[SENco-forum] White UK Heritage

I think white middle class English is what most employers would deem
'Standard English' and like it or not that is the level they want their
employees to have.

There is a big difference between education start point (knowing where a
child is at and where they are coming from), motivation to learn (using what
children know and building on that) and end result - a GSCE showing that
they can understand, manipulate, spell and correctly use Standard English at
the level needed to hold down certain jobs. This is what GSCE's are for, and
why there needs to be a range of boards or differing type of qualifications.

I probably couldn't take a GCSE in Urdu, Welsh or Jamaica Patois but this is
not what the Employers wish me to demonstrate in English GSCE.   I have
heard of Glastonbury. It doesn't interest me but that wouldn't hinder my
ability to answer the questions any more that if it were a piece on Hindu
Festivals.  Motivation, or lack of it is something I have to deal with all
the time with SpLD students and seems to be a particular problem with boys
in English.  Don't know the answer and neither do all the current
researchers, but just changing the level or subject of the English tackled
is not the answer.

Sharon

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Subject: Re: [senco-forum] White UK Heritage

The board is AQA specification A as I have been working on Glastonbury too!
One of the biggest problems seems to me to be the fact, I believe, that in
the exam they are asked one quesiton based on the pre-release - no shorter,
lower mark answers to get going, just a long piece of writing. Just
wonderful
for those who find it difficult to get ideas down on paper even if they have
managed to access the vocabulary in the first place!
Chris

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