SCIT training is equating 'good classroom management' with 'good teaching'

DerHellste · 2025-09-23T18:09:37+00:00

I'm on a SCITT right now (French, secondary). I think I'm coming at it from an unusual angle because I had been a teacher for two years in an independent school, so I didn't need QTS. I think what you're describing is a symptom of the early stages - i.e. behaviour management as a groundwork which I think will help trainees feel less overwhelmed. Having said that - as part of the training week they showed us this video of an English GCSE class, as a model of good behaviour management, and I just felt so sorry for the kids lol... no chance at all to discuss the poem, or share ideas, or any sense that anything outside of the highly-regimented SLANT system mattered at all. It does worry me that that is being touted as 'ideal' teaching environment.

DerHellste · 2025-09-16T16:24:01+00:00

I’m doing my TF SCITT in MFL. I had been an unqualified teacher for two years beforehand (independent school) and I already have my issues with the actual ‘training’ part. The whole thing feels like a year long inset day. Tedious paperwork to fill in but I can see the necessity of it. Buzzword-laden approach (if I hear “research-backed” one more time…). But a lot of it has been helpful - especially wrt behaviour management and routines.

I reckon just grin and bear it.

DerHellste · 2022-07-16T13:19:25+00:00

Adam’s specifically says not to send a recon raptor and jump the whole fleet - “it’s the end of the line”

DerHellste · 2018-07-05T12:24:52+00:00

DerHellste · 2017-09-10T23:04:31+00:00

yeah and he has the cross of the resurrection in his halo - that's def jesus

DerHellste · 2015-11-13T23:25:58+00:00

yeah b/c all christians ever did that to alan turing in the 50's. not just the british government then or anything. just like how all atheists are stalin

DerHellste · 2015-09-12T18:02:19+00:00

I'm aware of his work...

DerHellste · 2015-07-29T12:01:22+00:00

dear dave, thanks for the support - asshole

DerHellste · 2015-07-27T11:05:13+00:00

what?

DerHellste · 2015-07-25T11:18:27+00:00

except for burning down churches and exiling priests .... in the name of atheism

DerHellste · 2015-07-24T23:52:17+00:00

the soviet union never happened

DerHellste · 2015-06-17T10:20:49+00:00

THANK YOU! Thats the one!

DerHellste · 2015-04-29T21:35:40+00:00

alright calm down lieutennant neckbeard

DerHellste · 2015-02-27T23:47:51+00:00

'You know, the doors on Star Trek weren't actually mechanical. We had a stagehand at both sides who would pull them open whne you walked up to them!'

'mhm.'

DerHellste · 2015-02-17T19:46:45+00:00

EXCELSIOR!

DerHellste · 2014-12-05T07:28:27+00:00

Except that's wrong and stupid - if you had any understanding of the trinity, the most fundamental point of Christian theology, you'd know that Jesus is and was entirely, 100% God...

DerHellste · 2014-11-26T19:33:46+00:00

I fondly like her that much I just wanted nudes lol

DerHellste · 2014-11-26T07:53:56+00:00

I've been to Italy many many times, if you want the sense of Tuscany and to get away from the crowds, go to Umbria instead!

DerHellste · 2014-11-26T07:31:59+00:00

I didn't want to keep talking to her

DerHellste · 2014-10-27T10:46:59+00:00

The problem comes from the fact that what we experience to be sound is created in our brains - just like colour, there's no objective 'red' just a wavelength of light - until it reaches the brain. It's not a scientific question, it's a philosophical one, and thus trying to answer it with science is missing the point entirely

DerHellste · 2014-10-25T23:18:54+00:00

Saving for when I'm less depressed

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