"we have lost our voice, the government wont leave us alone!"
that is a quote from a teacher of mine, who is my inspiration and mentor as i progress toward my goal of being an english teacher.
its all down to government pressures. teachers arent allowed simply to teach anymore, its all about paperwork and statistics.
i think its a waste of time having all this paperwork to do. it is more useful to spend the time coming up with strategies to help their individual students progress.
its all well and good having this neat little table to fill out, but what good does it actually do?! none!
in my school. we also have little tables to fill out, stats to look at, instead of ordinary handwritten reports. it generalises too much, it doesnt reveal the cause of the problem, or why the pattern is as it is, you just see stats and come up with a label for the child, pidgeon-holeing them.
that turns into self fulfilling prophecy, where the child responds to the label accordingly.
the tables dont allow for investigations into causes, identification of a momentary lapse or anomalie which puts the whole average off balance.
*stops before goes into nine page rant*