Teachers are inspected every day of the week by parents.
What a stupid comment that is. Do parents then decide the salary increase of the teacher, do parent give the teacher formal coaching conversations or disciplinary if required? Sure school principals cannot even address poor performance levels.
Milltown, you ask for a definition of a poor teacher. It's the same as a poor welder, a poor mechanic etc. Disinterested , no pride in their work, lack of attention to detail, poor communication skills, poor organisational skills. Bottom line = poor results. The difference is the poor welder has repercussions.
Do they though? The poor welder takes up a job welding somewhere else…
I’m not sure what repercussions you are looking? Flogging? Sack them and then what? Do we have plenty of spare teachers out there?
Yes. It was reported a few years ago that we are training an excess of teachers.
What’s the drop off rate? As in how many train up and eventually leave?
You’ll have to have excess to cover for sick, retirement, leavers, and so on.
In any job you’ll only lose it for gross misconduct.. so define gross misconduct in teaching?
My sister in law blamed the school for her kids not doing well always giving off about them, my daughters went to the same school and it was brilliant, her two kids unfortunately didn’t want to be there or do any work, but it was the schools fault!!
I get the feeling disgruntled parents always believe wee Johnny was a good kid