Feb. 6, 2006, 3:49 p.m. (Message 44163, in reply to message 44156)
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Sophie Rickebusch wrote: > When I was preparing my prelim 2 years ago, I found that teaching the > figures was the best way to get them into my head, so I would say get as > much practice as you can. This comment makes me wonder if the RSCDS considered making the written test unit 1 instead of unit 3 of the first part of the exam. In other words, it would make more sense to take a written test after you'd had a chance to really absorb the material, and it's hard to do so purely on the basis of reading. It's all kind of meaningless until you put it into practice. Some people don't really get to to do much teaching until they start their actual candidate course. If you are located in an area with no local candidate course, you might not get much opportunity to teach before you head off to summer school or wherever you are taking the course, and by then you are supposed to already have completed unit one of the exam. Clearly, teacher candidates should still have studied the manual before they embark on the dancing and teaching units of part one, but maybe it would make more sense to be tested on it later. Just a thought . . . / Lara Friedman-Shedlov ******************************** Lara Friedman~Shedlov "Librarians -- Like Google, but xxxx@xxxxxxx.xxx warm-blooded" ********************************