Homeschool Teaching Assistant, Tanzania

Homeschool Teaching Assistant, Tanzania

Up to five academy trusts are at loggerheads with unions over their plans to shake up teachers’ pay and conditions – which could see staff go unpaid during the summer holidays, Schools Week understands.

It has also been revealed that another trust recently backed down on similar plans, following discussions with the Association of School and College Leaders and the National Education Union.

Bradford Diocesan Academies Trust (BDAT) wanted to shake up notice periods for its staff, which unions said would remove a protection in teachers’ pay and conditions which requires notices to be issued on three dates during the year to make sure staff can secure new jobs.

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Shock, horror! A third of all school staff have turned to alcohol to cope with workplace stress or anxiety in the last year, according to research from the Education Support Partnership.

Are you surprised it’s only a third? And what does ‘turned to alcohol’ mean, anyway?

Two small glasses of pinot and an M&S meal for two to say TFI Friday, or being found slumped in the boiler room surrounded by empty cans of Tennent’s Super lager?

At 37 percent, compared with teachers at 30%, heads and leaders are even more inclined to seek the solution to those poor SATs results at the bottom of a glass. But then, management salaries can afford a bigger booze bill.

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Schools are “haemorrhaging” staff with two in five teachers planning to quit the profession within the next five years because of their unbearable workloads, a major union has warned.

Despite government efforts to tackle the issue, the majority of teachers (56 per cent) say their work-life balance has worsened over the past year, a survey for the National Education Union (NEU) has found.

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A girl who tried to kill herself after spending months in an isolation booth at school has said she felt "alone, trapped and no-one seemed to care".

The teenager, who has autism, had no direct teaching and ate her lunch in the room, away from friends.

Her mother said for months she was unaware of what was happening to her daughter and called on the government to improve guidance for schools.

The Department for Education says pupil welfare must always be put first.

Its guidelines say children should be in isolation for no longer than is necessary.

'Sit in silence'

In a letter to the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme, the teenager - who we are calling "Sophie" - said: "I decided I'd rather die than be in isolation because of the mood it left me in.

"I felt alone and trapped at school for such a long time that I felt as though it would be best, as no-one seemed to care anyway."

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TLGWest LondonClassroom Teacher

Starting Salary:  £22,806 - £27, 829 (FTE)Hours:37.5 per week. 2 posts are available.

Closing Date: 5pm, Tuesday 7^th May 2019

Location: TLG West London

Working as part of the TLG centre team in the West London Centre, the Classroom Teacher post provides a unique opportunity to support young people experiencing educational crisis.

TLG West Londonis a centre for alternative education provision delivering tailored social and educational interventions for young people. Working in partnership with St Paul’s Church Hammersmith, the Classroom Teacher will play an integral role in enabling young people to get their lives back on track, through delivering innovative programmes and working with the Centre Manager to ensure that the education centre achieves success.

The role involves assisting with the planning and delivery of lessons, leading sessions as timetabled and providing one-to-one support as appropriate to bring excellence to the young people’s learning experience.  The individual will also act as a link between TLG’s students, their families and the church community.

We are looking to recruit an individual with a strong and vibrant Christian faith. TLG is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff including volunteers to share this commitment.  The successful applicant will be required to undertake a DBS check. 

To find out more and download an application pack, please visit www.tlg.org.uk. For further information email recruitment@tlg.org.uk or phone 01274 900380.

Interviews will take place on Thursday 16^th May 2019.

TLG Fast Track Education Intern 2019-20

If you are a graduate wanting to gain experience in the working world, then look at coming to work for one of the most exciting and fastest growing charities out there!

TLG is a Christian charity, working through local churches to support struggling children across the country. Fast Track is for those who are VERY excited by this mission, who have bags of energy and are ready to get stuck in! This paid internship is a unique leadership opportunity, guaranteed to fast track your career by 11 months of big investment and development.

Are you interested in teaching or a career working with disadvantaged children and young people? Fast Track’s Education Route offers a year of teaching practice and training in one of TLG’s Education Centres nationally and we’re looking for excellent teachers and practitioners in the making who will bring a crucial role in bringing hope and a future to struggling children! We also provide an option of a two-year internship, including a teaching qualification paid for by us.

Places are currently available in Bradford, Wakefield, Nottingham and West London. We are looking for candidates with a strong and vibrant Christian faith. The successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced disclosure via the DBS.

We also have internship organisational development opportunities at our National support office in West Yorkshire.

To find out more and register your interest, please visit www.tlg.org.uk/fast-track. For further information email recruitment@tlg.org.uk or phone 01274 900380.

Limited spaces are available on the internship and applications will be reviewed at regular intervals throughout the recruitment period. To be considered for a place, please submit your application as soon as possible.

Schoolteachers have been offered security advice from police following protests from angry parents about proposed LGBT-inclusive relationship sex education reforms.

MPs recently voted overwhelmingly in favour of making relationship education compulsory in primary schools and sex education compulsory in secondary schools, ensuring children are taught about different family models from the age of five.

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The UCL research comparing teachers’ reasons for coming into the profession and their reasons for leaving or wanting to leave makes heartbreaking reading. The title says it all: "What motivates people to teach, and why do they leave? Accountability, performativity and teacher retention."

It shows that Britain isn’t just squandering the greatest resource it has to improve the lives of young people but that the profession I have believed in for so long has lost its way.

Thinking about this takes me back to the start of my own career, all the hopes and fears, the nervousness that every teacher should feel when meeting classes and subsequently new classes for the first time. I was daunted, yes – but I wasn’t crushed by the responsibility and the expectations placed upon me.

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Some newly qualified teachers are working a 54-hour week – putting them on an hourly rate that is only 10 per cent more than the minimum wage, the NEU teaching union said this morning.

The union will debate a motion on fair pay for teachers at its annual conference in Liverpool next week.

At a pre-conference briefing in central London this morning, joint general secretary Kevin Courtney said some teachers in London couldn't afford new clothes and were turning to charity shops.

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