what do you think of our schoolteachers nowadays
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what do you think of our schoolteachers nowadays
I pity them - kids can be such little "you know what's" and there is little they can do regarding discipline. Having said that their starting salaries seem very high as say, compared to nurses - a good teacher is worth every penny but I think they are few and far between.
I think they actually do a wonderful job in todays society. I do not envy them.
:confused IMHO they get treated as badly as Social Workers. Whatever they do they're damned if they do, and damned if they don't.
I don't think it's worth doing a three or four years undergraduate degree followed by a year or two PgDip at teacher training college to get landed in a classroom where some of the children are obnoxious and their parents as thick in the heid as s---e in a bottle.
They're fighting a losing battle and are unbelieveably stressed. They cant discipline the unruly kids, are drowing in paper work and teaching seems to be secondary to that.
Dont envy them at all:eek:
i would say they have a hard job on there hands
I have a brilliant English teacher at Wick High
A completely unbiased ;) opinion of Thurso High here -
http://uk.ratemyteachers.com/thurso-high-school/23785-s
Personally I admire teachers , especially since they can't give the belt anymore!
Teachers? those would be the barely educated "college drops outs", who in my experience cannot spell, let alone teach.
It is with little wonder our children are illiterate on leaving school.
these will be the same people who cannot command respect let alone attention from their young charges,
and they are the same people who are leaving teaching because, they cannot touch / comfort / discipline a child in their care,
teachers are not what they used to be,
and maybe they shouldn't be, but children do go to school to learn and the very least a parent can hope for is a competent teacher in place.
I have friends who are teachers,
I have relatives who were teachers, but I would not thank them to be in the position of "teaching" my child.
[disgust] I doubt your teacher would be a 'college drop out' since they have to be registered with the GTC Scotland and in order to do that they have to have completed (a) PGDE in the subject you graduated in, (b) a Bachelor of Education (BEd), or (c) a part-time or distant learning PGDE course.
In any event it's not an easy pathway to teaching - and the end result? Get slagged off by all and sundry.
IMHO the reason for the decline in education standards is directly related to the decline in discipline and a lack of respect for the teaching profession.
Everyone to their own.
My teachers were strict, disciplined, educated, well travelled, well experienced, carers of their charges.
Today's teachers fall out of college and into jobs which many are not well suited to.
Today's teachers are overworked, overstressed and over the top in every sense of the word.
"a child" cannot get close to their teacher, nor the teacher with the child, gone are the days of prefects, teachers pets and extra tuition to the brightest in class,
there was a time that Scotland's education system was envied by the world, the same cannot be said today.
well i know quite a lot of teachers and they do a very good job, the job is made harder for them by all the regulations that are in place.
Also i know a teacher very well that is quite happy to give up their free time to any people if it helps them to get their qualifacation in that particular subject
Teachers have no respect because there is no disiplin and because there is no disiplin it makes it harder for the kids that do want to learn but cant becuase of the other kids carrying on.
Bring back the belt its that simple it never hurted anyone long term you could even restrict it so its the headmaster only person that does it so it can be controled better
If you get an unruly kid he will soon get the message if hes getting the belt everytime he steps out of line
It's a sad fact of life than many of the children with 'challenging' behaviour have been shouted and screamed at and slapped around by their parents yet remain in their 'care'! Yet teachers are not even allowed to restrain these children when they're beating seven bells out of their classmates! We now have a situation where the lunatics are running the asylum.
Thankfully there are children out there who do rise above all this and go on to take a constructive place in society. Unfortunately there are a significant minority that are going to repeat the cycle and be a drain on society all their miserable lives.
I think we are (on the whole) a fine bunch. Last Sept I started at a new school - inner city place - and have found it a refreshing and challenging change. Haven't regretted to move and have a good rapport with the students. Moved there from a 'posh' top-end state school.
The trick is to take the students as they are - times change and a good teacher learns to change with them.
I think you'll find that the best that teachers can hope for is a competent parent in place. People are quick to blame teachers for their kids poor performance, forgetting that they are the ones who developed the children's attitude and behaviour, long before they set foot in a school. Education doesn't begin (or end) in the classroom.
Of course you get bad teachers but at least they have to spend time getting a recognised qualification before doing their job. I don't think any blame should ever be placed firmly on one side or the other.
One thing is for sure - I would never teach.
What a ridiculous, illogical and ill educated post this is. College dropouts? Have you been watching too much American TV? Our teachers have to pass a degree in a relevant field and then study intensively for a PGCE, fight for a placement as part of the course and then hope to get a job at the end of it, there are no guarantees.
You're making a badly thought out sweeping statement based on a little knowledge of a certain cross section of your experience. Your bad experience is not a microcosm of teaching across a nation, what an absolutely preposterous statement.
Your lack of thought is bordering on offensive.
Also, your comment leads far too easily to comment upon the standard of your English. Not up to much is it? Any "barely educated college drops outs" (sic) would be able to take a red pen to it and sign it off with a big "See Me".
Also, I'm not a teacher.
Very disrespectful headline here;
http://www.thenational.scot/news/165...a-maths-whizz/
No way to talk about a maths teacher. :(
There is a saying
Those that can, do.
Those that can’t, teach.
Here is a photograph showing some teachers (as well as pupils) from the Thurso High Reunion fot pupils who started in 1977:
https://www.facebook.com/20041019332...660267/?type=3
Mr Nelson...Tongue Primary School and Mr Joyce....Golspie High School.Best two teachers ever!.
Can’t say any teacher at Thurso left any kind of positive impression on me.
The careers advice there was woeful also. Was you could go to uni or work in Dounreay. No info on anything else at all.
One teacher at the high school left his mark on me. After an extended impasse one of the class eventually owned up to a misdemeanour, following which we all became Spartacus. We formed an orderly queue and he belted us all.
He would be struck off for that today. Thankfully.
There was a thread about the belt a few years ago:
http://forum.caithness.org/showthrea...trap-in-school
It seems strange to read these reminiscences from that bygone era. Some pupils were belted for trivial reasons. It seems especially harsh that a pupil was belted for a wrong spelling (which pupils with dyslexia could be prone to do) .
As in every walk of life there are good and bad. As someone has already said, politicians who interfere with the system 'to improve' it are responsible for teachers leaving the profession in droves because of the stress involved in implementing 'the improvements'. Perhaps if more attention was paid to teaching the fundamentals of writing and basic maths our young wouldn't be struggling to cope in the world of work.
The teacher who left his mark on me appears in both staff photos that were recently posted on the Thurso Heritage Society Facebook page. I pity him. Although I hope he is still with us.
I was sorry to see recently that one of my old teachers had passed away. He taught technical subjects at Thurso High School for many years.
http://dct.myfamilyannouncements.co....640748/pollock
He taught me woodwork, metalwork and technical drawing in second year. These were not subjects that I excelled in and so I dropped them when I went into third year. But I am sure that others chose these subjects for O grades and used these skills to get good jobs in later life.
Condolences to Mr Pollock’s family and friends. Teaching is a tough job. Unlike most jobs, it’s full-on most of the time.
Thats a shame Mr Pollock was a good teacher, old school.
85 is good innings though
Mr Pollock, Mr Rogalski?, Mr Laybourne (I think that his wife was a teacher at the school), Mr Fishbourne? and Mr Baikie were the technical teachers when I was a pupil at Thurso High School.
Some of the pupils in my class were intrigued with Mr Pollock's strong Fife accent and did impressions of it when he was out of the room, but not in an unpleasant way.
I remember some of those teachers. Bill Baikie was larger than life. So were many others. It would be interesting to meet them all again.
Alex Salmond always reminded me of Bill Baikie. For good and not so good reasons. A bit of both really. Life would be duller without them.
I never had Mr Baikie the technical teacher, as a teacher except one day when the class's regular technical teacher was absent, he seemed ok to me.
However my most vivid memory of him was on Sports day 1975 when I was in First year at Thurso High School, when if I remember correctly, there was a staff versus pupils cricket match. Mr Baikie must have been hit in the face with a cricket ball, his face was bleeding. I am not sure if there were any further staff versus pupils cricket matches after that.
Is Mr Baikie still with us?
I heard of pupils playing in the staff vs pupils cricket match purely for the opportunity to throw a cricket ball at the head of their least favourite teacher without getting into trouble.
Naughty boys!!! I can't remember cricket being played much at Thurso High school back in the nineteen seventies, I would have liked to have played it as I didn't exactly shine at the other sports, perhaps I would have been better at cricket. The P.E. teachers in my day were Mr Kidd, Mr Brookes and a Mr Dewar (who came to the school in my later years).
I work at a school elsewhere in the country now and nowadays pupils can study for qualifications such as Higher etc in P.E., I can't remember pupils studying for P.E. qualifiications back in the nineteen seventies. Also classes have male and female pupils in them, rather than the all male or all female P.E. classes of the nineteen seventies.
Does this funeral announcement below relate to Mr Baikie the Technical teacher?
http://ajl.myfamilyannouncements.co....4249340/baikie