Recommendation 1 – replacing Appendix B with set of standards from GTCS.
Despite 64% of people who responded to McCormac say that Appendix B suitable for implementing Curriculum for excellence the report recommends the replacing the prescribed duties with a set of standards. How was these standards to be measured? Will there be a standardisation across schools, local authorities? If teacher’s are to be measured against standards are we moving towards performance related pay? More questions that answers.
Recommendation 3 – scrapping of Appendix E.
Appendix E lists the duties that teachers are not expected to routinely perform. Again there was an over 50 % (54%) of those who responded who felt that appendix E should not change. There are tasks on the list that teachers do routinely do – photocopying, money for lunches – but how can be balance doing non-teaching tasks with teaching? Should McCormac have acknowledged that some these tasks are routinely done by teachers and accept it but still have some of these tasks that teachers do not do on a regular basis.
