OK not a teacher dating website, but a website where wannabe part time teachers can hook up with other wannabe part time teachers to create the perfect jobshare (I’m a bit dubious about this tbh).
Anyway the gist is nothing earth-shattering although the bit from the attached photo is nice - Ofsted don’t care about data tracking or targets or predictions and won’t ask for lesson planning or marking evidence (although they’ll do book scrutinies so presumably they still want to see marking?). No changes to GCSEs or A-levels within the current government (so the next 6 weeks then).
Teacher training bursaries to be staggered like maths is this year to encourage retention (will this affect recruitment if you don’t get a fat sum upfront?). NQTs+1 will get a 5% reduction on their timetable which is good.
They want more teachers to work part time. Apparently in the real world 40% of women in the workforce are part time but in teaching it’s only 28% and loads of secondary teachers who quit full time teaching go on to part time jobs elsewhere. I guess timetablers will have to get over the notion that splitting classes is bad for the kids, when not having a qualified teacher to teach them at all is worse. Will encouraging more teachers to go part time retain enough teachers to make up for the drop in hours though?
ITT applications process is to be streamlined to make it less confusing with all the possible routes available. I searched the document and couldn’t see anything about teaching apprenticeships so wonder if that’s been kicked into the long grass.
Disappointingly, the thing that would make the biggest difference: increased PPA, is nowhere to be seen for experienced teachers.
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Teacher Recruitment and Retention Strategy: More part time, less scrutiny, teacher dating website
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noblegiraffe · 28/01/2019 10:47
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