Once upon a time there was a supply teacher. He went to three different schools in four days – in different towns and cities.
All were good schools on so many levels, each with students who had a wide range of SEN either in mixed-ability settings or grouped by ability.
In each school, he was greeted by the cover-coordinator and given a list of the classes he would be covering for that day, together with the obligatory basic information on the whereabouts of the staffroom, toilets and so on.
What he noticed was that in none of the schools was he given any information at all about the people he would be mostly working with – the students themselves. None of the students. Not even the neediest.
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