Teachers for Supply

With teaching becoming more demanding over the last few years many new and long serving teachers are choosing to leave the profession. This is a worry as not man people are choosing teaching as a profession and the ones that do, are not staying in the industry for long.

If you are a teacher and feel that you need a change then do not right teaching off all together. Why not consider a different type of teaching job? You could go in to a role where you teach a different age group to what you are used to or may switch in to a training type role where you can still using many of the skills you picked up as a school teacher.

Teaching can be very rewarding and it may be that you do enjoy teaching but not in the current situation you are in, you have nothing to lose from trying some other teaching related job before quitting the profession altogether.

All educational environments have to submit a certain amount of data relating to performance. This may be exam results, progress trackers and other records which will give the Department of Educations an over view of how they are performing and what needs to be done to make improvements. League tables will give you an overview of the levels the students attending a school are at, but these results may be selective. Higher achieving schools for example may only accept 75% of admissions that they have, selecting the high achieving students. This means that their levels will often be higher than the national average due to the high level they started at.

A mid achieving school may be performing just as well but have a wider range of student ability, meaning their overall score may be lower.

League tables should only ever be used in addition to other information about the school such as Ofsted reports, when making a decision on whether that school is the right place for your child to go.

 

 

Chancellor George Osborne is calling for all schools to become academies by 2020 or to have a plan in place to convert to an academy by 2022 at the latest. Previous to 2010, schools often only turned in to academies if they were seen to be under performing (often following Ofsted inspections). Since then the government have tried to encourage all schools to go down the academy route and are even offering additional funding for schools which do.

There are mixed feelings about academy schools from teacher, pupils and parents. Some like the way the school has more control over the timetable, holidays and members of staff they can employ, whereas others think that it is a risky strategy and that not making all schools comply with the same rules and procedures could back fire. With academies often receiving additional funding by sponsors, could it be that schools in less wealthy areas suffer because of lack of funding?

 

 

There has always been a big debate regarding how much influence a boarding school has on a child’s behaviour and in my opinion there is no particular right answer. It often depends on the way the boarding school is ran and the teachers it employs and also the pupil. Some pupils respond well to being in an environment that is very structured and focused and therefore may excel at a boarding school whereas other children need the input from home as well as school to allow them to learn at the level they need to.

Boarding school is often said to improve a child’s behaviour but this is not strictly a fact, and again it often depends on the individual child. If you are considering sending your child to boarding school I would always advise talking it through with the first to see what they think as if they are happy to go then the chances are they will do better than if they are forced to go.