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Originally Posted by DaveinGermany
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Thanks DaveinGermany, this was pretty much my point... (though I wont falsify marks)
Less, of course I need to be able to spell and count correctly and it is now something that the education system is picking up on after many many years of it being brushed to the side.
The league tables part of my post was simply highlighting a point that as staff we are monitored, judged, and sacked if our gcse results are consistantly not up to scratch. This has caused the movement away from well rounded teaching where teachers teach what each pupil needs and wants. I do believe this is wrong and work as hard as I can to make sure that basics such as literacy and numercy are a major part of each lesson I teach.
Pupils are only taught what they need to be taught to pass the exams but this is changing, as ofsted have changed again what they are looking for in a satisfactory lesson. Schools are now trying to frantically introduce better literacy and numeracy support in every lesson across the school (something which I agree should never have been pushed to the back in the first place).
With regards to the post on marking, as a science teacher I am required to mark books every 6 lessons with one piece in those 6 lessons specifically targetted at literacy. Other schools have other policies and other teachers are not marking books to a good enough standard in many schools. Staff will say this is due to the volume that must be completed in those 6 lessons where as others are just lazy. Again at another school I have worked at I have seen a member of staff sacked for failing to mark correctly.