"Successful" teacher not following policy

[Atropa]

One of the young 'uns in our department, well-respected by the students, rarely any behaviour issues, great results. Loved by those higher up the chain, always hangs out with management, on the path to be a senior leader shortly.

BUT we have certain policies - behaviour, homework, marking etc. which they just ignore. I have to monitor this, pass this information on and it grates on me that we are all striving to follow policy, but because they are outwardly far better at their job and a high-flyer they get away with ignoring most of it. It also undermines those of us who share classes with them and follow policy that students disagree with, which then affects classroom behaviour due to endless discussions and subsequent poorer relationships.

Example: Students are meant to start lessons standing behind teir chairs. Colleague ignores this and allows them to sit down straight away, leaving us to battle with students protesting against this rule, which we have been told to follow.

How do you deal with a colleague like this and with the fallout this causes with students?

I'm fully aware of the trouble this will cause in Ofsted inspections also, but senior managers don't seem to care as they don't get bothered by this colleague as results and behaviour are great in their room. Yet I have to monitor, pass the information on and then... nothing.

dippy
I agree. Some schools have gone too far on the identical teacher thing.

However, I feel that when you sign up to teach in a school, you are signing up to promote the school behaviour policy and that can involve rules you may not personally choose (just like parents sending their children to a school are signing up to follow a set of rules and uniform).

The way I see it (and I'm a teacher with really good results, positive relationships and good behaviour management), it wouldn't make a difference to my lessons if students stand behind chairs or not. But for a calm and orderly site, for students to have a consistent message, and to support my colleagues I would do it because part of being a strong teacher is whole school ethos and it isn't undermining your colleagues.

Whole school routines aren't there mainly to benefit the strongest teachers and the students who will behave all the time. They're there to promote consistency and backing for the students who misbehave (which allows the majority to learn free of disruption) and they provide a framework for staff who may be middle or weaker so they can teach and support students.

People like this drive me nuts. Yes some of the rules are stupid but they are making life harder for everyone else by not following them. Bully for him he has fantastic behaviour without following procedure but what about the struggling nqt next door who needs the routines and consistency to get themselves established and doesn't need to hear every lesson how 'Mr X lets us do that'.

Having said all that if SLT love him there is nothing you can do.