Teachers totally unable to do their jobs properly

I was a teaching assistant for 30 years in an inner city school. No planning just a theme to work on a story such as where the wild things are, we made a play of it, wrote about in their exercise books, Drew or painted a picture, maths was interesting and fun, we cooked we sewed we did science experiments and history stories. Our PE was twice a week in the hall. Children and teachers were far happier the teachers could concentrate on the childrens learning and not be tired and stressed. Most importantly it wasn’t about the school it was about the children.

Says it all

Tanjamaltija

"Totally unable" is clickbait - it could mean that the teachers are not qualified to do their jobs. Two of my three children were teachers, and they brought work home (and delagted tasks that were not the correction of homeworks, to my husband and myself).

*Tanjamaltia
“Totally unable” is click bait”*
Click bait is true, and every time it’s repeated it convinces more people it’s true, especially those who don’t do the job or who have a gripe against teachers.
The workload is heavy, expectations for different planning schemes, different marking schemes and different assessment schemes that arrive sometimes on the whim of a government, sometimes on the decision of a head who has heard about it at a cluster meeting make life harder.
Support in the classroom is such an improvement from when I first started, though you do find yourself providing instructions for all the support staff that are there to work with the children with a wide range of difficulties apart from the TA who is there for my support.
PPA time is another bonus as is subject leader time, though PPA time doesn’t match the time needed. Resource banks where schools pay for them, or free ones from the government are a good idea, but researching them and deciding which ones you need is another time consuming task.
All this needs saying, but it shouldn’t come with the heading ‘Teachers are unable to teach properly”

In my last few years of full-time teaching I honestly think my teaching did stagnate. Not because I was 'coasting' but because so much time had to be given up to proving (for the purposes of OFSTED) that I was planning, teaching and assessing to the required standard, that I was too tired to do it properly. Everything had to be typed out, multiple sides of A4 in ridiculous detail, such as which student you were going to ask what question, how you would manage the TA etc. Powerpoints for every lesson. As an ex-grammar school student I have never learned to touch type and I would be up until 1a.m. every night getting it done. We had to teach ourselves how to use Powerpoint and other programs.
In the past feedback to/from students about progress was often a verbal dialogue. Students were more likely to open up about their difficulties face-to-face. Then it all had to be written on their work for everyone to see.
The only way I coped was to reduce my hours to 4 days a week and spend my day 'off' catching up with it all.

My husband and I were both teachers, we stuck it out until the end but our three daughters would
not touch teaching with a bargepole, having had both Mum and Dad as teachers.

We are so glad they each made that decision.

You’d think my DD would have learned too Ginpin, but one is a head and the other, having worked in the private sector because she got fed up of teaching, got a new job as . . . a teacher.

One of my daughters has recently resigned her position as a uni lecturer. She is a different woman. Happy,content and she looks 10 years younger. She loved the students and they loved her but the amount of paperwork and bureaucracy was totally out of proportion. Sad ,because many are following her including my SIL who was a Prof at a local uni and has now gone into private practice. The ones who suffer are the students. Always.