Above is my year four program analysis sheet for English. The unlucky 13th one out of 16 I've had or will have this year. It seems though I have started to get things right.
For those without Kryptonite vision. Here is what the "rose tinted/embossed" sheet says:
Dear Chris,(nice start) Thank you for your program. It is by far the most comprehensive and detailed document you have submitted and I congratulate you on achieving this given the difficulties in finding your feet earlier (seeing as I thought you were complete crap in April). Your activities are well planned especially in the writing of text types. Perhaps you could send me one or two when complete. Students will enjoy the "Old Man" task (copyright Jane Ashcroft 1993) I'm sure. Many thanks for your efforts and contributions to Glendore.
So typical that I just start to get it right and it is almost time to leave. So am I a convert of this way of doing things?........No. It is still a pile of paper wasting, box ticking tosh. The system is based on mistrust where you just have to learn which hoops to jump through and it is management's job to react to mistakes rather than support and implement quality teaching.
(Back in a moment, just putting my soapbox away in the cupboard.)
OK I am maybe being a little unfair and lots of people have been willing to help me and I've never felt that I couldn't ask questions but as I said before I didn't always know what questions I had to ask. My approach to the whole "Why have we got a useless pom?" mentality has been the juvenile "Right I'll show you!" approach. So maybe I've just fallen for the old reverse psychology trick. Anyway, everybody's happy, nobody got hurt and in two months from now I'll remind myself of all the pitfalls of teaching in England.
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In your absence, all schools in England have introduced this system as a way of improving standards and patronising teachers.
It's an OFSTED thing.
You can coach us in it when you get back and maybe we'll get lovely rose-decorated letters too!
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