2014-12-26 17:00 pass
I recently read an article which said that in primary schools in particular chances of promotion of women teachers are less than men, that men generally get promoted far quicker than woman in primary educations. Is this something you’ve noticed? Or is this something you feel?
No, this is something that is so. I read that article, too. I would have written it myself really and we come back full circle really because it ’s not just teaching. I mean it’s everything that men are getting promotion more quickly than women. In the primary sector, there are far more women teachers than men. But there are more headmasters than headmistresses.
So, where does that leave someone like you? I mean what are the possibilities of your promotion in primary education. At the moment, you are in charge of the section of the school.
Yes, I’m in charge of the infant department which goes from the children who are 3 to the children who are 7 and they transfer when they are 7 to higher up the school which is called the junior department. So I’m in charge of the lower school if you like.
And do you have an ambition in that sense? I mean would you like to be a headmistress?
No, no, no. I would not. I would not like to be a headmistress at all. I
mean this is the next stage of my career were I ambitious. But I basically enjoy being a classroom teacher. Perhaps this gives a clue to why there are not more women heads. I don’t know, I mean in the past, it may have been that, and it may still be. Because boys are brought up to be more ambitious that they are the ones who are going for promotion and quick promotion, I mean the rapid promotion. So they are heads by the time they are thirty and they start out in their career thinking that whereas I enjoy being a class teacher and I was a deputy head before I got this post, but I prefer to be in the classroom with children than sitting at a desk doing administration which is what being a head means if you are a head of a largish school.
Are you pleased that you chose primary teacher as your career? And someone came up to you at school leaving age and was wandering about what they were going to do, would you advise them to follow in your footsteps?
I’m very pleased that I did, well I’m pleased most of the time, Monday morning, I’m not pleased, some mornings during the week and the end of holidays I’m not pleased. I’m a primary school teacher, I mean basically I am. Because I love teaching once and then, I went backing into it, I think that shows I am committed to be a primary school teacher.
2014-12-26 17:00 pass
I recently read an article which said that in primary schools in particular chances of promotion of women teachers are less than men, that men generally get promoted far quicker than woman in primary educations. Is this something you’ve noticed? Or is this something you feel?
No, this is something that is so. I read that article, too. I would have written it myself really and we come back full circle really because it ’s not just teaching. I mean it’s everything that men are getting promotion more quickly than women. In the primary sector, there are far more women teachers than men. But there are more headmasters than headmistresses.
So, where does that leave someone like you? I mean what are the possibilities of your promotion in primary education. At the moment, you are in charge of the section of the school.
Yes, I’m in charge of the infant department which goes from the children who are 3 to the children who are 7 and they transfer when they are 7 to higher up the school which is called the junior department. So I’m in charge of the lower school if you like.
And do you have an ambition in that sense? I mean would you like to be a headmistress?
No, no, no. I would not. I would not like to be a headmistress at all. I
mean this is the next stage of my career were I ambitious. But I basically enjoy being a classroom teacher. Perhaps this gives a clue to why there are not more women heads. I don’t know, I mean in the past, it may have been that, and it may still be. Because boys are brought up to be more ambitious that they are the ones who are going for promotion and quick promotion, I mean the rapid promotion. So they are heads by the time they are thirty and they start out in their career thinking that whereas I enjoy being a class teacher and I was a deputy head before I got this post, but I prefer to be in the classroom with children than sitting at a desk doing administration which is what being a head means if you are a head of a largish school.
Are you pleased that you chose primary teacher as your career? And someone came up to you at school leaving age and was wandering about what they were going to do, would you advise them to follow in your footsteps?
I’m very pleased that I did, well I’m pleased most of the time, Monday morning, I’m not pleased, some mornings during the week and the end of holidays I’m not pleased. I’m a primary school teacher, I mean basically I am. Because I love teaching once and then, I went backing into it, I think that shows I am committed to be a primary school teacher.