Quelques
autres "rubriques", parmi beaucoup d'autres, toujours d'actualité
:
les rapports
parents-profs, la maternelle
à 2 ans, l'ennui
à l'école, les punitions
collectives, le téléphone
portable,
l'état des
toilettes,
le créationnisme...
«
Main basse sur l'école publique »
L'Éducation
Nationale est accusée de « fabriquer des crétins
» et d'entretenir le « chaos pédagogique »,
l'insécurité et le chômage. Eddy Khaldi et Muriel Fitoussi
dévoilent la signification de ces mesures : des associations de
libéraux et de catholiques conservateurs proches du Front national
et de l'Opus Dei sont à l'origine de ces propositions.
Au
nom de la liberté de choix, on prépare une privatisation
de l'Éducation.
LES "MODÈLES"
ANGLO-SAXONS :
(libertés, justice,
système scolaire, éducatif, marché de l'éducation,
homeschooling...aux USA et en Angleterre)
AMERICAN
WAY OF LIFE
BRITISH
WAY OF LIFE
| BRITISH
WAY OF LIFE
Le "modèle" anglo-saxon, libéral ... et blairo-socialiste...
Beuark.
AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE... |
Le
nombre d'assistants (trois fois moins payés que les enseignants)
a triplé en 10 ans. En dix ans, le nombre d’enseignants en Angleterre a augmenté
de 10% (de 399 000 à 440 000)
Les assistants sont supposés travailler sous la supervision étroite d’un enseignant qualifié tout en permettant aux enseignants de disposer de plus de temps pour préparer leurs cours et effectuer les corrections. En fait, la réduction continuelle des budgets d'éducation incite les écoles à faire appel à cette main d'oeuvre bon marché pour remplacer les enseignants manquants. La plupart de ces assistants - payés en moyenne 50 livres (63,5 euros) par jour au lieu de 150 livres (190,5 euros) pour un enseignant remplaçant - ne possèdent pas de diplôme d'enseignant et sont parfois chargés de cours pour lesquels ils n’ont suivi aucune formation. Le syndicat d’enseignants Voice constate que de plus en plus d’établissements scolaires ont abusivement recours à ces assistants sous-payés - budget oblige - et corvéables à volonté plutôt qu'à des enseignants qualifiés. Lord Adonis, secrétaire d’Etat chargé des écoles, s'est borné à préciser que les écoles avaient "le droit de confier les classes aux assistants à condition qu’ils soient étroitement supervisés par des enseignants qualifiés" ...
Increasing number of children being taught by classroom assistants Children are being increasingly taught by untrained classroom assistants, despite fears over lesson standards, teaching union leaders claim. By Graeme Paton, Education Editor - 29 Jul 2008
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 Schools are relying on poorly-paid assistants - most of whom do not have full teaching qualifications - to plug gaps in the teaching workforce leading to accusations of teaching on the cheap. Some physical education lessons are even being taken by staff without training in how to use heavy equipment - fuelling fears that children are at risk of serious injury. But Lord Adonis, the schools minister, insisted that schools should be allowed to leave classes in the hands of assistants, provided they are properly supervised by trained teachers. It followed claims by Voice, the 35,000-strong teaching union, that assistants were being "routinely abused" by schools who demand they work as full teachers for just a fraction of the wage. Speaking at the union's annual conference, delegates said it was cheaper for schools to use support staff than pay for supply teachers - if regular teachers were absent. Most earn an average of just £50 a day, compared to supply teachers who earn £150. Rhena Sturgess, a school nursery nurse from Leicestershire, said: "Teaching assistants are professionals who play a key role in our schools but their hard work, dedication and knowledge of the children should not be taken advantage of by schools that are using them as cheap labour  as cut-price teachers." She said schools were "exploiting them because it's cheaper than bringing in supply teachers and because they can't say 'no'". In the last 10 years, the number of teachers in England has increased by ten per cent from 399,000 to 440,000. At the same time, the number of classroom assistants has soared almost three-fold from 61,000 to 177,000. They are supposed to be used - under the supervision of a fully-qualified staff member - to give teachers more time to plan lessons and mark children's work. But Mrs Sturgess said assistants were often providing lesson cover for teachers, even in PE, where many lack specialist health and safety training. Lord Adonis said: "Provided teaching assistants are properly managed by both teachers and headteachers we don't think it is right to unduly constrain the roles they do in schools." Nick Gibb, the Tory shadow schools minister, said: "Teaching assistants
are a very helpful addition in schools to enable teachers to focus on the
core task of academic teaching, but they should not be used to take classes.
It can only serve to reduce standards of teaching and therefore the quality
of education children are receiving."
Schools 'using' teaching assistants Jul 29, 2008 -
 Schools are cutting corners by using teaching assistants as "cut-price teachers", it has been claimed. Teaching assistants (TAs) are being exploited as "cheap labour" with many regularly asked to take lessons for absentee teachers, sometimes for several days, according to Rhena Sturgess, of Voice, the union for education professionals. TAs have reported being asked to provide cover so that schools do not have to pay for supply teachers, to take over lessons for planned absences, rather than in emergency situations, and many regularly cover more than one day a week, Mrs Sturgess said. Often, cover is not in their job description, and they are not receiving the right training or payment for doing the job. Schools minister Lord Adonis said that in certain circumstances it was "thoroughly appropriate" that TAs take classes. He said: "Provided teaching assistants are properly managed both by teachers and head teachers, I don't think it is right to restrain the roles they can play in schools. But proper supervision is important." At the union's annual conference in Daventry on Wednesday, Mrs Sturgess,
a retired nursery nurse from Leicestershire, is to propose a motion that
the conference "deplores the abuse of teaching assistants by schools
that require them to undertake tasks, such as cover, that are outside their
job description and against government guidance."
Schools exploiting 'cut-price teachers' Jessica Shepherd - Tuesday
July 29 2008 -
 Schools are cutting corners by employing teaching assistants and nursery nurses as "cut-price teachers", it was claimed today. Teaching assistants are being exploited as "cheap labour" because schools do not want to pay for cover, Rhena Sturgess, a retired nursery nurse from Leicestershire said. She said assistants and nursery nurses covered for days at a time and were too intimidated to say no to the demands of heads. Often, cover is not in their job description, and they are not receiving the right training or payment for doing the job. "In some cases, teaching assistants were providing indefinite cover," she said. "I don't think there is a shortage of supply teachers, it is just that nursery nurses and teaching assistants are easier and cheaper," she said. Schools minister Lord Adonis said in certain circumstances it was "thoroughly appropriate" for TAs to take classes. He said: "Provided teaching assistants are properly managed both by teachers and head teachers, I don't think it is right to restrain the roles they can play in schools. But proper supervision is important." He added: "They may lead classes where they have particular special skills, in the arts or music. This is a thoroughly appropriate thing to happen." The teachers' union conference Voice will tomorrow debate Sturgess' motion against "the abuse of teaching assistants by schools that require them to undertake tasks, such as cover, that are outside their job description and against government guidance". She will say: "Teaching assistants aren't required to plan lessons and deliver lessons - it is not usually part of their contract or their job description and they shouldn't be doing that. They aren't trained teachers or higher-level teaching assistants who are trained to deliver lessons and take whole classes." She adds: "In some ways teaching assistants and teachers are like doctors and nurses - all skilled professionals but with different and complementary roles, who are paid (although not enough) according to the training, roles and responsibilities they have. "Teaching assistants are professionals who play a key role in our schools but their hard work, dedication and knowledge of the children should not be taken advantage of by schools that are using them as cheap labour - as cut-price teachers - that are exploiting them because it's cheaper than bringing in supply teachers and because they can't say no." The trades union Unison said last month that teaching assistants should be subject to much tighter controls.
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Présentation
| SOMMAIRE
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| Le
nouveau sirop-typhon : déplacements de populations ? chèque-éducation
? ou non-scolarisation ? |
| Pluralisme
scolaire et "éducation alternative" | Jaune
devant, marron derrière : du PQ pour le Q.I. |
| Le
lycée "expérimental" de Saint-Nazaire |
Le
collège-lycée "expérimental" de Caen-Hérouville|
| L'heure
de la... It's time for ... Re-creation | Freinet
dans (?) le système "éducatif" (?) |
| Changer
l'école | Des
écoles différentes ? Oui, mais ... pas trop !|
L'école
Vitruve |
| Colloque
Freinet à ... Londres | Des
écoles publiques "expérimentales" |
| 68
- 98 : les 30 P-l-eureuses | Et
l'horreur éducative ? |
