[senco-forum] Necessity of qulaified status (wasTeacher trainingin SEN)

I think it does not apply to the independent sector - and

So presumably one of the questions that parents need to now ask when looking
at school is how many qualified teachers does the school have!

What an apparent shambles

Alex

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From: "Ruth Newbury" <rmnewbury at ntlworld.com>
> I think it does not apply to the independent sector - and
> in the same way all teachers do not have to be qualified
> teachers in the independent sector 

Thanks to the NASUWT and ATL this is now true of the public
sector. You no longer need to be a qualified teacher to
teach. That's why we now have 'cover supervisors' and supply
teachers are finding it increasingly difficult to find work.

Technically it is now legally possible to run a school with
only one qualified teacher (probably, but not necessarily,
the head) who 'supervises' all the other unqualified
teachers. In the new regulations 'supervision' is not
defined but certainly doesn't require the presence of the
qualified teacher when the 'teaching' is taking place.

Unfortunately only one union (the NUT) took a stand against
this. In return for losing the prfessional status of
teaching we got PPA (fantastic for primary teachers) but we
also got TLRs and the forthcoming performance related pay
(linked to new performance management). I think overall, as
a profession, we significantly lost out. The worst of it was
that it was the teaching unions (except for the NUT) who
joined up with the government to produce these new
conditions.

So it looks like we are more similar to independent schools
than some imagine and with the ever increasing number of
'academies' this trend looks set to continue. The trend for
teaching unions to errode teachers rights and conditions
also looks set to continue.

--
Mark Norwood
www.avssc.org
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