15 days of Teachering in a Muslim School

As an additional responsibility to my uni course I joined a Students' Associates Scheme at Feversham College.

Basically it was "practise teaching", minus the insane typical paperload that comes with it. And I got a niiice pay up at the end as reward, alhamdulillah.

I remember reading my Teaching notes before hand and they included a really stupidly funny rule book (as indicated in image).

A photo of Textiles Coursework created by students 16-18yrs old. It's very cool. For more close ups of all the images I took click onto my online portfolio here.

Feversham College is an all girls' Muslim faith school in Bradford, UK. It has a good ethos, received some stick in the media for 'shutting out' students from the world (partly true) but has mega coverage for the high league tables and exam results.

I studied here as a student too. Learning was great masha'allah. (Just between you & me, I wasn't a very 'integrating' student, ie, caused more rebellion, but imagine my grief when I learned after almost a decade of studying in 2nd hand warehouses the whole school was up and running to a BRAND SPANKING NEW £8 million BUILDING?! WITH A PRAYER HALL FOR SALAH! I graffiti'd the walls as some payback. Niyyeh.)

I asked to take part in Food Tech lesson during the placement; 'twas fabulous.

A class of 28 12yrs olds baked strawberry & white chocolate muffins, as well rubbishy 'healthy' muffins made from wholegrain flour and no sugar. Yeuck.

The faith College really pushed for an 'Islamic ethos'. The walls are plastered with Ahadith, Quranic ayat, fundraising charts and images of the Muslim world, news, projections of Islamic ettiquete et. It looks really solid, but in practise, I seriously doubted the Muslimness of the whole school. I guess nothing is perfect.

All in all, a valuable experience - I passed the scheme too! Yayy. I taught at another school a couple of years ago for a whole term, that was great but strenuous. I don't think I could go full time into my parents' teaching careers. Two nerds are enough.

Zaufishan | The Misanthrope

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