Teachers as push overs?

Hi to all my readers,

I have finally completed my professionalism essay which has been signed, sealed and delivered. I feel as though a load has been taken off my shoulders pheeeewwww! During my planning of the essay I have found a few links and articles that have interested me along the way, one of which was published by the Guardian, which I must warn is a provocative read, especially for someone like me ‘a trainee teacher’. I would like to note this article does refer to school teachers, although us teachers are still the same regardless . This article still applies to those who work in Further Education in this sense.

I would like to quote this from the article “Don’t teachers have the same level of professional expertise as doctors and lawyers?”

Here is David Cameron’s policy. “He said he wanted to give schools “more independence” and that by becoming academies they would have the freedoms to “improve standards the way they see fit”. He also insisted, quite rightly, that “every child is different, with different interests and different talents”.”

Yes! I agree to this and Cameron is going in the right direction. Yet he still interferes with the teaching method and the professional autonomy of teachers. Why is it that they (Government) can interfere with our profession, yet they stay silent for Doctors and Lawyers.

I’ll let you read on.

The link is below.

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2011/sep/19/ebacc-schools-teachers-independent-professional”> . a href=”http://www.theguardian.com/education/2011/sep/19/ebacc-schools-teachers-independent-professional”>http://www.theguardian.com/education/2011/sep/19/ebacc-schools-teachers-independent-professional