I thought about this a few years ago and half wondered if there would be less teachers in the future but instead, more LSAs 'delivering' the curriculum which would be designed by a few senior teachers as there seemed to be lots of talk of 'delivery' rather than 'teaching'. Our school seems to have decided that TAs fail to improve standards though and want to get rid of them all, so I guess I was wrong on that score.
I can see teaching becoming a very 'young' profession with whizz-kids drafted in straight from university and either sidestepping quick out of the classroom into management or leaving as it's horrible. I can see older teachers being hounded out for being old and useless as well. All the teachers in their 50s at my school are utterly miserable and can't wait to leave. I don't see how we can keep going until 67!? Where do we all go though...!?
Management seem to jump on any bandwagon going as they know they'll get lynched by Ofsted/LEA/HMI if they don't and will be arbitrarily forced to become an academy or put into special measures with no way of refusing. I don't think one measure that has been implemented in the last ten years has helped improve standards-they have just created more paperwork, leaving less time to plan good lessons!
I think I'd like a career as a teacher in the 1970s instead, please! Has anyone got a spare Time Turner? ;)
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rollonthesummer · 03/02/2014 10:20
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