Schools in Britain are increasingly struggling to recruit senior teachers, (0) while at the same time finding that newly qualified teachers are ill-prepared to start working in the classroom, a leading teaching union has warned.
Almost 62% of schools have serious problems recruiting teachers on the (25)
pay scale.
14% of them report they have been (26)
to recruit deputy heads and 20% have failed to fill posts for assistant heads.
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, a sample of 1,110 head teachers highlights worries about the quality of the newly qualified teachers (NQTs) whom schools are now relying on to fill posts.
A third of those questioned said the NQTs they (28)
in the past two years were not sufficiently prepared to start working in a school. There was particular concern about their ability to control pupils’ behaviour in lessons.
Almost six (29)
ten were concerned about NQTs’ lack of subject knowledge, and 56% complained about their poor understanding of psychology and children’s development.
The survey came as schools are seeing an exodus from the profession (30)
concerns about workload, pay and conditions.
It will add to growing fears that schools are (31)
for a serious crisis in recruiting and retaining teachers,
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will inevitably have an impact on children’s education.
Promising professionals will leave and would-be leaders among teachers will choose not to take on leadership roles. And that should not be allowed to happen.
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