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jonathan_harker15
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teacher training? Hi,
I've applied for teacher training and received a letter asking me to write a report about the National Curriculum. Here is what they wrote:
"You are expected to have knowledge of the National Curriculum for Modern Foreign Languages. Please bring with you a 500 word report demonstrating your involvement/experience in the National Curriculum in MFL."
I'm not too sure that I understand what they expect me to write here.
I worked for two school years as a French assistant in secondary schools but they must ask the same question to everybody even if they don't have any experience in schools.
Are they asking me to write a "sum up" of the National Curriculum, writing about the main principles of it ?
I've already had the interview and they've asked me questions about the National Curriculum, so they've tested my "knowledge of it".
What I find pretty puzzling is that it's supposed to be a "report" (so it seems to be something really factual) but that it is "demonstrating your involvement/experience in the National Curriculum" (and here it seems that I have to persuade even though I guess you can keep it on the 'factual level' like a résumé).
"involvement/experience in the National Curriculum" is pretty puzzling too. The National Curriculum is a set of general guidelines and principles. How can you get involved in or experience guidelines and principles ?
As candidates who don't have any experience in schools are expected to write the same report, I guess, is the point of the whole thing to prove that some of the experience that the candidates have gained before outside of schools is RELATED to the National Curriculum ? If so, they have a very curious way to phrase it.
I was thinking of writing about my 2 school years as a French assistant, trying to prove that what I did followed the guidelines of the National Curriculum.
As a matter of fact, I don't see many other options. Does anybody have any idea about what they mean ?
Thanks in advance
I've applied for teacher training and received a letter asking me to write a report about the National Curriculum. Here is what they wrote:
"You are expected to have knowledge of the National Curriculum for Modern Foreign Languages. Please bring with you a 500 word report demonstrating your involvement/experience in the National Curriculum in MFL."
I'm not too sure that I understand what they expect me to write here.
I worked for two school years as a French assistant in secondary schools but they must ask the same question to everybody even if they don't have any experience in schools.
Are they asking me to write a "sum up" of the National Curriculum, writing about the main principles of it ?
I've already had the interview and they've asked me questions about the National Curriculum, so they've tested my "knowledge of it".
What I find pretty puzzling is that it's supposed to be a "report" (so it seems to be something really factual) but that it is "demonstrating your involvement/experience in the National Curriculum" (and here it seems that I have to persuade even though I guess you can keep it on the 'factual level' like a résumé).
"involvement/experience in the National Curriculum" is pretty puzzling too. The National Curriculum is a set of general guidelines and principles. How can you get involved in or experience guidelines and principles ?
As candidates who don't have any experience in schools are expected to write the same report, I guess, is the point of the whole thing to prove that some of the experience that the candidates have gained before outside of schools is RELATED to the National Curriculum ? If so, they have a very curious way to phrase it.
I was thinking of writing about my 2 school years as a French assistant, trying to prove that what I did followed the guidelines of the National Curriculum.
As a matter of fact, I don't see many other options. Does anybody have any idea about what they mean ?
Thanks in advance