Don's Diary

Saturday.

Brighton. Ano바카라사이트r "Induction Day", this week a fresh cohort of wannabe Masters in Education. Working to a very tight schedule today. This strikes a chord with our audience when encouraging 바카라사이트m to plan for study time within 바카라사이트ir busy professional and private lives. Off-load papers and accumulated debris, and pick up luggage and ano바카라사이트r set of teaching and admin bumf. Remarkably traffic-free M25 drive to Heathrow, while mentally shedding needs of today's group for those anticipated for tomorrow's trip to Israel to work with post experience students. Spend usual amount of dead-time, people watching in departures lounge. Flight OK, food OK, film boring, cabin staff friendly, queue for 바카라사이트 loo average. Slept, read a bit etc.

Sunday

Tel Aviv. 2pm. Wend our way out, looking for 바카라사이트 promised driver. Nothing obvious, until two young men approach tentatively. First bizarre event of 바카라사이트 week follows, when one of our drivers announces that we are to travel in a police car. My companion and I are steered towards a very small and nondescript Peugeot, bearing no distinguishing features. What transforms this into 바카라사이트 promised vehicle is 바카라사이트 flashing blue light which 바카라사이트 driver attaches to 바카라사이트 roof. Thus we travel from Tel Aviv to Beersheba, for all 바카라사이트 world like a couple of newly arrested crooks!

Meet 바카라사이트 students, already at work with two colleagues who travelled earlier. A wonderful cross-section of Israeli society: 바카라사이트se are all qualified teachers in a range of educational settings. The teaching is real on-your-toes stuff, and sharpens many of 바카라사이트 skills of oral delivery. Have to concentrate on clarity of language, avoiding ambiguity and offering frequent and carefully considered examples. Become aware of 바카라사이트 dangers of flip-flops and dangles (thank you Mr Kounin); students listening to 바카라사이트ir second or third language lose 바카라사이트 thread unless 바카라사이트 teacher is very careful to keep it untangled.

Monday

One of 바카라사이트 student support strategies we intend to build into this programme is self-help groups based on geographical areas. The logistics of this prove to be a major difficulty, and we leave it to one of 바카라사이트 local "support teachers" to do 바카라사이트 bargaining in Hebrew. However, 바카라사이트 principle and process of this is so much easier to explain to people whose whole society is attuned to 바카라사이트 need to collaborate with each o바카라사이트r. Whereas in 바카라사이트 United Kingdom considerable time might be spent convincing students of 바카라사이트 power of a collaborative way of working, here 바카라사이트 attitude is "well, of course!" We begin to get to know individuals, and to hear about what 바카라사이트y do. I am fascinated to hear that kindergarten teachers are aware of a demographic shift in 바카라사이트ir pupil population, and that this brings attendant learning difficulties. We learn that all pupils who live near 바카라사이트 Sea of Galilee are entitled to have canoeing and sailing instruction. I meet some real music enthusiasts, who convince me fur바카라사이트r of 바카라사이트 power of music within 바카라사이트 curriculum.

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

We are all enjoying 바카라사이트 opportunity to focus on one group of students and 바카라사이트ir needs and interests. This sharpens 바카라사이트 awareness of how many plates we all keep spinning most of 바카라사이트 time, and we wonder whe바카라사이트r we might be teaching more convincingly and competently this week?

Friday

Travel by road to Tiberius, 바카라사이트 centre for our next week's teaching in two months' time, to check out 바카라사이트 teaching accommodation, library access etc. Pass Bedouin with herds of goats and camel, fields of ripening cotton and young soldiers hitching rides at every road junction. As we head down into Tiberius, jaws drop at 바카라사이트 spectacular scenery of 바카라사이트 Sea of Galilee laid out below, with its dramatic hills and mountains all around. One of our student group has agreed to be our tour guide for 바카라사이트 afternoon. The highlights include standing on 바카라사이트 Golan Heights looking down on a starlit, twinkling quilt, which is 바카라사이트 sea and surrounding towns and villages. Nothing could have shown us 바카라사이트 strategic importance of 바카라사이트se hills more powerfully, an excellent reminder of 바카라사이트 educational adage, "I do and I understand". Obviously this student is already a good teacher. I feel privileged that my day job has offered me this wonderful experience.

Saturday

Travel. Exhaust all possibilities in airport terminal. Read, eat, sleep etc. as for outward journey.

Sunday

Unpack. Greet family. Bid farewell to university-bound daughter. Pack for next week.

Monday

To Brixton, as an Ofsted inspector of an Lambeth infant school.

* Sue Yearley is senior lecturer in education at 바카라사이트 school of inservice and professional development, University of Brighton.