[senco-forum] GTC?! (non SEN)

My thoughts on the General Teaching Council? A complete waste of time and

With the General Teaching Council for Wales, as in NI, the fee is paid frm
your salary one month and then repaid to your salary the next month.

There is also financial encouragement for CPD, with individual bursaries
of £600+; network and group bursaries  and research project funding of
several thousand pounds.  The administrators of this funding are very
helpful and will contact you with suggestions to ensure that your
application meets the criteria for the award.

Regards

Jean

> My thoughts on the General Teaching Council?  A complete waste of time and
> money!
> I'm not saying the magazine isn't interesting occasionally but there's not
> been anything in it that I couldn't have read about elsewhere and to be
> honest what else do the GTC do beside publishing magazines and
> distributing
> them to teachers?
> At least the GTC doesn't cost us the £1000 odd it costs plumbers to belong
> to Corgi....and before you ask that organisation is about as effective as
> the GTC.
> Chris..    (whose having a bad day!     )
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> Mmilesep at aol.com
> Sent: 15 April 2008 16:54
> To: p.smith2 at barnsley.org; senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [senco-forum] GTC?! (non SEN)
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> In a message dated 15/04/2008 15:14:15 GMT Daylight Time,
> p.smith2 at barnsley.org writes:
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> Any  thoughts or feelings with regard to the General Teaching  Council?
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> We are required to  register with them in order to be a teacher and
> although
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> the letters we get  say they are concerned to, "raise still further the
> very
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> high regard in which  teachers are held", an admirable aspiration, I am
> unsure
> of their  effectiveness in this or any other endeavour.
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> Please advise me otherwise as I believe I was able to be  registered as a
> teacher before the GTC came along for £33  less!
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> Don't think you have a choice. The fee was included in teachers' pay rise
> when it was first introduced so the argument is it is being paid for you.
> You
> have been given the monry all you have to do is give it back!
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> I have been doing research as EPs will have to go through a similar
> process
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> soon at £72 per annum! As union rep I am negotiating the LA paying for
> this
> as
>  without it we will not be able to practice.
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> Martin
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