The Secret Teacher: performance-related pay will force teachers to avoid A* pupils like clever lepers

Our anonymous blogger is incredulous at the suggestion of paying teachers on how their students to achieve their estimated - again in the real world, it will not work

It is with disbelief and joy that I read the recommendation that "a group of deputies" are recommending performance-related pay for teachers. To their credit, at least want to tie the game with the added value, rather than the number that the teacher receives. For the value of the uninitiated, the value added (VA) is the scoring system used by schools, based on monitoring data from Key Stage 2 to determine if they have reached beyond their means of perception.

So let's break it down: monitoring data can be taken into account socio-economic scores on ethnic origin, attendance and satellites. If your child has a bad day, the data that follows them through the school system suggests that they are of small capacity. Similarly, if children have the test, it is expected that all academic work ahead will be to this standard. If the school uses data effectively to all ie.

Because throughout the country, it is for each school to interpret these data to demonstrate the added value. The eagle looked more of them detected a potential problem and here. Many schools also use the Fischer Family Trust to interpret the data, then the targets based on information they get. What would be great, if not for the fact that there are four different models of APC, you can choose, and still say that "the precision of estimates varies FFT ... only "indicators" and should not be as predictions or rigid targets. "Hmmm.

The bottom line is: every school sets 'value' of his pupils, and aims to be proposed, and be able, on this basis. Therefore, there is no national standard.

How, then, you can expect to celebrate the teachers to explain on the basis of this? And that's before you even get to the inconsistent, the hormone tangled beautiful lady that we teach every day.

As a representative sample, our current GCSE cohort have a pregnancy of six students who are on social services due to problems at home, a drug-based exclusion, and that's before you get those with the fewest problems.

Our results based on the new system, you can feed them every three months bromide before exams? Maybe you could organize a "transition day" when I go to elementary and secondary schools hit heavy objects together, as they write their SAT scores to proceed a little?

• Third, and perhaps most damaging, that the "A" students? If the result of this stupidity is to increase the level, sorry for the nerd. Not content with being bogwashed throughout his academic career as a bright spark, staff now keep the lepers as very intelligent. With everything to lose and nothing to gain, A / A * Candidate is the albatross around the neck of the appraised value of the teacher.
• Surely this is exactly the opposite of what our masters are waiting? I have visions of a dystopian project - say about Slough, where it is not too dark - where teachers compete for the child care that C / D limits, not because they want to be lazy, but because they get in good with them, or are a beautiful family and less likely to roll out tests on time.

Also, what would happen if the class is not setting a national exam this year? I can not wait to see the proposed model based on the achievement of the previous year.

And this is then covered by the recommendation that is applicable to the profession are in the class before starting his teaching pedagogy, to ensure they are appropriate. What I am sure this is what happens very closely on the PGCE course in the first month. Or is it - where are they again? Oh, that's true. This government is phasing them out.

. Master Secret is now a sixth-grade head and former head of the department in the south of England.
could be our next Secret Master?

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