Among staff working in schools without academy status, only 10 per cent of senior leaders and seven per
cent of teachers think the extra autonomy has a beneficial effect in the classroom.
The report, entitled «They are children... not robots, not machines - The Introduction of Reception Baseline Assessment», discovered that 60 per cent of teachers do not think baseline assessment scores give an accurate reflection of children's attainment, while only eight per
cent of teachers think baseline assessment is a fair and accurate way to assess children.
According to a national survey of 1,000 teachers, 2,224 11 to 19 - year - olds and 2,675 workers, conducted by the Prince's Trust and HSBC, 31 per
cent of teachers think it's more important to develop soft skills than get good grades.
According to research, a staggering 95 per
cent of teachers think this is true.
The research also showed that 81 per cent of participants behaviour in school improved and how 87 per
cent of teachers thought there had been a positive impact on student attitudes towards their future.
Research carried out for IT consultancy BJSS shows that two - thirds of teachers feel they can not effectively teach coding to those aged eight to 15, and 83 per
cent of teachers thought it was important for the Department for Education (DfE) to provide better training.
Not exact matches
Over two thirds (68 per
cent)
think the use
of VR technology to overcome financial or physical barriers that some students face is desirable and as well as these uses, three in four
teachers (74 per
cent) stated that there will be a positive effect on the design and creativity skills
of students.
In a recent survey, the Association
of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) found that 73 per cent of trainee and newly qualified teachers (NQTs) had thought about leaving the profession, citing increased wo
Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) found that 73 per
cent of trainee and newly qualified
teachers (NQTs) had thought about leaving the profession, citing increased wo
teachers (NQTs) had
thought about leaving the profession, citing increased workloads.
59 per
cent of teachers have considered quitting in the last six months, according to a new YouGov poll for the
think tank LKMco and education company Pearson.
«
Teachers do need to become very familiar with the content, and also to understand that for this curriculum, Digi Tech, at least probably 50 per
cent of the curriculum focuses on developing types
of thinking skills which support problem solving and the use
of digital systems,» — Paula Christophersen.
We all know that recruitment and retention in teaching is an issue, but even we were surprised when we conducted a survey
of over 1,000 UK
teachers in June last year, which revealed that 61 per
cent of teachers were
thinking of leaving teaching.
Reporting the findings
of an annual survey
of Australian parents, grandparents and guardians, Monash University academics Associate Professor Shane Phillipson and Associate Professor Sivanes Phillipson say 84 per
cent think their child's
teacher is highly educated but a smaller number don't agree.
The UCU's report analysed the results
of 1.3 million young people over a three year period and found that 75 per
cent of predicted grades were «over-predicted», with students failing to reach the grades their
teachers thought they would, while nine per
cent of grades were «under - predicted».
The research involved surveying 1,100 school leaders, the results
of which suggested that 82 per
cent of mainstream schools in England do not have sufficient funding to adequately provide for pupils with SEND; 89 per
cent of school leaders believe cuts to local authority services have had a detrimental impact on the support their school receives for pupils with SEND; three - quarters
of schools have pupils who have been waiting longer than expected for assessment
of special educational needs or an education, health and care plan; and 88 per
cent of school leaders
think initial
teacher training does not adequately prepare
teachers to support pupils with SEND.
Seventy - eight per
cent of primary school
teachers think tech literacy is as important as reading and writing.
For
teachers, the top three were: promoting students» independent and critical
thinking (61 per
cent); promoting knowledge
of citizens» rights and responsibilities (57 per
cent); and promoting respect for and safeguard
of the environment (51 per
cent).
Twenty - one per
cent of the 381
teachers surveyed
thought additional autonomy had a positive impact in their classroom.
Research from the UCL Institute
of Education, commissioned by the NUT and ATL, showed that over 90 per
cent of teachers did not
think Baseline Assessment was a fair and accurate way
of assessing children.
Even six per
cent of teachers said they
thought 1 was the highest grade at GCSE, though 100 per
cent of heads got the question correct.
The survey by The Key, a leadership and management support service, also revealed that almost 90 per
cent of school leaders
thought cuts to council services had a «detrimental impact» on the support their institutions received for SEND, and 88 per
cent believe initial
teacher training does not adequately prepare
teachers to support pupils with additional needs.
The survey, for the National Union
of Teachers (NUT) by race equality think tank Runnymede Trust, found a third (32 per cent) of male and 27 per cent of female teachers did not feel staff were comfortable talking about race or
Teachers (NUT) by race equality
think tank Runnymede Trust, found a third (32 per
cent)
of male and 27 per
cent of female
teachers did not feel staff were comfortable talking about race or
teachers did not feel staff were comfortable talking about race or sexism.
Dr Zubaida Haque, research associate at the Runnymede Trust, said: «Government and school leaders should be concerned that over 60 per
cent of black and ethnic minority
teachers are
thinking of leaving the teaching profession.