Teacher secretly filming class.

nad1611

MX5huggy wrote: »

The teacher should be sacked, this is a School Boy error leaving the LED showing. Clearly a bit dim.

Thanks for bringing some levity into the situation:rotfl:

Fang_3

I think every part of a school, with the exception of toilet cubicles should be under constant video surveillance. It would go quite a way to eradicating the majority of bullying and would be invaluable in actually assessing teachers' performance in lessons, because I think everyone that has ever been to school knows that OFSTED's little visits do !!!!!! all and actually are useless.

pandora205

nad1611 wrote: »

Agree with much of what you say but the whole issue is that this has to be something that has been agreed by the school as a whole and not an individual teacher.

Yes - there are ethical issues here which need to have been thought about before use (For example, what will happen to the film, who can see it, how long is it kept?) so it should have been agreed as an assessment/intervention in school and protocols for use. This could well be the case but the head teacher would have been aware. of the approach.

gardner1

nad1611 wrote: »

And you'd be happy with a rule which allowed teachers to indiscriminitally film students without prior knowledge?

if its a whole class being filmed and it stops mummys little angel being a little !!!!!! yes
have you found out if it was secret filming yet or if school knew about it

nad1611

gardner1 wrote: »

if its a whole class being filmed and it stops mummys little angel being a little !!!!!! yes
have you found out if it was secret filming yet or if school knew about it

charming, says quite a bit about you.... so glad you contributed.

I have already stated this was a decision made by the teacher, the pupils asked the headteacher if she knew it was happening and she has said no.

pigpen

AFAIK if you signed the filming and photo slip on enrolment and the film is purely for use within the school there is nothing you can do. You can ask to see the video though and they have to produce it but within the school.. you can't take it home!

sessions are quite often video'd at our school as we have a lot of NQT's and they use it with their mentors to improve and as part of observations. They are also used for more experienced teachers to look over their own performance. They are a valuable tool.. maybe the childen would be less bothered had they not been behaving like little $h!ts and thought their parents might be called in to see how their darlings behave in lessons

My Sony video camera has a red light when charging... and a yellow one for recording.. just to throw in an alternative answer!

suited-aces

(to disclose an interest, my girlfriend's a teacher)

I'm all for it, parents need to be shown how their brats can "behave" at times. These same parents would be the first complaining if the class done badly in their exams.

nad1611

pigpen wrote: »

AFAIK if you signed the filming and photo slip on enrolment and the film is purely for use within the school there is nothing you can do. You can ask to see the video though and they have to produce it but within the school.. you can't take it home!

sessions are quite often video'd at our school as we have a lot of NQT's and they use it with their mentors to improve and as part of observations. They are also used for more experienced teachers to look over their own performance. They are a valuable tool.. maybe the childen would be less bothered had they not been behaving like little $h!ts and thought their parents might be called in to see how their darlings behave in lessons

My Sony video camera has a red light when charging... and a yellow one for recording.. just to throw in an alternative answer!

This slip that was signed stipulated School Performances, Award Ceremonies, Special Assemblies, no mention of covert filming and School Photos.

What I'm getting at here, is I have no problem whatsoever with my child being filmed for the purposes of educating and improving teaching skills and child behaviour in the classroom. I agree that behaviour is unbelievable in some classrooms and I feel that most teachers do an incredible job at keeping their cool and organising and disciplining pupils.

However I also believe that there is a way to go about things and there's a way you don't and I don't like the idea of one teacher deciding without any reference to anyone else that she's going to film. I mean she's got to be a bit stupid anyway in this day and age, I wouldn't risk it would you.

onlyroz

Sounds like a good teaching method to me, but the teacher would probably have been wiser to discuss it with the head first.

Fang_3

nad1611 wrote: »

charming, says quite a bit about you.... so glad you contributed.

I have already stated this was a decision made by the teacher, the pupils asked the headteacher if she knew it was happening and she has said no.

If your child is anything like you then I'm not surprised you appear to be worried that her behaviour will have been caught on tape.