Lesson are graded on a scale of 1-4 with 1 being outstanding and 4 inadequate. 2 is good so realistically you are looking for a 1 or a 2+ which is good with outstanding features.
Sums teaching up these days when you have to qualify as a non qualified teacher.
Ah right. I'm sure it used to be non back in the day
Yay just greedy man, you could have retired 35 years ago!
Have you been struck off for being pissed?
After 10 years I have finally got this teaching games sussed.....Finally accepted that the job cannot be done in under 60+ hours a week.......Up at 5am, mark 2 sets of books before work, start teaching classes at 8.30 and teach through till mid afternoon. 3 hours of planning, marking, phone calls to parents, meetings etc then out by 5.45pm to pick my kids up by 6pm.........Now, that approach has let me stay on top of my 25 sets of class books.....It means that over xmas I only have 18 sets of assessments (or 400 ish) assessments to mark and grade....Each one is between one and two sides of A4 long and must be marked in detail, correcting every wrong spelling, punctuation error etc before giving them written feedback of what they did well and what they need to improve.........My plan is to take xmas day and boxing day off but will be working every other day.
Now, people will of course say "you choose to do it" and I totally agree I do....I am in the upper pay scale so earn as much as a classroom teacher can (do not want promotion as means leaving the classroom and love working with the kids)....This equates to around £36k......I am more than happy with my salary although not so chuffed taken a real terms pay cut of 20% in last 4 years.......
The problem the country now has is that the workload outlined above is so unmanageable that teachers are voting with their feet in huge numbers....There is a MASSIVE recruitment and retention problem....The numbers of new people they need to get into training has been 10% lower than it needs to be for us to have enough teachers for the last 3 years......50% of those who qualify leave within 5 years, 80% of that number are gone within 2 years.....That has never been a huge issue as in the past the system was propped up by those who had stuck it out and taught for donkies years. The current crisis is being caused by them bailing out in large numbers too....The only solution they can come up with is to start plugging the gaps with foreign teachers who inevitably bale out too....
The system is screwed, the govt and OFSTED have abused teachers for so long that they have finally pushed the system to breaking point....I have watched scores of fantastic teachers leave this last few years and they are being replaced with kids straight out of university who used to be supported by the older generation until they could grow into experienced teachers in their own right. All this is gone now.......There are already so few head teachers they cant fill the jobs (and nobody wants the jobs as it is so stressful despite the money being good).....The same is now happening in the classrooms. The system is on its knees and till something changes it will be the kids who suffer.
