Hi everyone
So it is the last day tomorrow and to be honest I have enjoyed it so much I don't want to leave!!
I taught some IT today which was great except I had to hold back from going into too much detail! I was teaching effective search engine use. The children seem to have really taken to me ("best teacher ever - all the others left after two days" is among the classics!) and have given me brilliant experience in handling their innappropriate questions about my life ("is your first name Dan?", "do you have a girlfriend?", "can I add you as a friend?" and what I get up to in such a way as to get out of doing work!
I have got some great experiences of SEN too with a boy with autism. One thing that really struck me was his range of intelligence yet inability to communicate effectively. He has been able to reel off abstract facts about massive ranges of subjects at any time but often without significance. For example we had a talk from the local vicar today and the boy at the end of the prayer towards of the end of the talk, put his hand up, struggled with his words briefly before asking the vicar an intelligent question about evolution and his beliefs to which the vicar did not know how to respond.
I enjoyed being involved in focusing the attention of the class also. I have found the more the class warmed to me, the easier it was for me to show brief dissappointment in them for not listening and get a great effect in directing their attention back to the teacher. They begun to listen when I told them what they should be doing.
Anyway I am absolutely shattered so am keeping this one brief, will probably detail a few more of the things I have been doing when I am less sleepy!
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