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Valuing and Engaging the Profession

A presentation to the education forum

Mary Bousted / Brian Lightman

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Coming in praise..

I believe that teaching is a noble profession, themost important vocation in the country

Teaching is physically and emotionally

demanding and given the problems with poorpupil behavior and the importance of continuityin learning, teachers deserve strong employment

protection.

We want a school system in which teachers havemore power and in which they are moreaccountable to parents not politicians.

Michael Gove

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Policies to raise the status of

the profession

High status profession

Freedom and autonomy (but questions aboutfor who)?

Permissive legislation Reducing bureaucracy

Supporting schools in achieving good behaviour.

Raising standards further

Valuing qualifications (but undermining thosewe have)

Improving social mobility

Reducing numbers of NEETs

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Good, but.

There will be underperforming schoolsthat have fewer and fewer numbers. That

will compel their leadership and the localauthority to ask: Whats wrong?

Michael Gove Guardian 22.5.11

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Name and Shame..(weve

been here before)

Failing secondary schools placed on list ofshame

Secondary schools that fail to stretch the

brightest children are to be named andshamed as part of a drive to stopcomprehensives playing the league tablesystem, the schools minister warns.

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Performativity

Nick Gibb:

The game is up for schools that putleague tables before real learning.

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Performativity

Michael Wilshaw:

I was a head and therefore I was driven by theleague tables. And the league tables have changed

considerably. I was focusing before I left on theEnglish Baccalaureate. If the Government, in itswisdom, said we will also introduce a league tablewhich shows progression to university, andparticularly to the Russell Group and Oxbridge, I

would be driven by that. So there are all sorts ofdrivers, I think. Ofsted is a driver but so isGovernment.

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Performativity

Graham Stuart:

I appreciate Sir Michaels honesty andopenness on these issues. We know that

the Governments laser-like focus on fivegood GCSEs can drive teachers to focus onthe borderline students who are the mostlikely to be successful. This means thatnot nearly enough attention is given toboth high and low performing pupils.

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Its tough at the top..

There are headteachers who havebeen peddling the wrong sort ofapproach to teaching for too long,who are going to lose their jobs.

Michael Gove

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Its tough at the bottom.

Telegraph 22 February

More teenagers will fail A-levels andGCSEs as exam system toughened

up, warns Michael Gove

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Its all change..

9 February

In his first speech as head of Ofsted, SirMichael Wilshaw said that unless schoolshad outstanding teaching, they could be

stripped of an overall outstanding rating.

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Tough love.

Sir Michael Wilshaw, The Guardian

2 February

I'll ensure our schools have no excuses forfailure "focus minds and ensure

headteachers make more effort".

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Schools that fail to provide a good standard ofeducation will be graded "requiresimprovement", and no school will be allowed tostay in this category for more than three years

"However, around a third of schools failed tomeet this level at their last inspection. Thereare too many coasting schools not providing an

acceptable standard of education."

17 January Sir Michael Wilshaw

Downing St speech

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Basically, its a mess

Let's be honest. We don't have a good enoughschools system yet. Almost a third of the schoolsin England were not judged to be good by Ofstedat their last inspection. Three thousand schools,

educating a million children, were judged"satisfactory" at both their last two inspections.Previous chief inspectors have identified the sameproblem of too much stubbornly satisfactory,

mediocre provision, yet we haven't made enoughprogress

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And just in case you havent got

the message.

We need to raise our sights beyondok.

Nick Gibb 7 Feb DfE PR Stockwell

speech

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Just in case you really havent

got the message..

ICT in schools is a mess

Michael Gove BETT exhibition

11 January

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Theres no such thing as society, orinequality, or deprivation; theres

only the school

Mr Gove said:

"The same ideologues who are happy with

failure - the enemies of promise - also sayyou can't get the same results in the innercities as the leafy suburbs so it's wrong tostigmatise these schools.

4 January

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Professional standards

Stiffer exams

Narrow national curriculum, written bycivil servants

Performance related pay and poor pay

progression The end of national pay scales

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The kind of teaching needed today requires teachersto be high level knowledge workers who constantlyadvance their own professional knowledge as wellas that of their profession.

But people who see themselves as knowledgeworkers are not attracted by schools organized likean assembly line, with teachers working as

interchangeable widgets in a bureaucraticcommand-and-control environment.

Andreas Schleicher, Preparing Teachers &Developing School Leaders for the 21stCentury

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Letter to Mary Bousted

I am writing to inform you that I havedecided to quit my teacher training course.

I enjoyed being in the classroom and

teaching, but the ridiculous amount ofunnecessary paperwork finished me off.

Thank you for all your help and supportalong the way.

Alan Grace, Student member,

March 2012

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Lesson plans should be simplified toencourage teachers to consider thecentral question: what is the key

learning for pupils in this lesson andhow can I bring it about?

Ofsted, Moving English Forward,March 2012

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You cannot threaten, shame or punish

people into top performance.

Ben Levin, How to change 5,000 Schools

Canadian academic & ex-education minister

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A high status profession:

Is trust by policymakers

Is listened to

Is given true autonomy over professional

matters

Is allowed to hold itself accountable inpartnership with external regulators

Is a partner in policy development Has systems to deal professionally and

quietly with underperformance.

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Valuing and Engaging the Profession

A presentation to the education forum

Mary Bousted / Brian Lightman

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