I'm inadequate, apparently

Or at least, that's what the person observing me thought of my Year 1 music lesson last Wednesday. The headteacher gave me my feedback today. It was pretty poor feedback, much of which I disagreed with. Okay, I had no learning objectives. Big fail on my part. But apart from that, I don't think it went too badly. Year 1 are amongst my least favourite year groups to teach, along with Reception and Year 2. The whole of Key Stage 1 then. Not surprising, seeing as though I'm trained to teach secondary kids.

So who knows where from here. Learning objectives would be a good step forward, especially seeing as though the lovely OFSTED could come as soon as next week. Hopefully I'll have turned into at least a satisfactory teacher by then. Or, if they could observe me teaching older kids, I'd be happy with that too.

In other news, I have the day off tomorrow, and piles of ironing to get through. Suggested listening for me whilst I iron?

Loading mentions Retweet

Nov 27, 2009

lesleyd39 said...

Yes, you are secondary trained, but you have a very welcome job in a primary school - better than nothing! I think you'd get great respect from the headteacher if you acknowledged your 'inadequacies' and asked to go on training days for teaching Key Stage 1 music. Nobody expects you to be perfect in your first year, or at something for which you've not been trained. Let them see you're taking the initiative to improve your teaching. Ask for every bit of help you can get. Show willing!

8DAVE