Dream School 2

Thanks to Bob Digby for the tip-off to this article in today's Guardian...

Some excellent points made about the wisdom of recruiting people who aren't teachers, and the old assumptions that people have about teaching... As one comment on the TES article about the show reminded me:

Remind yourself of what Conservative MP Nick Gibb, the 'schools minister', said within days of taking office: "I would rather have......graduate from Oxbridge without a PGCE teaching in a school than a.........graduate from one of the rubbish universities with a PGCE."

Teaching requires huge amounts of energy. I was amused to hear the story of historian David Starkey, who went the route of discipline and ended up verbally abusing the students.
It's a TV show, so we need to remember the editing and choice of what is shown in the programme(s) but it's perhaps more evidence that qualified teachers need ongoing support and CPD to help them become even more effective teachers... Developing strategies to deal with the endless scenarios one faces in the average teaching day takes time...

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