Mr Manby, like every other teacher, has to produce an interim report which shows the students current grades. This is done every half-term and is done to see if they’re improving or not. Mr Manby has to attend parents every term to discuss the students progress and write done any targets to help the achieve.
As a member of the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), Mr Manby has even more roles but they’re split between the other members of the SLT. One of these roles is financial management. Mr Manby is in managing the schools budget and leasing the school/facilities. He isn’t full in charge of financial management; he only helps Mr Horsley who is fully in charge of it. He helps Mr Horsley identify what things the school needs to buy such as stationary and exercise book. He is also in charge of recruiting new staff and supply teachers. He has to look at the person who is applying to be a teacher’s CV, job description and person specification and see whether or not they’re good enough for the job. He may look for supply teachers on the internet for example . Mr Manby works with the following external agencies: Police, social services, ofsted, the Local Education Authority (LED) and community groups. One of his key roles as a SLT member is to establish a framework and create a guideline for how thing should be done in school. This is important as he want teaching to be to its best possible standard.
There are two types of training: on-the-job training – training that takes place on the work place for example giving the employee an induction of the job and off-the-job training – training that take place outside the workplace such as a course in health and safety. Training is beneficial for workers as it helps them to develop more skills and gives them more experience.
Mr Manby has received training in In-Service Education and Training (INSET). This type of training takes place inside the school and help Mr Manby to develop his skills in a specific area such as teaching strategies. He has also received training in the National College for Leadership (NCSL). This type of training helps to inspire leaders. Mr Manby has been to the Local Education Authority (LEA) meetings and events to further develop his skills. There is a meeting every Wednesday’s after school at Greenford High School in which they get teaching materials to help them with their job. Every teacher must attend at least six every year. There is also a Continued Professional Development (CPD) course that is available to every teacher. This course helps the teachers to improve and broaden their knowledge in key areas (such as areas they aren’t good at) and help to develop their skills. This course is run by Mr Mather – the schools training manager.
A wide range of skills are required by teachers to get through their everyday job. Mr Manby has got many qualities and skills which help him get through everyday life. One of the most important skills he has, is his organisation skills. Without this, Mr Manby will be all over the place due to the heaps amount of work he does every day. Another key skill Mr Manby has is stress management. This is also important because he has a massive workload and if he is stress, it will mean he won’t be able to do his job to a good standard which will add even more stress to him. Other qualities he has is a sense of humour which helps him get a better bond with other teachers and students, presentational skills to give presentations to students which will give them a better learning environment, work prioritising to the more important task over such as the timetable - If this isn’t completed, the students won’t know what lessons they have which will cause a major problem. Mr Manby has to have good numeracy skills as he is partially in charge of the schools budget. This will help him to budget it accurately and not spend more than what is needed.
Science Teacher – Ms Saleem:
A Science teacher is one of many subject teachers. They are responsible for educating the students about science such as atoms, space, plants etc. A science teacher can also teach a Physics, Chemistry or Biology at GCSE and A level’s depending on what her speciality is.
Ms Saleem one of the science teacher who works at Greenford High School. Her main responsibility as a science teacher is to ensure their students get the best possible grade they can achieve. To do this, she has to try and give as much knowledge as possible to her students and try to take minimum days off. As well as being a science teacher, she is also form tutor. As a form tutor, she has to take the register on a daily basis, deal with incident slips and check if the students are arriving on time to lessons. During form times, she has to plan activities and quizzes to motivate the students.
Ms Saleem has many different roles but her main role as a science teacher is to teach the student. Ms Saleem believes that in order for the student to learn better, the lessons have to be practical and interactive so her role is to organising practical work such as experiments and plan lessons on the interactive white board such as presentation or activities. But as practical work can be dangerous, she is responsible for the student’s safety. Other roles Ms Saleem has, is helping students with their UCAS application for university, monitoring attendance & punctuality, liaising with PSW and the 6th form team and organising trips to places like amusement parks. Ms Saleem also has a whole school responsibility in which she ensures that the students are wearing the correct uniform, attending parents evening to discuss the student’s progress and supporting whole school strategies. Mr Rugg is Ms Saleem’s line manager as he is the head of science. Ms Saleem has to go to him if there is any problems such as a student constantly misbehaving or if a student wants to drop the course.
Her role as a science teacher is more important than a form tutor because her teaching determines what grades the students get; which will determine what courses they do at A level or university thus affecting what job they do in the future.
During lessons, in order to get the best out of the students, Ms Saleem has to give the students a starter activity such as a word search or a crossword. This will not only warm up their brains, but it will also give them a brief overview of what the lesson is about. Before the lesson starts, Ms Saleem welcomes the student into her classroom to get a better bond with them. She also supports the students during the lessons if they’re stuck on something such as a piece of homework and encourages independent thinking. As well as this, she also breaks down information so it’s easier for the students to understand for example she goes through a question bit-by-bit and if there is any part the student doesn’t understand, she goes back through it.
Ms Saleem has to have a wide range of skills as a science teacher and a form tutor. She has to have good numeracy and ICT skills so she can draw up graphs on spreadsheet and compare them over the weeks to see if the student’s are improving or not. She has to have good communications, speaking and listening skills like every teacher at Greenford High school as without this they won’t be able to teach the students well enough.
Ms Saleem has many responsibilities. These include: Assessing the students work and giving them feedback of what went well and what could be improved as well as monitoring their progress, delivering lessons that engage student and help them to achieve. If the students are underachieving or a arriving constantly late to lessons, then Ms Saleem has to report the students the year team or parent and a member of the SLT. Ms Saleem has to have access to SIMM in order to do this. With SIMMS she can see when the students aren’t coming to lessons or are coming late. She can look through previous records to see if this is happening constantly
Ms Saleem teaches science lessons to students in years 7 -11 and only biology to students in year 12 and 13. For the student in years 12 and 13, she has to make a decision on whether she wants to allow certain student to do the course; for instance people she knows who will do well.
Ms Saleem has 10 A* - C GCSE’s and 3 & a half A level’s. She has also received a Bachelor of Science (BSC) in biological science and a PGCE in biology science. This helps her to perform her job well as she has more experience and knowledge. This means she can give better teaching to the students compared to if she only had fewer GCSE’s or if she didn’t have a BSC or PGCSE. Ms Saleem should go on the School-Centred Initial Teachers Training (SCITT). This training is to help teachers in a particular area of subject (In Ms Saleem’s case Biology) and is run by experienced and practised teachers.
The difference between Ms Saleems’s job and Mr Manby’s job is that Mr Manby has much more roles and responsibility. Due to the face the Mr Manby is the assistant head of Greenford High School he has much more important roles then Ms Saleem, for instance dealing with exclusions, analysing exam results and working with external agencies. Mr Manby has a much bigger say in how the school runs. They do however have the same number of GCSE (10 A* – C) but Ms Saleem has received half more A level then Mr Manby.
Support Worker – Angela:
A Pastoral Support Worker (PSW) is teacher specialised in working with students. A PSW doesn’t teach a particular subject such as Maths or History, they only there to support and guide the students.
Angela is one out of the four pastoral support workers who works at Greenford High school. Her role is to support and guide students who attend the Greenford 6th form (mainly the student in year 12). Her main responsibilities is to help the students in their time on need i.e. if they are struggling with their course, personal problems etc. She is also responsible for monitoring the students’ attendance, punctuality and behaviour. If anything is wrong such as constants absences, she has to report it to Mr Dixon, Mr Jones, Mr Horsley and then Mr Cramer because they are her line manager.
Although Angela didn’t go to university, she has received many different qualifications. These include a Brunel university certificate of education in social science, a counselling course run by Ealing and working with the princes’ trust to get young and unemployed people back to work. She is also part time qualified youth worker and has had experience in working with young people as well as disengaged and disaffected through youth centres. Angela should do the National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) level 1. This qualification is equivalent to three – four GCSE’s and will help Angela take on more responsibility such as head care worker which will mean she get a pay rise. If will also help her if she’s applying to another job.
Angela has received on-the-job training is three particular areas. These areas are: self-harm, counselling and eating disorders. She has also received training off-the-job such as a one day common core course run by Ealing. Angela has to find these training on her own; they are not run by the school.
Angela has a variety of different qualities. One of these includes communication skills – This is crucial as her main role is to help the 6th form student and a good communication skill will mean they can get a better understanding of their problems such as personal issues or stress. Another key quality Angela has is problem solving skill. This again is crucial as this will help her to tackles the student problems. She also has to have a good observation skill to catch people chewing gum. This is important as the school has a strict ‘No Gum’ policy. Another reason she has to have this is to see if there is a person who needs help or support but doesn’t have the courage to go up to and speak to her.
Angela’s main motivation for working as a pastoral support worker is seeing the 6th form students grow up into mature adults. She claims the reason she works isn’t for the money although the pay isn’t bad. Another reason why she works is because she has a passion for the job and loves to work with young people.
The main difference between the Angela’s jobs and Ms Saleem’s job is that Angela’s job doesn’t have to teach the students, only supports them whereas Ms Saleem’s job involves teaching the students in year 7 - 11 as well as the post 16 students. Other differences between the job is that Ms Saleem has more roles and responsibilities then Angela. Ms Saleem has to teach many different classes every day, take the register on a daily basis and many more whereas Angela only has to guide the students (only year 12’s), make sure they are arriving on time to lessons and monitor their behaviour. Ms Saleem has also got more qualifications then Angela although Angela has received more training. There are however some similarities between the two jobs. Such similarities are that Ms Saleem, like Angela, also has to monitor the student’s behaviour and because she is a form tutor, she also helps the students in their time of need.
PEST Analysis
PEST is an analysis that affects the development of a business. It stands for:
Political – Law and regulations that has to be carried out and enforced. E.g. Health and Safety at Work Act.
Economical – How the economy and factors outside that business affects it. E.g. Recession
Social – How social factors affects the business. E.g. An increase in newly qualified teacher means they require training at the workplace.
Technological - How changes in technology and ICT affects the job. E.g. How new software such as SIMMS makes it easier for the user to do their job.
The advantages of using PEST Analysis are:
- Doesn’t take up much time.
- Doesn’t cost a lot.
- Can help a business spot opportunities.
- Help the business to develop further.
However, the disadvantages are:
- Only deals with external factors.
- Factors can increase dramatically therefore making it harder to analyse.
- A change in law requires more training.
When carrying out a PEST analysis, you have to take into consideration the workforce planning. This is when an organisation plans to recruit staff, this includes the process from producing documents such as job adverts, application forms, job description, person specification, interviewing to training and induction.
Political:
When a teacher at Greenford High School is applying for job at Greenford High School, the recruiting staffs has taken out a PEST analysis for them. Because the teacher’s jobs are mainly involved with the students, regulations are applied for them to follow. One important factor each teacher must have, is to have a clean criminal record. This is so the students aren’t in any danger. To make sure she has no criminal record, the school has to conduct a Criminal Records Bureau. When carrying out this, they have to check she they have no previous convictions, haven’t broken the law and are committed to working with the students.
Teacher who are involved with dangerous equipment such as science teacher and technology teachers have to go through a health and safety training procedure in which they are given safety tips, hazards of the work place and thing to do and not to do such as keeping wires tucker in where nobody can trip over them and keeping dangerous equipment away.
When creating a job application it is against the law for them to ask their age as it is breaking the Age Discrimination Act. They are also not allowed to reject a teacher or treat them differently on the basis of her age as it is also breaking Age Discrimination Act. They cannot also reject a teacher based on the gender as it is breaking the Sex Discrimination Act for example a school may feel a male can only apply to teach design technology as it is dealing with heavy machinery and dangerous equipment which cannot be carried out by a female. However there is only one occasion in which they can employ someone based in their gender. They can only do this if it is stated in the job applicant for example if the school needs a teacher for PE to look after the girls. This role can only be given to females. Another discrimination act that affects the Greenford High School is the Race Relations Act. This act means a person cannot be discriminated on the basis of their race.
Every teacher must be paid a minimum £5.73 an hour according to the minimum wage act. This doesn’t affect teachers with important roles such as Mr Manby or Mr Horsley; people who are higher up the organisational triangle but it does affect teachers like Angela or Sheila who are lower down on the organisation triangle.
Every teacher in Greenford High School must be treated equally. They cannot, for example, give one teacher a promotion and not give it to another teacher even though they have worked better and harder than the teacher who got the promotion.
Economical:
London weighting is when someone gets paid a little bit more if they work in London as the cost of living in London if more expensive compared to living in another city in England such as Birmingham or Leeds. If someone doesn’t live in London but works there, they still receive London Weighting. London Weighting only applies to civil servants, teacher’s police officers and airline employees.
England is currently in the recession. This means that jobs are less secure and people are more likely to be made redundant. However, because the teachers are working, they are working public sector. This means they are likely to keep her job and it encourages them when applying to Greenford High school.
The majority of the teachers live inside London. The house prices in London are extremely high so they are likely to take out a mortgage. Due to the increase in interest rate, they will find it difficult to repay the mortgage.
Tax rate has affected teachers like Mr Manby and Mr Cramer who make over £35,000 a year. This means they get 40% tax on their salaries. This can severely affect them especially due to the current economic crises.
The pound is becoming a weaker currency compared to the dollar and euro. This affects the teacher if they want to their exchange currency when going on holiday to a foreign country.
Social:
Greenford High School is becoming a more popular school. This means more students are coming to the school and class sizes will be bigger. This can affect the teaching at Greenford High School as the teachers have to look after and teach more students.
There has been an increase of younger teachers at Greenford High school. This means that they have less experience in teaching skills however it doesn’t mean that they can’t teach. If they are treated differently, it would be breaking the age discrimination and equal opportunities act.
Some teacher like Mr Manby has a lot of roles within Greenford High School. This means he has to work longer and harder which means he has less time for leisure and with his family. This will then lead him to rush his work and is therefore likely to make mistakes. Other teachers such as the admin workers and the pastoral support workers only deal with students outside of lessons. This means they have flexible working hours.
Greenford High School has teachers of different religions like Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs, Christians etc. This means that they are allowed to take religious holidays of like Eid and Diwali. The recruiting staffs at Greenford High School have to look for supply teachers to cover the teachers who are off. This costs the school more money as they have to pay the supply teachers as well as the people who are off.
Every teacher has to attend the INSET training. This training is where the teachers discuss how to develop skills and further their teaching strategies.
Technological:
Technology and software is changing rapidly which Greenford High school has to keep up to date with. One of these software’s is called SIMMS (Single Inline Memory Module).The school uses SIMMS to keep a record of the students details such as name date of birth etc, a copy of the students timetables and is used take the register on a daily basis. SIMMS is a fairly new software so the teachers are required to undergo training in how to use it especially the teachers who have little or very limited ICT skills like Angela.
Another software that is changing is Microsoft Office. Office 2007 has changed completely compared to previous versions such as the interface and where buttons are placed. Greenford High School is currently using Office 2007 which they upgraded from Office 2003. The rapid change of Office 2007 meant it was harder for teachers to use so they had to receive training on how to use it.
Almost every class in Greenford High School has got an interactive whiteboard (IWB). The IWB is a screen that displays a wider and bigger version of the monitor it is connected to. The IWB uses a touch surface so when you touch it, the pointer moved to that position although the ones in Greenford High School only responds to a special pen. There is also a remote that comes with the interactive whiteboard that can zoom on it, freeze it and turn it off. This hardware is useful for giving presentation or showing videos as the whole class can see it. The teachers need to know how to function then pen and the remote so they are given training on how to use it.
