'Teacher MOT'

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Just reading The Sunday Times about new standards proposed by Labour if they win the next election, and I quote:

'Teachers will have to pass regular tests showing they can control unruly classes'
'They will have to show they can use the internet and social media to find teaching materials and deliver lessons'.
Teachers will face a 'teacher MOT every 5 years'. Those that don't pass could be sacked.

FFS. Just what we need.

Chatting about it on Twitter. We want to be put on jacks. and someone to fiddle with our undercarriage

'Teachers will have to pass regular tests showing they can control unruly classes'

Surely once the whole school has done this there will not be any unruly classes?!

i wonder where they will get the unruly classes from? Maybe a bunch of praying young men like these?

BRAYING

'BTW those struggling with technology - is it really that bad? And if so why? Is it the schools failure to keep up with technology, lack of technician,???'

Yes

yup, our support is a bit shit

pay peanuts get monkeys sadly.
there is no issue with my skill. apart from excel that makes me cry

Surely once the whole school has done this there will not be any unruly classes?!

yes, I was wondering where these unruly classes would come from, too.

Actor children-paid in sweeties to play up!?

I just cannot see how this could be implemented but I am now utterly despairing when it comes to the election!

What about the difficult class that travels through the school? The one that is well known? Ae those teachers failing (even if they are ok with every class)? So there'll be no problems with behaviour ever again, once the teachers are removed, then?

Can we decide how we should deal with continuous, low level disruption as individuals?
Or will we still have to use the ineffective and pathetic mixture of begging and bribery available to us at the moment?

Having thought about this:-

What exactly is an "unruly" class?

Can we have a definitive definition (still waiting for a definition of "rigor")

and

If where I work doesn't have an "unruly" class will I A/ shipped out to a school with an "unruly" class or B/ have an "unruly" class shipped in or made up?

Imagine being the school with the unruly class! Every day a new teacher to be tested on whether they can be controlled. :o

This is total claptrap. My current class are very hard work but now, only now, it's getting easier; after weeks of building up relationships, boundaries and trying and testing different methods of behaviour management to see which work on which child.

If I had a team of paid unruly children, I have no idea what it would be like and it strikes me as being rather pointless. Is someone who can entertain with 30 unknown reception children for a 20 minute stint-possibly largely down to luck of the draw-a 'better teacher' than someone who has a v challenging class in September but through lots of hard work, by half term
or Christmas, has them cracked?

The phrase, 'don't smile till Christmas' has been around a long time for a reason-these things can take time!

Imagine being the school with the unruly class! Every day a new teacher to be tested on whether they can be controlled.

Maybe those unruly children can sue Tristram when they grow up as they've missed out on a good education as they were forced to play up?

Or....maybe there could be lots of different squads of unruly children in each lea who are paid to visit schools for two days with no notice to weed out weak teachers. We could call them Of-unruly or Of-kid

Who's going to teach when all the teachers have left? Are they going to round up all the kids and put them in big halls in front of a video 7am - 7pm so both there parents can go out and work full time minimum wage.

Plugged into computers doing online tasks, I reckon!

being the school with the unruly class! Every day a new teacher to be tested on whether they can be controlled.

Indeed! makes me want to tear my hair out - this macho assumption that there is a magic formula. IME it is patience, consistency, calling home, targeted praise, zero-tolerance, relationship building over , not in the course of one lesson, that works.
I am a supply teacher and am asked back because I have good behaviour management, but it is noticeable how it improves over regularly meeting the same children, because they feel secure with people they know and trust and who are seen to be firm and fair - pretty basic psychology.