Monday, 1 June 2009

Co-ordination

I'm spending two days observing Modern Language teaching at another school similar to mine.

Ahh... the wonders of having a department that works together, that consists of teachers that don't bicker and whine and gossip behind each others' backs, but which form a team.

Co-ordination is key to good teaching. It's all very well being individually brilliant in the classroom, but you work much better when others around you work with you.

Positives include:
a) the sharing of resources
b) the sharing of ideas
c) dealing collectively with discipline problems
d) more fun
e) a higher profile for languages in the school
f) students across the same year group being set the same tests and the same homeworks.

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