrote:

In the case of Dyslexia I have found that schools generally cope well with,and provide well ,for students . I have taught a number of gifted students at History GCSE level and they have gone on to university. Like you Compo some Dyslexic students go on to achieve well at university and the modern workplace is (usually) equipped to allow them to do their job.
When I was at university we had a chap who was training to be a teacher and was Dyslexic...his historic knowledge and teaching ideas were second to none! Certainly he would struggle writing on a board, but the modern classroom is well set up for teachers like him and has all manner of "gismo's" (laptop powered boards and inter-active boards). However I must add that he was going to teach in a Dyslexic school, clearly he would struggle in mainstream. That said ,in my time ,I have found Dyslexic students ALWAYS have a skill...usually artistic which can put them right at the top of the class in that area.
As for grammar,well that is another ball game altogether. Even the BBC is ,at times, guilty of "dumbing down" TV to the point that children get mixed messages. ou can add into that "youth-speak", "music", "U.S influence", "texting", and even their parents early (bad)influences !
In short then...Dyslexia SHOULD NOT be a social/work/educational barrier. Grammar is a continuing battle zone in schools !

And there ends today's sermon from the man who has been brainwashed by the establishment.

Speaking of grammar, you've just commited cardinal sin number one right there! :wink:

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

Well done to compo for taking on the old fogies, regardless of the result, he fought a good fight...

Mampi Swift · **Posted:** Fri Aug 28, 2009 7:48 pm

Yubep wrote:

Well done to compo for taking on the old fogies, regardless of the result, he fought a good fight...

Snowy is preparing the cartoon as we speak!

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 36355

Compo fought his corner, good on him. Pity about that young fogey Yubep though, trust the big debate to happen in the middle of his paper round.... Kids eh? :roll:

Tell you what Mampi, I can visualise an half decnt cartoon coming out of this ........ :wink:

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Sun Aug 30, 2009 10:51 am

Mampi Swift wrote:

Mr Ripper wrote:

kosherOY wrote:

In the case of Dyslexia I have found that schools generally cope well with,and provide well ,for students . I have taught a number of gifted students at History GCSE level and they have gone on to university. Like you Compo some Dyslexic students go on to achieve well at university and the modern workplace is (usually) equipped to allow them to do their job.
When I was at university we had a chap who was training to be a teacher and was Dyslexic...his historic knowledge and teaching ideas were second to none! Certainly he would struggle writing on a board, but the modern classroom is well set up for teachers like him and has all manner of "gismo's" (laptop powered boards and inter-active boards). However I must add that he was going to teach in a Dyslexic school, clearly he would struggle in mainstream. That said ,in my time ,I have found Dyslexic students ALWAYS have a skill...usually artistic which can put them right at the top of the class in that area.
As for grammar,well that is another ball game altogether. Even the BBC is ,at times, guilty of "dumbing down" TV to the point that children get mixed messages. ou can add into that "youth-speak", "music", "U.S influence", "texting", and even their parents early (bad)influences !
In short then...Dyslexia SHOULD NOT be a social/work/educational barrier. Grammar is a continuing battle zone in schools !

And there ends today's sermon from the man who has been brainwashed by the establishment.

Speaking of grammar, you've just commited cardinal sin number one right there! :wink:

Are you sure?

kosherOY · **Posted:** Mon Aug 31, 2009 9:14 pm

A tick and a merit point for master Ripper :grin:

born toulouse · **Posted:** Mon Aug 31, 2009 10:45 pm

Don't want to be overly blunt here Kosher but:

1. Name the school where your methods are rolling back the frontiers of achievement for disadvantaged kids.
2. Give some sort of verifiable evidence to back up the claimed "miracle" improvement.
3. Name the place where you made your heroic red wine stand against crap teachers.

If you can't, or won't, do these things then nobody should take your claims seriously.

If you can back your claims up then we should all be urging you on in your quest to save Britain's youth. If you can't substantiate your claims we should ignore you until you apologise for being a knob and promise to stick to football in future.

Spender · **Posted:** Tue Sep 01, 2009 8:31 am

When you've finished your in depth investigation Mr Toulouse, do share the results with us. confised

kosherOY · **Posted:** Tue Sep 01, 2009 11:45 am

Spender..I believe I had RESPONDED to a question on the post. Can't say I ever used the word "miracle" either,though am glad you have lad. As for frontiers and rolling, well it was more those clever Americans that implanted the idea, but you never know ? As for the "red wine" school...well it could be any one of about six crap Leicester inner city schools ! The GTCE don't allow me to name and shame on a public site as they will have me before one of their GTCE kangaroo courts! (Mores the pity) !!!

Yubep · **Joined:** Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:35 pm **Posts:** 25266

If you we're in the local paper for doing so well at a school then surely you could mention it?

kosherOY · **Posted:** Tue Sep 01, 2009 1:13 pm

I can mention the school Iam at...just not the "red wine" one !

born toulouse · **Posted:** Tue Sep 01, 2009 1:17 pm

Kosher,

It doesn't seem likely that the GTCE would be monitoring the Bunker but I can see your point about possibly getting into bother so fair enough on the wine issue.

I don't think they have any rules about being positive about your own work though and, as Yubep says, it is already public so they can't complain there either. I'm genuinely interested because I used to be a teacher and one of the reasons I left was the endless initiatives that were meant to lead to huge improvements but often just distracted people from the real issues. They were usually touted around by self declared experts riding on the school improvement gravy train, supported by a government who liked to beat up teachers and well-intentioned enthusiasts who found it worked for them but didn't look at the bigger picture.

I'm not saying that this applies to you but, as you are being pretty strong in your condemnation of other schools and teachers, I'd like a bit of evidence to look at please.

I don't think that's an investigation Mr Spender, just a common sense approach to deciding whether you agree with somebody.

kosherOY · **Posted:** Tue Sep 01, 2009 1:51 pm

Best not advertise the school....could be jumped on by some nutter (not that I believe this site has any) but you never know! That said Iam in complete agreement about the "self declared experts" and government bullying. Our school has stepped out of the national curriculum ,like others before it, and is now delivering a curriculum package suited to our kids and the local community. The government has (at last) allowed schools to do this except our headteacher acted before Ed Balls !
As for condemnation of other teachers/schools....it's more the increasing amount of unqualified "coversupervisors" and bad teachers that there seems to be in this part of the world (Midlands) . It is a serious issue and one parents are willing to move catchment areas to avoid. I met one graduate in a Midlands comp once who had been sent by an agency to "sample the classroom" the school had differing ideas and tried to get him to run a "Health and social care GCSE" module !!! The TDA is also "aggessively" coaxing professionals from the city into teaching via ads on TV and on its website....shocking!

kosherOY · **Posted:** Tue Sep 01, 2009 7:28 pm

http://www.tda.gov.uk/Recruit/becominga ... ching.aspx BASTARDS !!!!

Spender · **Posted:** Wed Sep 02, 2009 7:26 am

kosherOY wrote:

Spender..I believe I had RESPONDED to a question on the post. Can't say I ever used the word "miracle" either,though am glad you have lad. As for frontiers and rolling, well it was more those clever Americans that implanted the idea, but you never know ? As for the "red wine" school...well it could be any one of about six crap Leicester inner city schools ! The GTCE don't allow me to name and shame on a public site as they will have me before one of their GTCE kangaroo courts! (Mores the pity) !!!

Whoa, whoa, whoa.......I was inferring that it was nowt to do with Mr Toulouse and it was a bit up front to ask the questions in such a manner.. confised

I'm not convinced that making allegations, however true, about public institutions is a wise course of action either.

born toulouse · **Posted:** Wed Sep 02, 2009 2:33 pm

I can see what you mean about the way I put the questions, I'd had a few Leffes. Didn't mean to be rude. I think it is just as much my business as anybody else's though- I've got friends who still teach and they get loads of stick based on ill-informed "insider" comment. Kosher might well be absolutely right but, given that he's laying in to quite a lot of other people, he should really back it up or leave out the criticisms.

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