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Labour proposes regular 'MoT's for teachers...
After all the flack teachers and their unions have given Gove's reforms surely they will embrace this Labour initiative with open arms....?
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Four hundred thousand teachers and only seventeen have been sacked for incompetence.
Teachers don't need more pressure. It decreases performance.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25686208
Like in most jobs its often to difficult sack staff so staff are managed out. At least half the the teachers at my wife school have been managed out over the last couple of years.
At my wife school they are assessed twice a term on an Ofsted type basis and are in trouble if they don't get good or outstanding so what would be the point of this new idea in view of what teachers go through now?
The deputy head of the NUT said it was "more denigration of teachers"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25686208
It is interesting that Labour are recycling policies from 5 years ago that they didn't implement when they had the chance.
I wonder what will be next?
You could say that about any job.
I won't pass judgement on these proposals until I see the details but there are many professional jobs where you have to recertify your skills regularly.
How do you propose that we weed out the bad teachers? unless you think there aren't any?
Agreed. I don't see that it's such a big deal. With the amount of teacher training days there are, they should all be at the top of their game!
This is nothing to do with raising standards, but more to do with increasing administration to increase state control of Education.
Why not just limit the Teacher qualification to say 10-15 years to which they have to resit in order to remain in the profession. There is already Ofsted which could do this anyway.
Why create another quango?
he says that it is easy enough now to get rid of teachers that are under performing.
in response to the figures that only 17 were dismissed between 2001 and 2011 he says they leave of their own volition when they are told that they are not up to the job.
personally i don't think we should be relying on people using their own discretion to leave when they are not up to it. we don't do this else where.
10-15 years?
seriously?
for what it's worth i don't think the teachers would be any happier about having to do that either. i don't think may people would relish having to requalify after 15 years either.
it doesn't need to be the same exam they sat in their early 20s. they are allowed to forget some of the theory. so long as they are good teachers. as in their kids learn stuff.
I teach in FE so not quite the same but I'm observed annually (I would be observed more often if I was lacking), we get OFSTED'd and I have to do 30 hours CPD each year.
Create more bureaucracy and jobs for their friends. That's what Labour do.
is it to try and distance themselves from the unions?
I think it's to find a way to ensure consistency and raising teaching standards.
come off it.
More likely a distraction technique to divert attention from the fact that they have no real policies on the important matter of the economy. Why are they even talking about this? The next election will be won or lost on economic policy. Anything else will be a distant second at best.
I'm rather fatigued with the notion that it is the teachers who are solely to blame for falling standards, the vast majority of whom do a very good job under increasingly difficult conditions. If anything I'd favour a much more hands-off approach from government.
Besides, isn't this the sort of thing Offstead should be doing on an ongoing basis? Don't they identify under performing teachers as a matter of course?
Why do you assume that bad teachers will hang on, refusing to go until LEGAL proceedings are taken to get rid of them
where did i say i assumed that?
From what I've seen and heard most of the Inspectors haven't taught for a number of years and if asked to take a class and give a masterclass in what an outstanding lesson is, would fail.
So OFSTED isn't really about raising standards, it's more about being political enforcers for the government.