Teacher training days

chika

bonty44 wrote: »

Yes, I can see your point; I was shocked to find an infant and juniors which share the SAME site have different INSET Days. That's an example of poor planning.

So they should. You must know very little about children if you don't realise that different age ranges learn different things at school. Therefore the teachers will need different training.

lolababy

Why do you call it teacher bashing when a parent points out that a training day has fallen on a school day and asks why it can not take place in the school holidays. I have no problem with teachers at my dd school and I support the education of my child where possible.
In my dd school there have been a number of days when training has taken place just before a school holiday
Lots of parents work unsociable hours for a lot less pay but dont have the amount of holidays that teachers get. I dont think its much to ask for training days to be taken during a school holiday . Parents have to arrange childcare or lose pay so why should our opinion not count.
I dont condone parents who verbally or physically assult teachers my children are well thought of and very polite. How has my post become a teachers bashing.
Im sure that there are lots of teachers who give their free time to help students but equally lots of parents do. I go on school trips, help with reading and not always with my child.
On another point I notice that cars are not parked outside my dd school on school holidays, why,because I live oppisite.

milliebear00001

These sorts of threads always make me smile. My stock answer to all the people who think teachers are lazy/have it easy/get great holidays/get paid well/are over-priviledge/work limited hours/suit themselves rather than parents and children blah blah, is...if it's such a great job, how come you're not doing it?

lolababy

Why because if we all chose the same job the country would fall apart. Stupid question.

milliebear00001

lolababy wrote: »

Why because if we all chose the same job the country would fall apart. Stupid question.

Yeah right, and not at all because actually...the holidays are spent preparing for the next load of work or catching up on the never ending stream of paperwork we don't get time to do in termtime. That we work some of the longest hours of any profession, for some of the lowest professional pay. That we study for four years to qualify for this job, and then have to undergo some of the most stressful and rigorous on the job monitoring of any profession. That we routinely give up our own time (and money) for the benfit of YOUR children, and are routinely (in some schools) abused in the most disgusting ways.

But none of that has anything to do with most people's choice to stay in their cosy office job does it? Most people are intelligent enough to realise that teachers by and large, go the extra mile for the kids in their care every day, with little reward or thanks. The rest will carp on about anything they can find to carp about and never once think of thanking their kid's teacher for the job they do day in day out, in extremely difficult circumstances.

And as I stated earlier, the reason training days are outside the children's holidays is because those days were originally part of teachers' holiday entitlement. When we do training, we are doing it in what was our own time!

hieveryone

Totally agree milliebear, and to be honest I think some of the people who 'teacher-bash' would not last 5 minutes in a classroom!

milliebear00001

Ooh - how much would you pay to watch that!?

aimee21j

Denise Welsh on that teacher programme the other night milliebear. It was good tv!

lolababy

Little reward, you get paid . As for people having cushy jobs Id like to see teachers working in the nhs and do the hours nurses do. Iv done it.
Intelligent, if your jobs are so bad why do it. I know because you are well paid.

cheapscate

get over yourselves.
Lolababy has made it clear she is not teacher-bashing and has a valid point of view - even if you don't agree with it - you don't know how difficult/stressfull her work is - perhaps you would not be able to cope with what she does.
I teach but I still think it unreasonable that I have to accommodate 3 different lots of inset days.