“I Teach For Seven Straight Hours In Stilletos And Never Stop Smiling”—What Stock Photos Tell Us About Teaching

Wow, photos for the AFT and NEA union recruiting posters!

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“I Teach For Seven Straight Hours In Stilletos And Never Stop Smiling”—What Stock Photos Tell Us About Teaching

Wow, photos for the AFT and NEA union recruiting posters!

The government in the UK used to run an ad campaign to get people to be teachers. The union there is so weak that the working conditions are awful. This means there is a very high turnover of teachers as the average time a teacher lasts in the profession is 3 years. The fix for this seemed to be to use government money to train more teachers rather than treating the ones they had better. I put this down to anti-union idealism by successive right wing governments who have been trying to privatise the education system. Smashing the unions certainly has NOT improved the education system. It has had quite the opposite effect if you ask me.

The ad campaign was so misleading about the wonders of teaching that every teacher I know used to shout at the TV whenever it came on.

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True or False?

"Given my poor record, I was cheered to read an article in Wired saying we make typos not because we are dim, but because we are clever"

Typo's & spelling mistakes don't matter

ducks behind sofa as spelling & grammer police come out in force :-)

True or False?

"Given my poor record, I was cheered to read an article in Wired saying we make typos not because we are dim, but because we are clever"

Typo's & spelling mistakes don't matter

ducks behind sofa as spelling & grammer police come out in force :-)

Can't tell whether you did that deliberately.

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

I'll let you decide. :-)

LOL:))

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Deliver to PE1, out to PE12 and back to PE2 several hundred yards away from the PE1 drop.

You could benefit from some Route Planning software or a little Operations Research Topic --The "Traveling Salesman Problem."

Wow, the educational system in the States that so far behind that it takes 7 months to think of a problem & make a suggestion...

21st century & yet not much has changed from previous centuries...

No job due to "Irish Nature"

21st century & yet not much has changed from previous centuries...

No job due to "Irish Nature"

I know several Koreans at the university, and let me say this; it's a bit rich that a Korean person could accuse the Irish of being heavy drinkers!

The difference is that the Irish (generally) can handle their drink, the Koreans can't!

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

Health nuts at work again...

Schoolboy facing suspension

Have to agree with one commenter: If kids want them, they can get them on the way to school, regardless of the school's health policy!

I made quite a bit of money at school buying packets of things then selling them on individually. Never got caught though, luckily. Nothing illegal per se, but an age restriction may have been contravened.

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

In either position, he'd make an excellent one...

Minister for Education or Prime Minister?

In either position, he'd make an excellent one...

Minister for Education or Prime Minister?

He couldn't be minister of education; he's intelligent, motivated and competent!

On a serious note, i agree with you. Probably better to start at the ministry of education as that's where his knowledge would be most applicable.

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

That would be nice, but that giant elephant in the room will prevent that from ever happening...

"By the time he left, in October 2012, the school was hugely on the up. But then the governors immediately and systematically unravelled his changes, and results predicted for this year are lower than ever."

That would be nice, but that giant elephant in the room will prevent that from ever happening...

"By the time he left, in October 2012, the school was hugely on the up. But then the governors immediately and systematically unravelled his changes, and results predicted for this year are lower than ever."

Well that clearly wasn't his fault. If the governors took the first opportunity to undo his hard work once he'd left i fail to see how that reflects badly on him.

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

Sorry, should have been clearer. I meant that if he ever did become Minister of Education, he would struggle because of those very issues already experienced.

Be worth letting him have a go though.

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

Yes. Also, get others like him into other departments. That would be a turn up for the books!

Telegraph - Ofqual: schools playing the system to boost pupils' grades

Record numbers of schools are attempting to inflate pupils’ marks in GCSEs and A-levels amid warnings from the qualifications watchdog over “rising pressure” to hit targets.

In a major report, Ofqual found that the number of requests for “special consideration” in exams – extra marks for illnesses and injury – had increased by a fifth in the last year.

It was revealed that demands for “access arrangements”, such as 25 per cent additional time at the end of the test, had also soared by 10 per cent this summer.

In a further disclosure, the number of teachers – or entire schools and colleges – caught attempting to cheat the exams system increased by 40 per cent in 2014.