What educational guff is winding you up the most?

[Justagame]

I could list a few; teach like chump, coaching, sporting analogies, endless acronyms and those motivational quotes with inspiring images just to really help you understand the power of the message. Are there any schools that aren't full of this shite at the moment?

No shits, obviously....

We've just stopped doing Early Intervention at all Herc. I think it did benefit students but it's really for the schools to do and if we do it and are successful, if reduced our income. You'll miss us when we're gone

I agree with everything that has been said so far.

I hate the phrase ‘Quality First Teaching’. Like others, I was happy to plod along doing a shit job until someone came up with that.

Restorative Justice has made my life miserable. I have never had the behaviour issues like I’ve had since we brought that in.

Deep Dives make me feel sick all the time.

Book scrutinies and learning walks every week make me feel sick all the time.

I will probably fall into the boards of teachers who don’t make it past 5 years.

Another one is intervention before exams which now seems to start in Y7. Just teach the kids properly with high expectations from the start! Forced unpaid revision sessions are unfair on staff and give students the green light to be dicks in lessons because "I can do it in revision".

@BeingATwatItsABingThing I feel like you 25 years in... it wasn't always this bad. I wish the majority of teachers who hate this guff could stand up against it and that the unions would back us on that

I was signed off in 2018 with my last class for anxiety and depression. My head put me with the infamous year group this year. Every teacher who has had them since Y2 has left after teaching them. They’re Y5 now. Maybe she wants me to leave...

What the hell is relentlessly bothered? I googled it and all I got were crossword solutions. Soooooo glad I'm out of secondary and in a niche section of FE where no one hassles me

It means if a kid looks a bit down in the dumps, or tired, you are meant to draw attention to this, ask them how they are, show you care about them pry

This 'builds relationships'.

It's Dixhead.

I'm relentlessly bothered.
People bother me all bloody day.

Is that right?!

Gate crashing parent here to say I agree Paul Dix restorative conversations are absolutely useless. Behaviour at our primary school going rapidly down the pan as a result of these in place of proper sanction systems. Also kids can’t be arsed to speak to teachers about anything because who wants to spend half your play time or lunch time talking to the kid who whacked you about how they felt when they did it. It’s utter bollocks. So I’ve told the school my kids won’t be taking part.

Like, be nice and caring? Well I never.

Sorry if this has already been discussed elsewhere but did anyone else see this article?

www.theguardian.com/education/2020/feb/18/protest-not-way-solve-headteacher-ofsted-problems

"After an inspection, why not have a period of six months in which the school could work to respond to the criticisms, and then have a second visit from inspectors? A new report would be written and both published – the initial report and the new one, displaying the capacity to improve once issues are flagged."

I'm not sure if McInerny falls amongst the Twitter teachers mentioned upthread, but she has a lot of followers.

Anyway the part I've quoted above made me laugh. I mean, I understand her suggestion, but if she honestly thinks that follow up inspections after six months would result in anything other than recriminations for the weak-link whose department / area was found lacking, and then an avalanche of resources disproportionately directed at fixing this, I really don't think she's got the realpolitik of schools quite straight.

I'm not a teacher but a parent - the knowledge organisers. What happened to textbooks (lack of funds probably), my child has a large collection of loose paperwork sorry, KO that we've corralled in a plastic folder.

My DD's school occasionally deploys a tactic of severely limiting teacher's talk time within a lesson. It doesn't happen often but it annoys me every time they do - just let them teach in the way the topic requires not some gimmick. They seem really pleased with the idea, but I am hoping it goes the way of reading for a set amount of time every night which is never mentioned now.

My DD was unfortunate enough to be bullied by an older child in primary and was too frightened to tell me about the child or the 'restorative' chat that they had. Another really shit idea.

Winner's culture...I can't even bring myself to write more on that one.