I want to give up secondary teaching, after 11 years. The main reason is that I went into the job to help children learn, and that is now so far down the list of priorities for schools (behind Ofsted, pleasing SLT, making the data fit, finding faults in my work, otherwise known as scrutiny) that the children are almost a by-product of school.
I think I would like to stay in education. I have seen some vacancies for cover supervisors, and learning mentors (I have a qualification in this) which I am interested in. What would I say at interview to explain this stepping down, (other than I'm fed up with all this sh*t and just want to help kids?!)?