who’d want to be a teacher?
2:37 pm on the 22nd of October, 2002BBC NEWS | Education | Teachers split over workload offer
“The government wants teachers to take on a more managerial role, supervising staff such as classroom assistants.”
“The re-modelled teaching profession projects teachers as better-paid, better-trained, flexible, classroom managers.”
“Long hours of marking and preparation in teachers’ own time were claimed as causing stress and leading to many teachers leaving the profession.”
“A report into teachers’ workload, commissioned by the government, recommended a target of 45-hours per week, but ministers have refused to set an inflexible upper limit to the working week for teachers.”
There do seem to be some good things to have come out of the govertnment’s proposals though:
“And it envisages a more flexible approach to the length and style of lessons. Instead of the standard classroom lesson, there could be lecture and seminar style lessons for older secondary pupils. This could include both small-group and one-to-one teaching and larger groups than the conventional class.”
My physics teacher last year took this approach and it really helped with the transition from the Grammar school to University.
