One of the justifications for Free Schools etc being allowed to use non qualified teachers is that Private schools do so and get great results.
However, are the great results because those non qualified people are really better?
or is it because they are handed heavily selected cohorts to teach?
This can be tested.
Take two schools of similar size and age range, one that is fee paying and the other that is fully comprehensive
say Eton and Wallingford school in Oxfordshire (fast search for 11-18 leafy)
and swap the whole of the teaching staff for a fortnight - to run a whole timetable cycle.
TAs and support staff would stay put so the places kept going
but the whole staff from each school would teach the other's timetable.
How would they cope?
My hypothesis
The state school teachers would be pleasantly surprised that a lot of the private school kids were pretty normal.
The state school teachers would get some good ideas about how to make extension work more useful
Some of the private school teachers would rise to the challenge and come up with new ideas
most would be eaten alive by lower ability kids.
So, could a TV company make it happen?
What are your hypotheses?
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Talkinpeace · 21/10/2013 13:35
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