Category: PTCs

With Teen Mental Health Deteriorating Over Five Years, There’s A Likely Culprit | IFLScience

https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/with-teen-mental-health-deteriorating-over-five-years-theres-a-likely-culprit/

No surprises here! I am so glad I didn’t grow up with the demands of social media and not being able to ‘switch off’. Remember when you were young if there was a photo of you that was a bit dubious? You tore it up, gone. This generation doesn’t have that choice. One click and it’s out there for all to see- no going back.

The fear of parent interviews!

It has been really interesting today to see how well students have worked knowing that their parents are coming in tonight for parent teacher interviews many commenters Miss will you say good things about me and I was happy to answer yes if you have showed an improvement to be honest most of the kids are lovely and some just need to focus a bit more on the bus I’m looking forward to meeting their parents and caregivers

Positive progress

I was so happy today to see two repeaters in my L1ENG class, who are usually reluctant to participate, work really well in groups. One took on the leadership role, making and sharing a document. The other, who is usually petulant and resistant, joined another group on her own and participated in the discussion. She worked well with students she didn’t know and put herself out of her comfort zone. Excellent progress this lesson for both these students, quite the turnaround. 😁

Interview skills

Inpreparation for interviews next week we practised meeting the interviewer, shaking hands, good manners-pushing your chair in when you leave etc. We also did role play and looked at a worse case scenario of what might go wrong in an interview and how to fix it. HILARIOUS, loud, very active lesson but the class was happy and hopefully they took away some essential skills to help them for their first interview.

On reflection I’m really surprised that many did not know the essential skills of meeting somebody, shaking their hand , greeting them correctly and knowing how to leave- standup, shaking their hand etc. This was a really worthwhile exercise if just to know those all important first- impression skills.