It’s difficult getting teachers to work in schools where the students are drawn from among the most disadvantaged households. And where they do, they sometimes suffer from the kind of low expectations which won’t help their pupils to achieve more and break out of the poverty trap. If you are a teacher, what would induce you to take your teaching skills and your enthusiasm for change into such an area? When it looked into the issue, the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission found that almost two-thirds of teachers would consider taking on a role in a challenging school if a salary increase were involved. Alan Milburn, former Labour minister and chair of the Commission, said that in making such a decision, ‘Money was by far and away the biggest factor over all the other stuff that one might have expected. CPD, more training opportunities – all paled into insignificance beside the call for higher pay.’ (Surprise! said all the overworked and underpaid teachers reading th
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 07:42:25 +0000
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