Teachers post on TES about Ofsted and lying - interesting

[appropriatelytrained]

I am on the mailing list for TES for Home Ed resources.

This post popped up yesterday.

I thought it explained alot in terms of what some of us go through in schools.

A young trainee teacher sometimes babysits for us. She has been on two placements. She says the extent of her SN training is to be put in a classroom and 'look after' the SN child so the teacher can get on teaching the rest of the class. She has been given no guidance/ideas as to what she should do and the teacher apparently doesn't seem to know or care.

The problem is most teachers are not given any training wrt SEN children and a lot have such low expectations of such children so do not really expect them to learn.

I remember how impressed the TA was when my ds's teacher actually read wtih him one day - it warranted a mention in the home/school diary.

The problem isn't the lack of training. The problem is the lying and covering up about the lack of training!

Well, this thread makes me look in a new light on the teacher who repeatedly said to me "I wish you would bring this up with the Headteacher, MrsCory, I really don't like to". I thought she was a bit wet at the time. No-actually, I still think she was a bit wet. There is no way I would let a child in my class be treated the way dd was treated just to keep my job. But she was frightened.

I have only ever meet one professional who stood up against another professional and told them they were not doing their job and that was probably because he went into private practise a few weeks later.