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Teaching in a DEIS school: advice needed

  • 16-01-2011 12:25am
    #1
    Seanchai
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    I'm starting work in a DEIS school for the first time this coming week. I only completed the PGDE last summer and it was in a very academic fee-paying school.

    I was speaking with somebody today and she laughed when I told her the name of the school. Put it like this: its reputation precedes it. It also appears that there have been at least two or three teachers teaching these subjects in this school before me this academic year alone, and the post is still being advertised with a new deadline even though I've been given it until the end of this academic year. I could be adding two and two and getting five, namely a really rough school where new teachers don't last. I'm more nervous now after today's conversation. I've 30 students in my first class on Monday morning and I want to start off on the right note.

    Any advice for teaching effectively and managing the class would be appreciated hugely. Thank you.


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  • #2
    M.Pool
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    First of all congratulations on getting the job. Just because a school is classified as DEIS does not automatically mean there will be discipline problems. Everything you've heard so far are rumours. I work in a DEIS school where there are very few issues.
    As soon as you can, find out what system of discipline is in place in the school. What you are responsible for and who you can report bad behaviour to. Making sure that you're on the same page as the rest of the staff is vital. Get to know the names of your students quickly. Seating plans will help with that. Being well prepared and keeping your classes busy will help. Try to get them on your side but make sure they know that you are in charge. They will probally try to test you, so keep your cool and don't take any rubbish. Remember that they need to get to know you too.
    Best of luck on Monday.


  • #3
    delta_bravo
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    I'm teaching in a DEIS school as a dip student. It is streamed but I suppose the main difference to other streamed schools is that the weaker students may be significantly weaker than what you are used to and possibly will have disciplinary or other issues. If you get a "difficult" class I deal with it in a few ways:

    The SAS slogan is quite apt "Proper preparation prevents p*ss poor performance". That apples to you, not the students. If you have a few minutes where you are unsure of what you're doing next, the class is basically over. You have to know exactly what you're doing and when you're doing it.

    Some schools might be different but I have a particular class where the students do not respond whatsoever to threats of discipline. They might lose the head if you are constantly telling them off so you may have to let a few things slide that you might have made an issue with in your last school. If they dont have a pen or copy, give them a page and a pen dont make an issue of it, you're wasting your own time on it.

    You might have a high ability and well behaved class and it wont be an issue but be prepared for anything.


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