A mates mrs has just given up teaching. Only lasted a year. Just couldnt keep up or cope with the amount of paperwork.
We didn't get anything either. Although I'm not really surprised. That being said, we don't go back until January 9th. Then we break up for half term on February 9th.
Thing is, I don't mind the marking at my school, it's part of our formative assessment and is a necessary evil until they introduce bookless lessons. We only record in Literacy, Maths and Guided Reading and even then our policy is two quality pieces in books per subject per week. The problem is the autonomy in terms of what we are allowed to do is slowly being removed by people who have never actually been teachers.
Pfft there's no need to. I use a range of psychological techniques to ensure my class are on task at all times. They're a great bunch actually, I encourage them to ask questions all the time and as a result you get a lot of 'wow' moments as you see them learning. You also get a lot of 'wow, I can't believe you just said that' moments, but that happens. I've been asked to do Foundation Stage next year and I'm strongly considering it.
Well I suppose this is the 2017. Caning children is a bit dark ages... How's about every teacher is armed with a tazer? Pepper spray?...
Well we have the nerve gas in the vents in the event a riot kicks off. But I've never had cause to use it like.
HLTA are required to plan and mark like teachers. They aren’t expected to do data and reports though. Normal supply is higher still. I want to say £130ish?
This year, we’ve been encouraged to mark as we go. Have mini consultations with the children in the lesson rather than mark afterwards (unless it’s an extended piece of writing). Seen massive improvements in the kids.
That’s sad but becoming more of a common trend. At our place, if they introduce something new we have to do, they always take something else away to compensate.
It’s really not that bad We have a no shouting policy. When I started, I thought everybody was deluded but it really works. Constantly shouting at them just becomes ineffective and some of them get constant shouting at home anyway. It’s the whole “I’m not angry, I’m just disappointed” thing.
We do that too, unfortunately it isn't practical as I have seven SEN children in my class and my TA is one to one with a demanding autistic child so she isn't available to help the others. I've tried a partnered approach whereby more experienced children can help the less experienced ones which seems to be working, but there's just so much SEN in this cohort it isn't practical during maths lessons when they are set. It worked last year though, I had a really high attaining class last year which meant I could get round a lot of them and mark their books and discuss their work with them. It would be lovely to say my trust take something away, but they just pile it on; in one morning we are expected to do Literacy, SPAG, maths, guided reading, debate session, assembly and break time. I don't know how they expect quality first teaching if we are having to cram so many subjects into a given space of time. We do topic in an afternoon, but that's been cut down as the trust now want us to do 20 minutes mandatory reading and 20 minutes of handwriting every day. So the kids only get roughly an hour of topic twice a week, about 30 minutes of PE as we have to share the hall across the year group and the rest is spent finishing off other stuff because the year group are so low. We have two TA's across three classes, but as stated my TA is a one to one and can't really do much else. I must admit, when I look at how the other people on my PGCE course are getting on, they seem to have it much easier. This doesn't feel right.
Yeah it does become a lottery with the cohort you get each year. We had a poor cohort last year but they did okay in the end. This year’s are a bit better. Class size has an impact too. We do Guided Reading and Maths only in a morning. Our writing comes through our topic in an afternoon. SPaG once a week - results at the end of KS2 don’t mean anything for it so our head is more relaxed on that. PE two hours but that’s taught by coaches.
£130 a day is about right for a Supply Teacher. My missus gets her planning given and very rarely marks anything as her headteacher instructs.
