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“The key to getting standards up in every school in every community is to have the best leadership and the best teachers in those schools.”
The Schools Secretary, Ed Balls
The Schools Secretary, Ed Balls
Lifestyles
Tough Schools to offer £10,000 to Teachers
Loretta D'Souza
Published on: January 20th, 2009
“The key to getting standards up in every school in every community is to have the best leadership and the best teachers in those schools.” The Schools Secretary, Ed Balls stated.
Tackling tough schools seems to be on the government’s agenda and ministers have proposed that from September, the most talented teachers be offered £10,000 payments at the end of three years’ teaching.
The new package will target 6,000 new teachers in 500 most challenging schools in England where less than 30% achieve five good GCSE’s and a large proportion of pupils are eligible for free meals. The aim is to help disadvantage pupils who are struggling to keep up with the rest of their classmates.
Ed Balls added further,
“….no child should be held back by their background, so we will now do more to break the link between disadvantage and achievement.”
I spoke to a former teacher and she strongly believed the proposals would not work. She stated that teaching is a vocation that comes from the love of the job and not from financial rewards. Working in schools that have a below average GCSE A-C pass rate involves working with demanding children and from a teacher’s point of view the teacher has to show patience and understanding from an emotional and social point of view.
Will teachers, who are driven to the job solely because of the financial rewards, have the emotional ability and skills to show empathy towards these kids? Another factor is the huge pressure that will be put upon teachers as they are constrained to the appointed school for three years and in that time they will have the difficult task of improving standards as well as the day to day workload which proves to be trying at the best of times.
Let’s also not forget the pupils who attend these schools and the negative impact they may face knowing that their teacher has been employed purely because of their attractive pay cheque as opposed to their love of the job. Will this cause an unruly teacher pupil relationship? On the surface the idea seems to show that the government is keen to hand out money to schools, but underneath the surface, there are flaws which need to be dealt with.
“….I do believe that the government should start at a much more basic level – giving teachers more disciplinary powers and allowing teachers and parents to work together when it comes to the care and the education of the pupils.” Former teacher.
Maybe the government should utilise their money to the needs of the teachers and pupils at a more basic level than just hand out large sums of money on an idea that seems doomed to fail.
Tackling tough schools seems to be on the government’s agenda and ministers have proposed that from September, the most talented teachers be offered £10,000 payments at the end of three years’ teaching.
The new package will target 6,000 new teachers in 500 most challenging schools in England where less than 30% achieve five good GCSE’s and a large proportion of pupils are eligible for free meals. The aim is to help disadvantage pupils who are struggling to keep up with the rest of their classmates.
Ed Balls added further,
“….no child should be held back by their background, so we will now do more to break the link between disadvantage and achievement.”
I spoke to a former teacher and she strongly believed the proposals would not work. She stated that teaching is a vocation that comes from the love of the job and not from financial rewards. Working in schools that have a below average GCSE A-C pass rate involves working with demanding children and from a teacher’s point of view the teacher has to show patience and understanding from an emotional and social point of view.
Will teachers, who are driven to the job solely because of the financial rewards, have the emotional ability and skills to show empathy towards these kids? Another factor is the huge pressure that will be put upon teachers as they are constrained to the appointed school for three years and in that time they will have the difficult task of improving standards as well as the day to day workload which proves to be trying at the best of times.
Let’s also not forget the pupils who attend these schools and the negative impact they may face knowing that their teacher has been employed purely because of their attractive pay cheque as opposed to their love of the job. Will this cause an unruly teacher pupil relationship? On the surface the idea seems to show that the government is keen to hand out money to schools, but underneath the surface, there are flaws which need to be dealt with.
“….I do believe that the government should start at a much more basic level – giving teachers more disciplinary powers and allowing teachers and parents to work together when it comes to the care and the education of the pupils.” Former teacher.
Maybe the government should utilise their money to the needs of the teachers and pupils at a more basic level than just hand out large sums of money on an idea that seems doomed to fail.
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