Re: Teachers leaving the profession
Originally Posted by
Muddy
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What exactly do you mean?
Teachers ( of presumably all standards ) are leaving the profession .
How do you suggest 'raising status '?
I am in agreement with Mr Swim, a lot of bad parenting before the little darlings get into school doesn't help.
As a 13 year old I remember moving from classroom to classroom with the same group of students, in one of the first Comprehensives, a change of teacher meant a change of behaviour from many of the lads and lassies.
They were the same kids, but the teachers by various different means held the classes attention...................or didn't.
Some would allow a virtual free for all, others ruled with an iron fist, different approaches, all getting the results they wanted.
I remember a class bringing a French teacher to tears, another a teacher wrestling with a boy and hurting his leg badly..........................so it wasn't all good back then.......50 plus years ago I am talking about.
By raising standards and status I mean monitoring the teacher's effectiveness and weed out poor teachers. Standards relative to the stream they teach, effectiveness also including class room control.
Just a suggestion.......how about random remote video monitoring, rather than an assessor with clipboard sitting in the classroom.......by agreement obviously. Introduce ex services also for a bit more gravitas.
That might raise student and parent perception of the profession, we have all heard about the bad teacher.
Have a zero tolerance for misdemeanors within the school grounds, and immediate consequences resulting in exclusions as the ultimate punishment. Any criminality, knife or drug carrying immediate exclusion.