LA Policies

Workforce Reform

This document relates to Workload and Workforce Reforms and it answers many of the questions asked by schools. Obviously the NUT welcomes the training provided to Teaching Assistants, in order that they can support teachers.The NUT believes in the principle that every class should have a Qualified Teacher and a Teaching/Learning Assistant.
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Guidance on the National Agreement

This guidance refers to changes in the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document relating to the National Agreement that will come into force in September 2003. It proposes that teachers should have support so that they can focus on teaching and learning and have a reasonable work/life balance and that headteachers and those in a leadership role should also have support to perform leadership tasks and have a reasonable work/life balance
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Guidance on Classroom Observation

Classroom observation should take place in the context of an agreed school policy for monitoring and evaluation, which identifies ground rules and procedures. Teachers have a right to expect that this will be carried out sensitively, unobtrusively and professionally. See full document (64K).