What’s New?  Why are teachers leaving their jobs?

History Topic! One room school history.

Conversation Topic. Safety and Caution Dialog.

Speaking Practice. “Be Careful” Dialog.

Basic Grammar Review. Present progressive or present continuous?

English Grammar. The Future with “Will” or “Going To”.

“Staggeringly high” numbers of teachers are ready to quit the  profession, a leading education researcher has warned, as growing  pressures placed on staff and schools make the job “just too big an  ask”. Rebecca Allen, director of the Education Datalab think tank has  become the latest expert to highlight what has been referred to as a  “crisis” in teacher recruitment and retention.

Children across the country are being taught by teachers who do not  want to be there, but are trapped by their financial circumstances, Ms  Allen said. Speaking at a General Election briefing on education, she  warned teaching is now “incredibly difficult”, as staff are increasingly  bogged down with paperwork and accountability tasks that are leaving  them exhausted and unmotivated.

Ms Allen said there is a need to look at improving the experience of  teachers at the start of their career, which could include measures such  as mentoring, smaller teaching workloads, or extending the teacher  training period. More needs to be done, in particular to help new  teachers, to stop them walking out the door, she said.

One-room schools were commonplace throughout rural portions of  various countries, including Prussia, Norway, Sweden, the United States,  Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Spain.  In most rural (country) and small town schools, all of the students met  in a single room.

There, a single teacher taught academic basics to several grade  levels of elementary-age boys and girls. While in many areas one-room  schools are no longer used, it is not uncommon for them to remain in  developing nations and rural or remote areas. Examples include remote  parts of the American West, the Falklands, and the Shetland Islands.

Teachers in one-room schools were often former students themselves.  Their role is well-described by a student from Kentucky in the 1940s:

“The teachers that taught in the one room, rural schools were very  special people. During the winter months they would get to the school  early to get a fire started in the potbelly stove, so the building would  be warm for the students. On many occasions they would prepare a hot,  noon meal on top of the stove, usually consisting of soup or stew of  some kind. They took care of their students like a new mother hen would  care for her newly hatched chicks; always looking out for their health  and welfare”.

More on one room schools at Wiki.

Thank you Wiki http://bit.ly/2rvmPOB

While there are differences between “Will and “Going to”, there are  also many similarities in the way we use these. I am going to explain  these two terms a little differently than you might have studied. First  of all, “Will” is a “Modal Auxiliary Verb”. “Going to” is nothing more  than a common phrasal verb.

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