Teachers pay

[Folloe]

I have what might be a stupid question. If teachers aren’t paid for their holidays but have a yearly salary does that mean:

teachers salary: 40k for working 39 weeks of the week

Is then equivalent to a job that’s 48 weeks of the year (4 weeks for holidays) would be 49.2k

Im not against teachers striking and asking for pay rise to come from the government rather than the school pot. This isn’t a teacher bashing thread.

Have you thought about making them do a rap about Milton, MrsH?

I have not. Maybe I'd be more popular if I did. What a dilemma.

Laughing so hard at the newly qualified teacher being so much better then one with experience. There speaks someone with absolutely no experience in the classroom. I look back on my first years of teaching with a bit of shame: lots of interesting and varied activity but nowhere near enough good learning going on. Let’s put people with no knowledge of teaching/education in charge and see what happens!

New teachers do come in with lots of lovely ideas. But there is so much going on in the classroom and with individual children, that it takes years to have that instinctive crowd control, and to notice, amid the hubbub, subtle things about a child that need addressing. Plus of course learning to deal with parent issues and the various other professionals that that you might need to call on, and the procedures needed.

I too, look back on my first years with a certain amount of embarrassment, even though I know there are things i did well.

I think most experienced teachers look on their first years with experience, I cringe at what I thought I knew compared to now

Should have said embarrassment not experience

If anyone can remember which homework sheets their child completed 4 years ago, those homework sheets must actually be quite good.

I have been teaching for 12 years and I am still inexperienced. When I look at the phenomenal, old-school type teachers who I had the privilege to learn from, I'm still not there yet.

I also have just photocopied my trusty Y1 spring homework set. Yes, the last three classes have done it. The ECT in the other class was quite horrified and has spent the last week carefully crafting individual homework packets. She is on her knees and crying at every opportunity. She's unable to actually teach because she's so busy making 'engaging' resources. My little class have me and my favourite worksheets and are actually making quite good progress.

I remember the enthusiastic years of teaching and watching with horror (for want of a better word) at the dismissive attitude of older teachers at the 'new' ways of teaching kids.

I am almost twenty years in and now understand that the 'new' trends are just endlessly recycled
I embrace stuff that works and discard the detritus that doesn't (although I still try some of it with various pupils).

And to all of those that will no doubt berate me for this.

Aren't you the same ones that say work smarter not harder?

Today I taught the same Macbeth lesson I've taught countless times. Just me, the text, and some props.
"Miss, I never knew Shakespeare was like this"
What?
"Fun"
But I'm ancient so I must be rubbish.

I'm currently doing Macbeth for the first time and it is now one of my favourite texts to teach! My tricky bunch of preteen boys are loving writing about murder and bloody daggers. First time I've really got them properly excited about writing all year.

We spent ages looking at the Captain's speech with Bob acting it out with a foam sword.