Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw: Teachers not stressed

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-18025202

The outspoken head of Ofsted has hit out at teachers who complain their jobs are "too stressful" and make excuses for poor performance.
Sir Michael Wilshaw suggested head teachers needed reminding what stress really was.

Really?

Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, said Ofsted should concentrate on helping schools improve and stop criticising teachers and heads.

"Teaching is the occupation with the third highest amount of work-related stress according to Health and Safety Executive figures."

Funny how people who aren't at the coal face rubbish those who are at the coal face.

[Ignitionnet]

I have no idea what planet this cretin lives on. Teaching has a phenomenal turnover of staff leaving the profession in no small part due to the idiotic meddling of politicians and Ofsted.

[Derek]

Well they aren't stressed during their 40 weeks of holiday a year

It's amazing all these people with no idea of the jobs who can be relied upon to try and bring down professions. Tom 'I broke the Railways' Winsor has just done it with the Police.

It's part of the usual government scheme when they want to shaft a particular group. Start negative stories, leak a proposal while continuing the bad press and hope public sympathy won't be as strong as it could be.

[mertle]

Originally Posted by Derek

Well they aren't stressed during their 40 weeks of holiday a year

It's amazing all these people with no idea of the jobs who can be relied upon to try and bring down professions. Tom 'I broke the Railways' Winsor has just done it with the Police.

It's part of the usual government scheme when they want to shaft a particular group. Start negative stories, leak a proposal while continuing the bad press and hope public sympathy won't be as strong as it could be.

Its there well oiled devide and conquor.

Sadly used it that much sections of public still gullable.

Nice of you to bad-mouth "much (sic) sections of the public", mertle.

I am sure they think highly of you.......

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Nice of you to bad-mouth "much (sic) sections of the public", mertle.

I am sure they think highly of you.......

It's true though Hugh, why else would the mps and tabloids keep going in about gold plated pensions and the like when the only people with anything remotely like that are mps and senior civil servants

If he had said 'some', I would have agreed.

'much' was too much...

[Pierre]

I agree with him.

Complaining Teachers come in the public sector category of "are you having a laugh"

They're well paid, and judging them on standards of literacy and arithmetic of kids wanting to go to uni, they're not cutting it.

I used to have some empathy for teachers but now just see most of them as whingers with their own, and not the child's, best interests at heart.

Ofsted as far as i am concerned is a part of the problem they go around inspecting schools marking them down and therefore condemning them to lower budgets. Whilst some schools that in reality perform quite badly play the ofsted game and get reported as being good. We have one in our town the teachers at the secondary school have highlighted time and again that kids from this one primary school always need the most help to catch up and yet year on year that primary gets good reports from ofsted total joke. We need to get back to educating our kids and removing targets and statistics out of the system as all they are doing is giving a false picture of education in this country.

[mertle]

Originally Posted by Hugh

If he had said 'some', I would have agreed.

'much' was too much...

sorry hugh agree Some not all gullable.

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Originally Posted by RizzyKing

Ofsted as far as i am concerned is a part of the problem they go around inspecting schools marking them down and therefore condemning them to lower budgets. Whilst some schools that in reality perform quite badly play the ofsted game and get reported as being good. We have one in our town the teachers at the secondary school have highlighted time and again that kids from this one primary school always need the most help to catch up and yet year on year that primary gets good reports from ofsted total joke. We need to get back to educating our kids and removing targets and statistics out of the system as all they are doing is giving a false picture of education in this country.

Good point why dont like league tables it distorts who to say school failing. Schools in poor areas likely to be very challenging with troubled kids.

I dont think pushing to this academy will ease it will make it worse.

Say scrap league tables bring in education which aims to bring/try to maximise pupils qualities. Try educate there no shame in C-F if thats there best they can achieve.

Its not right these pupils left like in school play ground when all best picked the last one who cant do it gets slung in to make the numbers.

Its those kids the system fails those schools who get them end up being cruxified for poor standards when its clearly wrong. We then see best school pick creme from pupils and teachers.

The system broke it was broke when this sorry ass of competition between schools was developed. It left number pupils on scrapheap including some schools.

We need wind clock back where schools was localised thing. All schools baring odd was roughly similar standards as teaching was comparable to school to school. The only competition was interschool sports.

Only idiotic governments from labour and conservative think this brilliant it aint never work million years.

In recent years I seen perfectly good teachers chased and bullied out of the profession because their face doesn't fit.I've seen staff who were proficient, had high discipline control,knew their subject and were respected by the pupils pushed out of the job by senior staff (who had long since stopped teaching on a full time basis themselves) because they didn't want to play the league table game..

League tables give a false picture because they just never take account of where a school is located and the local social problems that a school,it's staff and pupils face on a daily basis.If location had been included then maybe league tables might have worked.All that has resulted is the divide between excellent and poor schools has gotten wider year by year because social issues in poor catchment areas will always trump a child's ability to learn and will always mean that attracting excellent staff becomes harder and harder.

[mertle]

Well maggy Sir Michael Wilshaw might not want to read this.

Apparantly his actions might cause massive damage. Seems Teachers had enough planning to leave profession in droves. Nearly half considered quiting.

This like said is teachers feel being hounded out. Perverse is this deliberate ploy. Maybe they see it get rid and replace them with computers. Have then army teacher assistants being there if needed.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/...e-talent-drain

Frankly I reckon all new teachers would be better going abroad to teach..Students in developing countries WANT to be taught and actually do learn.