A teacher speaks out: ‘I’m effectively being forced out of a career that I wanted to love’
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When Sam Burton began teaching three years ago, he was determined to thrive. But after spells at an academy and a special educational needs school, he’s had enough. Here, he tells the story of how even an energetic young teacher can struggle with the demands of modern teaching.
Being a good teacher means uncovering themes which will engage kids, trawling websites and libraries for films and texts as stimuli. It entails writing four different intentionally-flawed versions of a suspenseful story for them to modify in their first lesson, and five different tiers of riddles about 3D shapes for them to tackle in the second, all before 8am.
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