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Gillian Keegan has said Headteachers "have a duty" to drive to the homes of absent pupils and bring them into school, she said she would "pick them up myself" when asked how best to engage with missing pupils.
I refer back to my big idea - Everyone in the Department for…
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Brave, courageous, heart, leadership. Flora Cooper. This education system of ours needs more of you.
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Parents shouldn’t ever be able to make the life of a teacher a misery for doing their job, we need accountability for parents who crush the spirit of great teachers and school leaders.
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The best teachers aren’t perfect teachers, they are human teachers - they go off on tangents, they explore stuff, they focus on the detail but make mistakes, they have fun but they are serious about the job - the students love these teachers.
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Media says schools are closed.
In fact they are:
Preparing food packages
Preparing online/offline work
Preparing/delivering provision for children of key workers and others
Making community calls
Making sure those teachers in schools will be safe
Preparing to work over Easter
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This was my headteacher when I walked out of school the other day. Due to delays and cuts. The idea of politicians telling her she ‘should’ be doing even more, without having any idea what she’s already doing, is ridiculous.
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Every teacher who keeps going when:
Their partner ditches them
A kid swears at them when they are already having a bad day
There is so much work, they can’t keep their eyes open
They suffer bereavement
They stand in front of kids and do the job, get it done. Phenomenal.
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Teachers leaving work on a Friday mentally and physically dead to the world and incapable of life and then only partially recovering by Monday is why we are in the mess we are. Because if you do that time and again, you burnout.
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School wellbeing is not:
Compulsory yoga - when a teacher wants to sleep 💤
Cakes in the staffroom - when a teacher isn’t hungry 🍰
“Don’t do any work on the wknd” - when if a teacher doesnt, they’ll be snowed under 💼
Reduce actual workload. Stop unnecessary pressure.
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Once a teacher quits a toxic school, someone might say "god, you must be relieved you are out!". But it will take that teachers months, maybe years to truly heal and let go of that experience.
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I promise you that if some parents were able to witness the behaviour some teachers have to manage on the daily, when the doors are closed, they wouldn’t be questioning the pay, the holidays or the amount of homework being set.
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No teacher that loves teaching should get to the point where they’d rather do anything else but teach or be anywhere else than in a classroom.
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Karren has turned off replies so I’ll reply here - there’s so much wrong with this tweet. a) striking teachers are trying to ensure there are enough teachers now and in the future to teach your children, whether you agree with them or not, that’s what they are trying to do b)…
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Saying it’s ‘disgusting’ that teachers are policing school toilets…. No, it’s disgusting that professionals have to spend their time guarding the toilets from vandalism or protecting children from bullying by other children in the toilet area. Please focus on the cause, rather…
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Newsflash: teachers can’t run 1-1 therapy sessions in mainstream classrooms after every behaviour incident AND still teach stuff.
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I'm really sorry but whatever anyone thinks a child can learn in 2 weeks, 4 weeks, 6 weeks etc - it's completely irrelevant when positioned against the loss of just one teacher to COVID19 in that time period. Or to lasting complications due to contracting COVID19. That's it.
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A teacher who teaches in the same school for 10 years + exemplary service and they say ‘no, you can’t go to a funeral’. Sorry, I don’t really care the what’s and why’s, just make it work for them to go.
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Some ppl on this social network have absolutely no concept of what it’s like to be a teacher in a mainstream classroom of 30+ students where a significant proportion have no interest in behaving well.
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Teachers shouldn’t have to put their entire life on hold until a holiday. Shouldn’t have to think - ‘right, X weeks of hardly seeing my family, day or eve, and being stressed or exhausted when I actually do’.
‘Teachers and their holidays!’ - but if the holidays are the only bit…
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The ignorance around how hard teachers have to work just to keep their heads above water is staggering at times. The ‘teachers don’t know what hard work is’ mantra, attached to the ‘6 week holidays’ and ‘3.30 finish’ jibes. These are mostly ppl with absolutely no concept of what…
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Im raging at the briefing already; “teachers could get the virus in their life outside school”. Er, what life outside school?
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Average teacher: I’m going to change my habits and become healthier and fitter.
Friday Teacher: I couldn’t care less, get me a takeaway and five pints of wine.
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Schools - protect teachers from unreasonable and angry parents who want to take out every life problem they have on unsuspecting class teachers who have done nothing but teach their child and hold high expectations. Society - fully support schools in this endeavor.
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There’s 10,000 teacher vacancies on TES right now, perfect opportunity for those who think it’s a piece of piss to take them all.
We will wait.
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Some teachers wake up every Saturday during term time with a hazy fatigue induced headache coupled with bubbling anxiety that lasts all day. Sunday becomes a work day and there’s the wknd. Few believe this to be true, but no job should do this to anyone.
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When a teacher feels like crying one minute, and teaches a class the next. And gets the job done. That’s next level professionalism and it’s bloody hard to do. ⭐️
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I just broke down in a bar in front of 50 people because things aren’t great at the mo - maybe they never have been. My 3 friends helped me out and made it look like I wasn’t crying etc. So there we go - reality, not fake twitter ****. I refuse to pretend that it’s edufantabulous
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“The Department for Education said it was "incredibly disappointing" that unions are threatening strikes as they would "damage children's education and disrupt parents' lives".
Moral blackmail of teachers is the lowest of the low.
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If you didn’t make a single change to teacher salaries but sorted behaviour, workload and silly pressure - you’d retain teachers. You could have offered me £500 a day when I worked in a truly toxic school to stay, I still would have left. I did, with no job to go to.
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When teachers who love teaching and are extremely good at it would rather do anything other than teach, including be unemployed, you know the ppl running the education system in that country have got things very, very wrong.
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As sad as it sounds, when kids say Thankyou and “have a nice wknd” at the end of a lesson, it really does make a difference to me! 🙏
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Dear Parents; In my humble opinion, now is not the time to bombard your headteacher with complaints. They also have families of their own, lives of their own. They are making high stakes decisions every single day. Please cut them as much slack as you can.
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Still the video that should replace all the DFE ‘get into teaching to have banter with kids’ videos…
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“Requires improvement” schools working in the toughest areas of the U.K. have some of the best teachers in the world, tackling barrier after barrier every day. OFSTED staff need to work there for a bit to understand that they simply can’t humanly do more.
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Here’s a group of staff backing their leader, all wearing black armbands, silent protest this morning. It restores hope to me that there’s still ppl out there who care. Thankyou to these staff🙏
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In a world where hybrid/flexi working is becoming common, teachers still have to fight to leave school during free periods or are made to feel guilty for asking for even a few hours off for any reason whatsoever. Huge culture/mindset shift still needed.
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I want to pay tribute to the teacher who sat 1-1 with a student after school or in frees of their own accord, without being “seen” or wanting to be. Some kids will say “Mr/Mrs X really helped me”. This won’t appear in the headlines, No one will ever know. But it’s teaching gold.
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All these peeps going on about extending the school day, are they aware that some time after lunch a switch goes off in a child's brain that replaces everything with blah blah blah blah until they get home?
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Tomorrow - Teachers will collapse. 3-7 day recovery period to become a normal functioning human being again for many. Cloudy brain, sleepy, perhaps even depressed. Start of holidays for many. Respect from bottom of my heart to everyone getting through this year. Every year! ⭐️
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The teacher who does another teachers duty to help them out, the one who covers a lesson last minute as someone needs it, the teacher who drops everything when a colleague is upset in the corridor. This is the teacher I want to be more like and should be, the one I aspire to be.
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Warning 1
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Next lesson:
Warning 1
Warning 2
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Next Lesson:
Warning 1
Warning 2
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♻️ ♻️ ♻️ x50
♻️ again.
A great teacher can be broken by this
A great group of kids can be left behind
This isn’t inclusion, this ignores the 99%.
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Schools where students can walk in and out of lessons as and when they like, routinely argue with teachers, dispute basic instructions, swear, shout across rooms and in corridors, roam around in gangs AND where teachers are still scrutinised to hell and back...
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Time to post this (obvious-to-any-actual-teacher) info nugget again:
Teachers can’t run 1-1 therapy sessions in mainstream classrooms after every behaviour incident AND still teach stuff.
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Decline in student behaviour
Decline in teacher pay
Decline in teacher respect
Decline in school funding
Increase in teacher workload
Increase in teacher stress
Increase in parental complaints
Increase in teachers striking
Continuing recruitment and retention crisis.
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Flora Cooper is a hero who has started a conversation today that OFSTED themselves should have had. They are supposed to ‘support the profession’. They do nothing of the sort. Flora is a hero.
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Some of the best teachers I had wore old clothes and looked like they’d got up on the wrong side of the bed and might have been cynics but were incredibly smart, funny, interesting. They were the opposite of corporate. I hope there is still space for them in our edu system today.
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Teachers who brag about how much harder they work or how much better a response they get from students when other teachers disclose their struggles are one reason we don’t have enough teachers.
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Had a chat with Flora this morning and she said: “Whatever happens today it must be made really clear....this is not about us...this is about Ruth, her family, her community still reeling....
This is for educators all in the same position. We MUST not lose sight of why we are…
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*NEW* A new resource from me for this academic year; “Who to follow on edutwitter 2019/20”. I took ages collating and designing this, so be nice! Thanks to all who helped me out – you know who you are. Blog and PDF download available here –
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The best head I worked for never achieved an ‘outstanding’ inspection outcome, in fact flirted with requires improvement. Never got those amazing ‘headline results’ in the papers. But no one remembers or cares for that now, years later. What I care about is how he made me feel as…
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More stories of schools having to lock toilets because they are getting trashed by students and more ppl slating schools for it. They are just trying to protect school property from vandalism they can’t afford to fix. But it’s always school blaming - never kid/parent blaming!
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It’s not about being the best teacher or being the most research informed or being the flashiest, it’s about being able to be a teacher - day in day out, year in year out. That’s what the powers that be and many others have never got. Experience and resilience count. A lot.
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You’re not a bad teacher if you’re snappy sometimes or the lesson doesn’t work or that everyone else does this or that and you don’t. You are there, you are a constant, you are yourself - that is as valuable a commodity as anything in education today.
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Boris has a pregnant wife and family. If you want him dead or wish him ill, do me a favour and unfollow me and do one.
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Teaching should never be capable of inducing a breakdown. It should be fun, joyous, relaxed. No one should have to dread going into teach. The government, OFSTED, toxic schools, mad policies, make it this way; The adults.
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‘Teachers need to do this’ seems to be the answer to every problem in society. Every week there’s a new headline about a new policy or directive brought on because ppl have expressed concern about something.
Teachers to be - parents, social workers, data analysts, police etc.…
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I think a huge shoutout is due for any full-time classroom teacher that has got through this current school year; every year is tough but this semi post covid 2022-2023 is one where all metrics suggest it’s been on another level of challenge.
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The teachers who quietly get the job done year on year, ask for nothing, never showboat and yet have astonishing bonds with so many kids. The life blood of British state education. Yet often the least listened to or respected contingent.
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Respect to every teacher who has helped another this week; with student behaviour, a photocopying job (or repair), a duty swap, a cover, hell - even just a "hello". The cogs that keep a school turning are these little things, the community they create. Community is all!
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1. Students "under achieve"
2. Teacher told to "intervene"
3. "I know! - i'll do extra revision sessions"
4. Few kids turn up
5. Teacher wastes time/energy
6. Teacher has less time to plan/assess
8. Students achieve less
9. More interventions suggested
10, teacher depressed
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Going back on meds. Really don’t want to, 2 years not, but need to. Also started counselling last week. Totally get advice of leaving twitter but it does help me to interact etc + feel I can make a difference. Anyway, that’s what I’m doing to try (again) to get better. 👍
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Non teachers:
I have to make a presentation at work this week, I’m very stressed and will spend all week preparing.
Teachers:
😂
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The ppl who think that teachers have the time to deal with every request, behaviour or need from each child in a mainstream classroom of 30+ like some sort of governmental enquiry is staggering. If teachers took approach that some want, no actual teaching would take place.
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It’s crushing for a teacher when a parent has a proper go at a teacher on the regular and the school does nothing to protect and even launches a little internal enquiry against the teacher based on nothing but the parents vitriol. Schools should be teachers biggest advocates.
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Nothing is more tiring than full-time classroom teaching, shame this is the thing that is most easily forgotten and most often overlooked by many inside and outside of education.
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I don’t mean to offend and I’m by no means anti-union, but 1 headteacher has probably triggered more change today than all the unions combined have managed in years.
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A fantastic article. I agree with every single word.
'Many children have internalised the mistaken idea that good mental health means feeling good all the time. But discomfort is not a problem to be solved, it is a necessary part of life we must all learn to willingly endure.'
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A Labour government would give £2,400 to teachers in the very early stages of their career in England to try to stop them leaving the profession.
1. It’s experienced teachers you need to try and keep.
2. The possibility of £2,400 means nothing to someone who is working…
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Gillian Keegan says she “can’t think of something that’s worse either than going on strike or refusing to mark homework"
What about not having any teachers left to choose to do either?
"it just damages children when they least need it. It’s very wrong"
Not having any teachers…
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This is the day when teachers realise that sleeping at 2am and getting up at 11 was an unsustainable dream.
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Teachers are pretty amazing. Few people realise the energy and resilience required for 30 children in a confined space for 30 hours a week.
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If we have accepted and normalised OFSTED making teachers cry during inspections and suffer near breakdowns in the intervening periods, then what on earth has happened to our education system? Teaching is supposed to be a lovely/nice thing. What has it all become?
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Toxic schools give teachers PTSD that lasts for years. We should talk about that much more than we do.
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We approach the part of the holiday where some teachers realise they have a tonne of work still sitting in the boot of the car. They think about getting it, but procrastinate on left over mince pies and live in denial for as long as possible.
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Time to post this again:
Some ppl on this social network have absolutely no concept of what it’s like to be a teacher in a mainstream classroom of 30+ students where a significant proportion have no interest in behaving well.
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Teacher retention thought for the day - the more ‘full teaching days’ (with zero free periods) a classroom teacher has, the less chance they will stay in the profession.
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Surely, surely we can all agree that OFSTED grades need to go now. Name me a school and a staff that hasn't done an outstanding job in the last 12 months?
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The idea that teachers in RI/inadequate schools somehow aren't as good or knowledgeable or elite or hard working or forward thinking as those in Good/outstanding schools is one of the biggest lies in education.
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“Teachers are leaving because they want to teach but they are being asked to be parents and social workers instead” - member of audience nails it
#bbcqt
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Nadia Nadim fled Afghanistan when she was 11 after her father was killed. She has scored 200 goals. Played for PSG and Man City. Represented Denmark 99 times. Speaks 11 languages.
This week she qualified as a doctor after 5 years of studying whilst playing football.
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Those teachers petrified of returning to work - please remember there are kids who literally can’t wait to see you.
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This is what too many teachers across this country have to put up with on the regular. Being blamed for EVERYTHING while parents and their kids can do and say whatever they like with zero accountability for it. Why do teachers quit? Watch this for 1 snapshot.
Britland parent confronts teacher about her son's bad grades.
*I wonder where her son gets his attitude problems from*
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Teachers should never have to spend a wknd worrying about an email sent to them on a Friday afternoon asking for a meeting on Monday with no explanation as to what it’s about.
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So many teachers go home on a Friday having given every last sinew of energy just to stay afloat and then have nothing left for their own families. This isn’t life, this is just living to work. Not right.
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The suicide of Avicii is testament to how a hurting mind can be hidden behind a veil of success, happiness and smiles. As a teacher, the lesson i'm taking from this is - never presume everything is fine because everything looks fine.
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One of the oldest and most damaging myths in teaching is that if there are consistent behaviour issues in your lessons, it must be because your teaching isn’t good enough.
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Hear me out on this… imagine ‘normal’ teaching was like supply teaching, imagine how many more teachers would be happy? no lesson obs, learning walks, progress meetings, data sheets, OFSTED prep/visits. Go in, basic lesson outline, enjoy teaching kids, leave, worry for nothing.
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10 tips on tackling low level disruption:
Praise the good ✅
Use assertive language 🗣
Tactically ignore 👀
Avoid whole class sanctions 🛑
Use rewards 👑
Check seating plans🈸
Wait for quiet 😷
Use the teacher stare! 👀
Bold body language🙋♂️
Task ready on entry📥
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Reasons teachers quit - A teacher is in a classroom struggling with behaviour time and again and the only leader within vicinity is usually sat in their office, opposite, with the door closed, while it all goes on - then delivers after school CPD on “expectations”.
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Guarantee a lot of teachers are using strike day to catch up on work that they just don’t have the time to do
#TeacherStrike
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Having mental health problems and teaching - hardest job. You have to put the face on, you can’t hide at a desk or “pop out” or work from home. Kids will see straight away if you aren’t right so you either act or else. Overcoming that, over a long period, is strength.
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What too many ppl don’t get - if teachers continue to join the profession and leave the profession at the current rate, there won’t be any properly qualified teachers left to teach their children. On realisation, there will be panic, but too late. Better to act now but ppl are…
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