Advice needed from secondary school GCSE year teachers please!

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Hi, I'll try not to waffle, but I'm wanting to speak with dc teacher tomortow and need to see if I'm being OTT, but rather than havi g parents opinions I think I would be best getting staff opinions.

Dc in GCSE year, struggling at school, low achieving (wil be lucky to scrape passes)despite being intelligent and trying hard. Low processing speed, has extra time and laptop. Anxious, known to safeguarding team due to low mental health previously.

Completed coursework for a subject. Teacher called them over, said too much in the coursework, too many pages. Dc said word count just under, teacher says too big, needs sorting. That was all the feedback.

Dc has to leave lesson as laptop not working.

While out of lesson teacher holds up dcs work and shows it to class telling them all the faults that haven't been specified to dc, layout wrong, photos not good enough, photos too big, and that this is an example of low ability.

Dc not aware of this until 4 different pupils tell them at break.

Dc, take into acvou t they are anxious and known so to school, v upset Re this, friends trying to settle them, I get about 7 missed texts ( dc won't ring me when upet, will only text) about the work, teacher actions, mentions been to pastoral but the 1 pastoral staff not in.

Am I bei g OTT? I'm really unhappy that the teacher
A) gave vague feedback with a glance at the work so dc didn't know what was wrong with it

B) Held dc work up for class to view clearly labelling it low level work to all the class.

Dc consequently mortified and really upset.

They have sat tonight redoing the work (from the feedback the teacher gave the class about it not to them!) but I feel like my main gripe is if the teacher wanted to show low level examples they could get anonymous work offline, not pick a pupil and then wait til they are out of class to share the work with the class??

I feel like teacher has done this out of frustration, and I want to say to them "Well done, hope you're pleased with that" as it's been another teary stress out evening.

What's the teacher views please?

Thanks!

Contact the head of year and ask them to find out what's happened.

If it is as you have said, then that's totally unacceptable.

Thanks MrsHamlet

I'm trying to ger rational staffroom replies not replies from more versions of me (ie furious parents 😄) who won't help me put the brakes on before I lose the will to live having to spell out why tjis was not a good idea. Gah, thought we'd manouvered through tests etc ok but it appears not. 🙁

The vague feedback might be reasonable - there are rules about the amount and depth and content of feedback on NEA. That depends on the specification, so you need to check.

I'd make sure to ask about that but you also need to get to to the bottom of the rest of it.

Good luck!

I would definitely like to hear the teacher’s version of events here. Are you willing to consider that this isn’t actually what happened? The teacher will be accountable for results. What could they possibly have to gain from this?
It’s far more likely that your DC threw a tantrum because they didn’t take too kindly to being told to improve their work. I see this on a regular basis. What would you prefer? The teacher allowing them to submit something that won’t pass? If it’s GCSE coursework then feedback is not allowed anyway.
Remember that you are just dealing with one child whereas the teacher will be dealing with 30 at a time. I’ve got 3 Y11 classes this year and lack of enthusiasm is rife at the moment.

Thanks for both reies....

I've gone over and over with dc what has happened and already got clarification from dc so whittled down a much worse version of events to the above.

Definitely not a tantrum.... Dc is really anxious and v low confidence... Really the worst pupil to select to show work to a class to say it's low ability. A more outgoing student would probably shrug it off and laugh but tjis is the key issue... If tjis has happened, it's the wrong pupil to use... No teacher can hold up the work of a pupil in class and assume it's ano ymous, thete is the risk other pupils will identify writing or drawing style, seen the work in progress etc. This is the key issue, dc has reacted badly when panicked over exams before (and I'm aware emails have bern sent out to staff about scissors being counted in and out etc so staff are aware) so if it has happened it's just a flippant act by staff that's had bigger consequences for dc and us.

I don't think it was done with malice, and think there may be a teacher misread g dc poor work for lack of enthusiasm, again, I don't doubt in Y11 a lack of effort or enthusiasm is a bind, but if the teacher has assumed tjis it's not helped as dc has seen work they've struggled with labelled as '"can' t be arsed'.

Hi,

I have been a secondary school teacher for 10 years. Coursework feedback element is difficult to comment on as, like others have said, feedback often has to be vague.

Second issue is more concerning but you only have dc version of events. These can be misinterpreted/not recalled properly sometimes (not saying this is the case). I would definitely contact the school citing what happened and that you are unhappy about this. If it turns out he did exactly as dc says I would definitely kick off big time. No one in my department would ever do anything remotely like that.