I think that as we progress further into this new millennium, that we have got Education and Regulation wrong. League tables, performance tables, stressful visitations and special measures.
Being a teacher has neve been an easy task but does a baker have to deal with flour that doesn't wan't to be made into bread?
Does a carpenter have to deal with wood that doesn't want to be carved into artistic figures?
Does an artist find that the paint refuses to be placed on the canvass?
Doctors do, on the whole, deal with patients who actually want to get better.
I was told in a twilight that we are teaching kids for jobs that don't actually exist yet.
Great.
Why do I get the impression that more and more kids don't actually care about their education or the education of those around them?
We are told that kids don't know how to revise? How did that happen?
That we need to teach to different learning styles .....like trying to manage Manchester United where 2 of the team want to play rugby, 3 don't like the colour red and 5 are late or in detention already.
We need to be aware of all the issues going on in the lives of our students ....we are teachers not social workers.
Having spoken to 2 year 11's who were three weeks from their exams with their heads down on the table during a lesson, a third girl who is one of the biggest underachievers in the class told me that I should be grateful that they have come to school!
Many have no motivation whatsoever. Colleges accept people with no qualifications. Many of our bottom sets have no motivation to try as they have already got in. Many have no idea what they want to do and can't track back to see what that need to now as they have no direction.
OFSTED need to change the way they work.
Why do schools get Ofsteded and not the parents?
I'd love the concept of OFSTED going to inspect failing families and setting targets for younger siblings.
Short inspections to look at the parents who take their kids out of school for holidays or who don't want any part of the behaviour/lack of effort/poor ethos that they as parents have developed on their children. You can't unteach those things as well as an ever changing curriculum
The parents who don't bother attending school parents evenings because they know what's coming and don't want to hear it.
Parents who have no idea that behind their kids bedroom door they are online on their phones till all hours.
We get students for 1,2 or 3 hours a week depending on the subject. Parents have them for 11 years before secondary schools get them. Where is their accountability.
How about it OFSTED?
