Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it is a super teacher! The latest suggestion to tackling the attainment gap between rich and poor students, Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw wants to set up a network of “national service teachers”, who will, as The Independent put it, “be parachuted into schools that are failing disadvantaged pupils”.
The idea is that the government will work with Teaching Schools to help “identify and incentivise” the most talented teachers and heads to work in the more challenging schools. These “super teachers” as some parts of the media have dubbed them, will be employed on contracts with central government.
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