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Unfortunately some students are really lazy and don't care. My motivated Year 7 students will be able to conjugate more verbs correctly in the present tense than Year 10 by the end of June. Sometimes, I bring Year 7 students into my Year 10 classes where we have a competition on present verbs and key high frequency words like (avec, ce n'est pas ou etc). The younger ones put alot of the older students to shame. Both sets of students have received the same quality of teaching but the results differ massively, This is because the teacher can only show the path, the kids must decide if they wish to walk down the path. If you enter teaching, your most important job is get the students to learn for themselves and want to do it by themselves. If you try and ram knowledge into their heads and they are not interested, you are onto a loser. Rousseau once said don't teach children the facts of science, teach them to have a taste for science Finally the Year 9 class teacher could be brillant in the school you visited but if the kids don't care, then you are stuffed.
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