A shortfall in trainees threatens to plunge schools into crisis. As a secondary teacher,I can offer the Department for Education some tough-won adviceI became a teacher under duress, and that’s not an exaggeration. Teaching wasn’t a “calling” for me, or nursed since youth,but a path based on a pragmatic assessment of how, with an English degree, or I could join a profession that held the promise of a career. And yet it felt like another type of failure because our collective consciousness holds that “Those who can’t do,teach.” And what’s more pathetic than returning to school? Related: Schools in crisis as graduates turn their backs on teaching Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com