I was going through some old school books yesterday, and found a biology exercise book from the equivalent of Year 9 in 1985/6. It was full of beautifully written descriptions and diagrams in my best 14-year-old handwriting. As I was looking at it the memories flooded back of the teacher dictating aloud from a book, as we wrote it all down, and the handouts of diagrams that we had to copy perfectly to avoid caustic comments.
The same happened in physics, but the teacher used to write the text on the board for us to copy, and then we had to learn definitions off by heart - I can still remember the one about "the lightning conductor". Thankfully we got a different physics teacher higher up the school, otherwise I'd never have chosen it as an option. I avoided biology though, because I couldn't stand the thought of more dictation.
Some of my teachers were inspiring, but those two stick in my mind as being monumentally rubbish, and there were others too.
I'm sure there are still rotten teachers, but presumably not quite so rotten as that. They just wouldn't get away with it in the era of the Ofsted inspection. Of course I'm sure teachers are much better trained now. But what came first, better teacher training or the Ofsted inspection?
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