Nicky Morgan and her Elite super teachers are coming to save the day!

[rollonthesummer]

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Did she even read the workload survey?!

[JeffsanArsehole]

Hilarious.

How much of a financial 'incentive' will be needed to move to Margate/Southend/Weston?
Even if they paid the same as London Weighting (about 8k) it would not be enough to disrupt your life and move there for 2 years.

[rollonthesummer]

Which teacher in their right minds is going to up sticks and leave to go and work in an expensive coastal town leaving their family and friends behind for two + years?


Imagine the pressure of doing all the things you currently do, but in a new school, with no support and being expected to be outstanding every second of every day? What would happen if you had an off day? What about if you were outstanding in a middle class school with supportive parents, but didn't have a clue how to deal with children with EAL or severe behavioural issues?

Who decides what 'elite' looks like? What if you failed? Or decided after 5 months that you needed to leave, but you'd signed up for 2 years!? Is it like the army where you can't leave!?

If it's young ambitious SMT types who she wants to do it-good luck with that. Most I know have escaped from the classroom as soon as they could and haven't taught a class for years; they now enjoy swanning around in very important meetings with their clipboards-many weren't actually terribly good teachers anyway!

What I bet it'll be, is SMT types who are parachuted into these schools but won't actually do any teaching. The current teachers will be expected to spend hours after school listening to them pontificating about what Outstanding teaching looks like in their completely different school and then the classroom teachers will be expected to go and implement it, whilst the super teacher watches with a clipboard telling them where they're going wrong. Super teacher then 'feeds back' to those up high and says the teachers are subversive and won't do as they're told.

I'm sure it'll be brilliant.

[miaowroar]

Divisive - and by the time it is proven to be a complete failure, she will have moved on to bigger and better things. Same old same old.

[rollonthesummer]

It's pretty depressing though, isn't it!?

If there was a happy healthy workforce, then it might be considered a good idea to send experienced teachers to other schools to share good practice IF it was done in the right way. However, there is a recruitment and retention crisis with people leaving in droves and everyone else is overworked with morale at rock bottom. It is just spectacularly missing the point :(

[Lowdoorinthewall]

Will members of the National Teaching service get lycra body suits and capes?

[ColdTeaAgain]

Yet another example of the government beating down the people who actually keep this country afloat. She is demonising teachers just as Hunt is doing with doctors and other health care workers. I am NHS and DH is a teacher in an area of high social poverty and family problems. If we don't laugh we'd cry.

Some schools can never be outstanding (according to the governments idea of outstanding) so long as the teachers are putting their pupils overall wellbeing over their stats. I know which I would prefer.

[IguanaTail]

I'd quite like a super elite government to do some outstanding work for a change.



They have tried this sort of elite teacher thing over and over and over and over again. Advanced Skills Teachers - now defunct - was the most recent thing.
Meanwhile budgets are being slashed and we are being fed lies about money being protected.

[rollonthesummer]

Don't forget 'troops to teaching' as well-that worked so well!

[christinarossetti]

Yes. And the latest pule of drivel about 'robust' tests for 7year olds will also be the final straw for another few thousand teachers.

Listening to teachers and taking steps to prevent the droves of already excellent teachers leaving the profession is outside the Tories ideological remit, it would seem.