I've been teaching for 20 years and have never thought of leaving before. For the past 6 years I've worked part-time (0.4) and to be honest I think it's that that's preserving my sanity - it allows me time with my children and also to pursue other things. Furthermore, the salary for 2 days on UPS 3 is good and I'm not sure I'd replicate that elsewhere.
Saying all that, I'm finding it so demoralising at the minute. My school has moved to more uniform lessons across the Trust and they are BORING; the children are bored and I'm bored. I try to tweak them as much as I can but there's only so much you can do. I've no idea why they've done it; it's a good school according to ofsted and I'm certain these identikit lessons are impacting behaviour.
I guess what I want to ask is if this is commonplace. I feel like my job has lost all of its creativity. I teach modern languages (well I say languages, it's only one these days as that's been pretty decimated and we're only offering French).
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tammie49 · 19/03/2024 18:11
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