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Our Manchester, Our Supplementary Schools Conference 2017 (9 Dec)
Our Manchester, Our Supplementary Schools Conference 2017 – December 9th, 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)
In what sense?
— Branwen Bingle (@BranwenBingle) December 9, 2017
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
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
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).
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.
Here are some notes from the rest of the conference: