Just at the ‘Our Manchester, Our Supplementary Schools Conference hosted by Manchester City Council. pic.twitter.com/KsyZ4SGN6W
— Revelation Kollektiv (@revkollektiv) December 9, 2017
We were invited to deliver workshops on teacher training for supplementary school teachers. Here are some of the insights we gained from the participants:
Teacher Training Workshop for Supplementary School Educators
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A prelude…..A little twitter conversation about Teacher Training (mainstream)
Me: Are our supp school teachers fully aware of wider the political significance of their supp school teaching? Do we need2incl this in ITT?
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In what sense?
— Branwen Bingle (@BranwenBingle) December 9, 2017
In the sense of promoting mother tongue language as a pedagogic accomp to Eng lang as a political statement of benefits of multicult’
— Revelation Kollektiv (@revkollektiv) December 9, 2017
Language and culture as part of pedagogy making anti imperial statement by providing counter narrative2mainstream curriculum
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Teacher training needing to explicitly discuss and explore this aspect of pedagogy and cultural citizenry (contested ideas in themselves)
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For a while this was absolutely part of it: my training degree in the 90s valued home languages and encouraged me to explore multicultural aspect. Masters Education encouraged exploration of political. Imo this is part of reason for current narrow curriculum: fear challenge
— Branwen Bingle (@BranwenBingle) December 9, 2017
We discuss political ideology as part of ITT in relation to policy etc. But get pushback from students who just want us to focus on exactly what to do in classroom: quite mechanistic. Not all, but many…
— Branwen Bingle (@BranwenBingle) December 9, 2017
Brilliant that you are at least trying2 incorporate this but sadly (some of) our students have already been indoctrinated w/market ideology
— Revelation Kollektiv (@revkollektiv) December 9, 2017
Yes. Which is why it’s important we continue to offer opportunities to look at ideology in practice 🙂
— Branwen Bingle (@BranwenBingle) December 9, 2017
On to our workshop…..
Consulting our Community Teachers
Amber& I did morning workshop about teacher training in supp schools& role of cult heritage. Check out @SupplementaryEd for L3 training.
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We’re just about2 repeat the workshop. Amber: Constructivism, exp learning as important aspects of Ubuntu (i am bc we are). How2integrate
— Revelation Kollektiv (@revkollektiv) December 9, 2017
Me: Learning pathways of teacher training in community. (Amber to unpack curriculum pedagogy)
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Interesting here that our group picked out cultural competency training as an important knowledge and skill set for a community-based teacher (echoing the twitter thread above).
Some notes from our supplementary school workshop on teacher training @SupplementaryEd@critracemmu@MEaPSchoolspic.twitter.com/Q3SWqdG3BG
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In addition to even greater knowledge of the mainstream and the desire for collaboration, the ability to mentor and perhaps teach parents, is also an implicit need in the skill set of a community-based teacher.
More notes from our teacher training workshop today @SupplementaryEd @critracemmu @MEaPSchools @PosCoMMU pic.twitter.com/N2WspriOf7
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More notes from our workshop @SupplementaryEd@MEaPSchools@critracemmu@PosCoMMUpic.twitter.com/9fV82Te8l2
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Here are some notes from the rest of the conference:
English an Additional Language
Tara: EAL, English as an additional language. How can we use mother tongue to enhance English lang teaching/learning.
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Tara: 4children entering an enviro whose lang is not mother tongue is challenging. Convo skills not always enough4depth of cult’ immersion
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Tara: Full lang proficiency takes up to 7 yrs. Not quick process. Important EAL is not the same as SEN. Don’t pair kids 2gether in this way
— Revelation Kollektiv (@revkollektiv) December 9, 2017
Tara: As Educators it’s our job to draw things out of the child to promote learning. Me: Need time, resources to do this properly.
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Manchester’s oldest Supplementary School
Jan Rapacz from Mcr’s oldest supp school estab in 1949, talking about culture. What is culture and how do we maintain our cultural heritage pic.twitter.com/FayxPg9u4v
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Jan: Giving us a little Polish language lesson! Also telling us about the different ethnicities in Poland pic.twitter.com/ftnbRr4R6P
— Revelation Kollektiv (@revkollektiv) December 9, 2017
Jan: Giving us a little Polish language lesson! Also telling us about the different ethnicities in Poland pic.twitter.com/ftnbRr4R6P
— Revelation Kollektiv (@revkollektiv) December 9, 2017
Jan: Around 300 pupils attend the school 3 -18 yrs. Will be growing to 400 with an extension coming.
— Revelation Kollektiv (@revkollektiv) December 9, 2017
Jan: Many Polish children born in the UK are losing Polish as a lang. Loss of culture. Me: Dangers of assimilation. Market flattening out
— Revelation Kollektiv (@revkollektiv) December 9, 2017
Me: Interesting. Market flattening out=loss of culture=cultural assimilation but /= social equality. So benefits of cult’ assimilation?
— Revelation Kollektiv (@revkollektiv) December 9, 2017
Me: Supplementary schools not about assimilation but integration, keeping cultural heritage and adding2 mainstream culture.
— Revelation Kollektiv (@revkollektiv) December 9, 2017
Me: Supp schools helping to encourage UK to acknowl its multicultural history AND heritage. Empire comes with responsibilities! Haha
— Revelation Kollektiv (@revkollektiv) December 9, 2017
Me: Jan’s school is based in Loretto school. Loretto encourage high standards from Polish school. High level service agreement be the two.
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Jan: Teacher training is an issue for the volunteer teachers. How to keep unique ID w/o becoming commercial venture?
— Revelation Kollektiv (@revkollektiv) December 9, 2017
Jan: Pupils study Polish at GCSE and A Level. Language is beneficial for child development. Me: Language is market& battleground of neolib
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The Challenges of being a registered Exam Centre
Theresa talking about her Chinese school. Note 2012 registered Edexcel exam centre. Very important. Pearson didn’t know how to deal w/supps pic.twitter.com/ZEbOmlMSD6
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Theresa: Challenges – limited funding, no professional training, trained teachers leave. Limited teaching hours, don’t have own venue
— Revelation Kollektiv (@revkollektiv) December 9, 2017
Theresa: Challenges – no Chinese language environment at borrowed venues. Can’t own the space and integrate culture.
— Revelation Kollektiv (@revkollektiv) December 9, 2017
Me: Interesting point about the need4 academic mothertongue lang use, social lang skills not enough. Thiongo’o comes2mind in African context
— Revelation Kollektiv (@revkollektiv) December 9, 2017
Me: Academic mother tongue use at forefront of cultural imperial battle of English and market flattening out. Supps in vanguard of this
— Revelation Kollektiv (@revkollektiv) December 9, 2017
Keeping Safe Online
Looking at online safety. Never accept friend requests from students. Could be accused of grooming. pic.twitter.com/SQtjOchzgx
— Revelation Kollektiv (@revkollektiv) December 9, 2017
Internet safety: Don’t vent about job online, regularly check Facebook settings to check private settings. Don’t post pics that I’d regret.
— Revelation Kollektiv (@revkollektiv) December 9, 2017
Listen to your kids. Be aware of the small signs. Internet safety&bullying? Take an interest in their online social life. What apps, friends
— Revelation Kollektiv (@revkollektiv) December 9, 2017
Parents- get involved kids hobbies. But not the kids getting involved in what you like.
— Revelation Kollektiv (@revkollektiv) December 9, 2017
PANTS. Gr8 acronym for giving advice to youngsters. Don’t be judgemental, if they make mistakes. Who is speaking2ur child online after hours pic.twitter.com/uXQujbTEhj
— Revelation Kollektiv (@revkollektiv) December 9, 2017
BAME ppl more susceptible to cyber bullying than white kids. Talking about catfishing. Young girl groomed, raped& murdered by 30yrold man
— Revelation Kollektiv (@revkollektiv) December 9, 2017
Really need2monitor soc media relationships& contacts. Form family agreements about soc media usage. Ration WiFi according2 family agreement
— Revelation Kollektiv (@revkollektiv) December 9, 2017
Here is an example of a family agreement pic.twitter.com/5rHFXzxRji
— Revelation Kollektiv (@revkollektiv) December 9, 2017
Some ideas about what we can do to promote and follow thru with online safety and protection. pic.twitter.com/QTLDw6wRnf
— Revelation Kollektiv (@revkollektiv) December 9, 2017
Walter Smith giving us all of this information about online safety. Think we need him2visit @MEaPSchools to help us with this. pic.twitter.com/tdiTeohn9K
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