The life of a supply teacher

[sara]

Poor woman :(

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4293790.stm

Something needs to be done.

This is a good start:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4361770.stm

[BroadbandPlacey]

fucking hell!

the woman was physically attacked by being pushed into a door and then this:


he pushes against my right arm and starts making simulated sex movements against it.

I have no success trying to divert the boy to other activities and use my mobile phone to ring reception and ask for the "Duty Senior" to come to the room.

Twenty minutes later, no one has come and I am still coping with the boy's challenging behaviour.

I try reception again and after another 15 minutes the bell goes for the end of the lesson and no support has arrived.

thats fucking disgraceful!

and she agrees to do it all over again on monday!

[David]

Note to self: Do not try supply teaching.

[wizard_uk]

Absolutely sickening when I was at school in the 80s if I behaved like that, I'd be sent straight to the headmaster's office for the cane.

No wonder the state of education is going downhill in this country and the permanent teachers are off sick because of having to deal with such appaulling (sp?) behaviour.

I don't blame the supply teacher, but why not get supply teachers into lessons that they are actually qualified to teach? The attitude of the some of the technicians and the other staff at last school in her diary is terrible, what if the supply teacher had been injured in that last class?

The education system in this country need to be radically overhauled and headmasters be given the support they need to exclude those who are unwilling to learn, instead of being hauled before the local education authority demanding excluded pupil's be re-instated no matter what problems they may cause.

[BroadbandPlacey]

noooooo theres enough radical overhauling as it is! damn politics should stay well out of education!

its a supply and demand problem - good teachers get the jobs and for secondary in particular there are a lot of jobs available so even the weak get jobs

the best teachers get the best jobs
the weak teachers get the inner city - 'challenging' schools
the worst cant get jobs so do supply!

im not saying all teachers in those challenging schools are terrible - because many of them will be brilliant - but the pressure and workload will quickly turn them into slaves of the system who no longer care.

unfortunately i don't see a way out of the behavior problems secondary schools face. By the time theyve hit year 10 and realised the worlds against them... there aint much you can do to bring em back

expulsions just push them onto the streets - these kids whoever they are (these in particular) need to be in the classroom.

the cane will never (and should never) be brought back. Teaching by fear is an outdated and totally dismissed theory.

i think it has little to do with teacher/teaching/schools and ultimately lies with the problems theyve faced at home and its just the teachers who get the flack for their poor behaviour in schools - WE'RE TEACHERS NOT BEHAVIOUR PSYCHIATRISTS ! we teach - thats our job