{"id":108,"date":"2017-09-18T18:37:01","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T18:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthew.somewhatunlikely.com\/?p=108"},"modified":"2017-09-18T18:37:01","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T18:37:01","slug":"training-first-fortnight-snippets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/somewhatunlikely.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/18\/training-first-fortnight-snippets\/","title":{"rendered":"Training, First Fortnight Snippets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few quick impressions\/thoughts\/observations from the first two weeks of being a trainee teacher. (I&#8217;ll try to be more organised and more coherent in future, particularly if anyone tells me they&#8217;re interested in reading it.)<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s not so bad to be back in university (plus this is my last full-time week before I&#8217;m in school at least 4 days in 5).<\/li>\n<li>I love how &#8216;meta&#8217; teacher training is, when the lecturers start &#8216;modelling&#8217; classroom management techniques by treating us like children.\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m not soon going to forget how annoying it is to have to stop conversation in a group activity just because the teacher wants your attention.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Teacher training starts out joyfully idealistic (there&#8217;s even research on trainee teachers&#8217; journey to jadedness).\n<ul>\n<li>Our subject knowledge lecturer seems especially keen to offer us certain ideals because &#8220;nobody else will&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m keen to see how these ideals are supposed to survive contact with school policies, not to mention parents and children.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It helps that a number of things that I&#8217;d hoped &#8211; held as articles of faith, even &#8211; turn out to be supported by research (each of these positions is simplified here: get in touch if you want to discuss more):\n<ul>\n<li>Everyone can learn maths: the idea that some people &#8220;don&#8217;t have a maths brain&#8221; isn&#8217;t supported by the research. You may be less well developed (especially if you haven&#8217;t been well taught before now) but it&#8217;s not because you can&#8217;t learn.<\/li>\n<li>The neurological differences between sexes are really quite small in the grand scheme of things; almost all sex\/gender-based &#8216;preferences&#8217; are socialised.\n<ul>\n<li>There are more significant biochemical differences, with substantial effects on behaviour. Spoilers: they don&#8217;t look good for males (although interestingly the prevalent higher level of serotonin in females is apparently being eroded by modern environmental factors).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>I have lots of tells:\n<ul>\n<li>One of my colleagues (in a school maths department) recognised me as a tabletop gamer because I referred to a six-sided die as a &#8216;d6&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>A trainee in a mixed group recognised me as a mathematician (see below) because I was writing in a square paper refill pad. Which I suppose is fair enough (although I originally bought the squared paper for tabletop gaming&#8230;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Only a minority of those in our maths group think of themselves as &#8216;mathematicians&#8217;. I was surprised; I&#8217;ve claimed that label since university because the outlook and way of thinking appealed to me, even though many I went to uni with were much better than me at actual maths (especially the exams).<\/li>\n<li>I thought I understood the dress code (but note to self: don&#8217;t wear a suit to Inset day), until one of my colleagues asked the head of department whether he was going to a job interview.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s probably it for the moment. 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