Music teaching and outcomes in schools

[secret squirrel]

My final Latin report read as follows:

Number of boys in form: 12
Average age in form 12
Place in term: 12th
Place in exam: 12th [a repeat of that year's Common Entrance exam]
Final place 12th
Remarks by master: "consistent"

If only he had inspired me as some posters above endeavour to do with their own pupils....


SS

[teamsaint]

My final Latin report read as follows:

Number of boys in form: 12
Average age in form 12
Place in term: 12th
Place in exam: 12th [a repeat of that year's Common Entrance exam]
Final place 12th
Remarks by master: "consistent"

If only he had inspired me as some posters above endeavour to do with their own pupils....


SS

my favourite Divinity (!) report read..................." He treats the subject with a gay insouciance " !!
dictionary time.

[ardcarp]

It reminds me of Fred Astaire's first screen test. Comment: Can't sing, can't act. Balding. Can dance a little.

Also, my old singing teacher (long dead) was asked to take on a certain young Julie Andrews, and declined after auditioning her, saying, 'She'll never make a singer'. In fairness, he told this story against himself.

[french frank]

One year I had on my art report: 'french frank tries'.

[decantor]

One year I had on my art report: 'french frank tries'.

It isn't fair. When I was at school, I received on my reports the pithy one-liners, as seen in recent posts. By the time I retired from teaching, I was expected to deliver at least a hundred words on each child, all beautifully printed by mail-merge on an A5 page. Was this really progress, or just a case of "we have the technology"?

[ardcarp]

Our g-kids hardly have words on their reports, just lists of baffling letters and numbers...something to do with a 'key-stage', I gather. At a parents' evening one is shown these stats on the screens of the teachers' laptops, represented in bar-graphs and pie-charts. You ask, 'Yes, but how is he/she getting on?' You get a baffled stare. And if you persist, you get mumblings about 'engaging in the learning experience' and I really wonder if we are the same species living on the same planet.

[DracoM]

Like all professions, they key thing when interacting with the 'customers' is that bulls**** baffles brains. Hence the jargon to hide behind.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Like all professions, they key thing when interacting with the 'customers' is that bulls**** baffles brains. Hence the jargon to hide behind.

Believe me; there are very few teachers who like these idiotic reports in Jargonese. It's a group of Think-tank "experts" who decide what's best and impose it on a disenchanted profession.

[DracoM]

For 'disenchanted' read 'alienated and bullied' IMO.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

For 'disenchanted' read 'alienated and bullied' IMO.