Anyone other teachers fed up with teaching?

[ciderwithrosie]

Im on supply having given up a part time job with a horrible bullying headteacher. Does anyone else feel it's all going mad with the amount of stuff there is to do, as prescribed by LEA's? I'm talking about using success criteria, VCOP walls, self assessment, targets etc etc. Its all well and good and I can see the point of some of it but its so time consuming! If you've got a class of 30 Y5's and you're marking their literacy with a positive comment and then a target for next time plus spelling mistakes it takes bloody ages! Not to mention marking the rest of the days work, preparation and so on. CWAYZEE!What do others think?

Re VOCP try sparkle box is FANTASTIC and time saving, I use it all the time.

RE marking, I am primary too but mark GCSE Dance as I have a degree in it. You could mark GCSE general studies etc though. It's good money!

If you went down to 3 days and did the marking and 1 days supply a month you may only be down by £200 per month and doing perhaps 1 evenings tutoring a week could mean your down to just £100 less per month. I tutor after work once a week and get £100 per month, I would never do it on my 'off' days, it means I do long days at work, but when I am home for 4 days, I am home!

Sorry bit off thread but....
Janeite, do you know how easy it is to move schools as an AST? I am having a few problems as the school have to advertise for an AST.......none do!

I have started teaching SEN and am loving it, I have fewer kids to teach so the marking is much easier and extra money with SEN point. I find it really rewarding and am working 3 days. Lots of primary SENCOs are part time. I have just started a dyslexia course which will be quite a bit of extra work, but will be worth it and is only for a few months.

I don't, sorry. My school created a post for me. I suppose it might be worth just contacting schools who have posts you're interested in and asking how willing they'd be to negotiate?

I ended up going into SEN Secondary 5 years ago from curiosity after teaching Mod langs. Its such a welcome change. Small classes and pupils you get to know much better. The only thing I really dislike about teaching is all the moaning among staff and the fact that in my school you don't get a laugh with colleagues. Also schools are often in the middle of nowhere so you dont get out for a coffee or get to the shops at lunchtime.
Ever consider SEN?

I did a temp SEN post actually, and really enjoyed it, plus the workload was TINY compared to my current post (P7, which is Yr6). All our recruitment has been frozen just now actually so I guess I should just be glad I'm in a job!! But SEN, or PST as they are here, would probably be a good move. wonderstuff do you miss the classroom?

Janeite I'm in Scotland so AST etc doesn't exist for us

Caz10, glad I'm not the only one who thinks job-share can be hard. I definately don't want to go full-time as I want/need more work/life balance than I'd get with full-time teaching, and already find 3 days plus all the extras difficult enough. I'd really like a part-time job (not job-share, a job that is my own) where I can get home for DS at a reasonable time, no work at home, still get school holidays, teacher's pay, job security.....does anything like that exist???!!!

If it does I'll race you to it!

When I was doing the SEN work some of my colleagues were on 2 or 3 day perm contracts - that would be nice - only downside I could see is that they really didn't feel part of the staff - but I think you care less and less about that stuff when your dcs are more of a focus than your job, I know I certainly do!

But they are on teachers salary, very little work outside the school day.

I actually met a mum the other day who had been FT primary teacher after dc1 and dc2, now job share after dc3 and finding it harder!!

I think the advisory service is the way to go. They plan their own diary, work from home and seem to spend all their time in coffee shops! for mud to be thown.....

I think the advisory service is the way to go. They plan their own diary, work from home and seem to spend all their time in coffee shops! for mud to be thown.....

No don't miss it as I still teach in the classroom, I currently have 8 hours classroom teaching a fortnight. I do find that I am not really a part of the faculty in the same way, but really that's a minor thing. I do get frustrated that I don't have many answers and everytime I put some intervention in place I discover another couple of children who really need some help.. but that isn't really different to subject teaching is it?
I am unsure if I want to be a SENCO, the amount of paperwork is staggering and I think you have to work quite hard to protect your SEN time and not get too much subject teaching, SLT generally have no idea what we do and see this empty timetable that needs filling.. I've just about persuaded the person who sets cover that although it looks like I'm free alot I'm actually not.
Having said that I'm really happy with my work/life balance atm, and it is really interesting.

I think there is a difference between the English SENCO remit and a Scottish PST which is what I have experience of cat64. From what I've read on here and TES, SENCO is a massive role - I've been in a PST role here and it seems a lot less - we have a co-ordinator role above that which is probably more comparable.

waiting now for a PST teacher to come and tell me off!! It was a few years ago I did it so things may have changed, but here class teachers have responsibility for writing IEPs etc, albeit shared with the PST.

Still isn't that dream job tessie was looking for though...

Just reprinting my VCOP displays...[despairing emotion]...

I'm in England, but not a SENCO I'm SEN teacher in a secondary, we have around 35% on SEN register and a Learning Support Unit, so there is a need for another part time teacher in addition to the SENCO, I would like to go on to work as a specialist advisor or maybe go back in to academia rather than become a SENCO.

The year has just started and I am like other teachers googling ' what to do after teaching" I am so stressed. I am at school at 7. 40 and my day never ends. After many years in Early Years, I am now in Year 2 . Early Years is definitely less work and planning so it might be a good idea to teach the younger ones for anyone thinking of leaving the profession. I am a good teacher but this is affecting my health (anxiety) and it is just not worth it.Has anyone worked as a tutor in a tuition centre? What is it like?