Teachers MOT is not a good idea

http://conorfryan.blogspot.com/2009/07/teachers-mot-is-good-idea.html

While there may be great ideals behind validating a teachers ability to teach with preset tests and box ticking score cards, and while I do not have a great deal of sympathy with the so called work and stress levels that teachers purport to go through, I can not help but feel that this exercise is yet another example of gov's attempts to justify itself with pointless, expensive, quango supporting procedures in order to show Joe Public that it does stuff.

How much will it cost - loads.

What will it achieve - absolutely nothing apart from raising the stress levels (on a real basis this time) of teachers trying to attain marks or a score that will allow them to keep a job that just like the rest of real life gets the most benefit in terms of progression and ability through experience, and not by being able to tick boxes.

Yet again another example of fiddling where none is needed, required, or wanted, that will have the reverse effect of that desired - ie will actually drive down standards as teachers try to conform to a set of artificially imposed 'norms'