Teachers to 'face sack sooner'
Schools are to be given tough new powers to weed out incompetent teachers under Government plans to drive up education standards.
Poor teachers face tougher system under shake-up
- Schools will be given more freedom to manage their teachers through simpler, less prescriptive appraisal regulations.
- The three-hour limit on observing a teacher in the classroom so that schools have the flexibility to decide what is appropriate will be removed.
- Yearly assessments will be introduced under the new Teachers Standards - the key skills that teachers need; scrap more than 50 pages of unnecessary guidance.
- The Government plan to stop bad teachers leaving one school and then resurfacing in another school.
- Old schools will have to pass on information to prospective employers, on request, about whether a teacher is incompetent.
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