Jan C, Reader's Comment 18 of 22, SOS sent to young teachers across NSW, Kate Si

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Jan C, Reader's Comment 18 of 22, SOS sent to young teachers across NSW, Kate Sikora, The Daily Telegraph, 8 December 2011: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sydney-nsw/sos-sent-to-young-teachers-across-nsw/story-e6freuzi-1226216698710 Historical link preserved from the original page.

New South Wales: Do older teachers advise young people to go in for a teaching career? Why?

There are three reasons why young people won't go into teaching -

1. the pay,

the increase of bureaucratic rubbish they have to go through - reams and reams of paper just to get through their first year,
and lack of support from parents, the media and the public.

As an over-50-years-old teacher, I advise young people today to not even consider teaching as a career.

Over 60% of the time is spent on doing things other than teaching - like filing stuff to be checked by the BOS every five years - folders and folders of stuff.

e.g. just yesterday I spent nearly an hour of time photocopying assessment tasks and then putting them in the folder knowing that no one will ever check it, but it has to be done 'just in case'.

I could have made much better use of that time preparing lessons or marking work, etc - but that isn't done with anywhere near the care and attention I did when I started teaching.