As I await the publication of the McCormac report later this morning, I read with interest the following on the BBC website -
‘The report is also expected to recommend scrapping the list of tasks teachers should not do, such as photocopying or other non-teaching tasks.’
I had come across this part of McCrone when I completed the survey for the McCormac report. At the time I asked fellow teachers if they were aware of this – they weren’t and knew in practice this was not feasible.
I do not think I am alone in having done many non-teaching tasks even in my short of teaching. Here are an example of a few -
- photocopying
- taking trip and lunch money
- asking the children what they want from the days lunch menu
- putting up displays
I am sure this list is just minimal. There are plenty of other things that teachers are asked to do that are done anyway.
Learning assistants are there to help the teachers with the children – many do these tasks as well often in hours they are not paid for.
I hope that when the report is published that the news reporting focusses on the important points not the things that as teachers we already do.
