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Date: 26 November 2003 23:58:02
This is something that the Government decided is a really good idea - it gives teachers more money, it will shut them up.
Basically when you have been teaching for a while you get to show that you know your arse from your elbow - school wise. Now, here's the thing - I do know my arse from my elbow, and not just schoolwise I might add, however, trying to prove it all in written form with evidence of things that really, as a teacher you just do - automatically - it doesn't require you to think "right, must make a note of exactly how I am going to ensure that my little darlings get on with the work" - you just sort it out and do it. Or when you give a colleague some help over things, or work as a group on stuff you want to talk about, you don't write down every bloody conversation, you just do it, because you're a teacher and can do your job as it should be done.
My aim is teaching and the shit that goes with that, not the shit that goes with proving I can teach to some idiot who hasn't got a clue what I have to do every bloody day, never mind proving that I do this stuff, every bloody day.
Annoyed? Yes. Oh, and I probably won't get through because I don't have enough time to collect all the data (I got the deadline wrong - my fault I know - but I have been sorting out 300 plus reports as well as writing 125 of my own - because I am a teacher and can do my job).