However, academics also warned that poorer pupils don't benefit from extra reading time unless they are guided by a skilled teacher, and
a teaching union claimed schools would struggle to find the extra time in the day.
But the new system has caused widespread confusion among teachers, parents and employers, with
teaching unions claiming the majority remain unclear on what these new grades mean in practice.
Not exact matches
Many institutions depend heavily on graduate student
teaching: a 2003 report by agitators for a graduate student
union at Yale, [16] for instance,
claims that «70 % of undergraduate
teaching contact hours at Yale are performed by transient teachers: graduate teachers, adjunct instructors, and other teachers not on the tenure track.»
In 2013, the parents of two students at a school in Encinitas, California filed a lawsuit against the Encinitas
Union School District (EUSD)
claiming that yoga is a religious practice that should not be
taught in public schools.
The
teaching union will support a walk out on Tuesday 5 July, after 91 per cent of its members who voted backed the action,
claiming significant change was needed.
Members of the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS)
teaching union have threatened
union action
claiming salaries have stagnated since 2013.
Nonetheless,
teaching unions have opposed the new contracts,
claiming the changes would cause
teaching assistants to lose around # 400 per month and have warned they would be balloting members for industrial action.
Paying teachers according to how well they perform is set to put Education Secretary, Michael Gove, on a collision course with
teaching unions, who
claim the government is tearing up national pay structures.
More children in England are being
taught by unqualified teachers, a
teaching union is
claiming.
Schools could be breaking the law by asking support staff to
teach lessons when qualified teachers are absent, the National
Union of Teachers has
claimed.
«Regardless of what the
teaching unions might
claim, with over 70 % of the new schools being set up by those working within the education sector itself, the reality is that their members are becoming the driving force of new free schools - particularly in disadvantaged areas where the need for good schools is even more pressing.»
Other
teaching unions have also been critical at the pace of implementation of assessment reform, which they
claim is adding to teacher workload.
He spotlights three organizations he
claims are leading a movement to reform teachers
unions and make them partners in an attempt to improve the quality of public education — NewTLA, a dissident faction in the United Teachers of Los Angeles, Educators for Excellence, a reform group in New York started by two young
Teach For America graduates, and
Teach Plus, an organization that has gained traction in several states, whose goal is to «engage early career teachers in rebuilding their profession to better meet the needs of students and the incoming generation of teachers.»
Why are they seemingly so committed to their students, schools and jobs that they spend copies amounts of their own time and money improving their
teaching skills and knowledge, when they and their
unions are simultaneously working so hard to shorten work days and get rid of workplace rules, as you
claim?
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