article_snippet: Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, has warned of a 'crisis' in the teaching profession .
article_snippet: Mary Bousted, the ATL’s general secretary, told the union’s annual conference in Liverpool yesterday that an increased workload and bureaucracy had made teaching an unappealing profession.
article_snippet: Mary Bousted, the ATL’s general secretary added that would-be teachers are meeting more experienced teachers who tell would-be teachers 'this is no career to enter'.
article_snippet: Miss Bousted described teaching as being ‘incompatible with a normal life’ because it is ‘monitored to within an inch of it is life’ due to the demands of heads keen to impress Ofsted inspectors.
article_snippet: Miss Bousted told delegates that former education secretary Michael Gove said before former education secretary Michael Gove entered office that teachers should be highly valued and former education secretary Michael Gove wanted to give the profession more freedom over how to teach. '
article_snippet: If that was former education secretary Michael Gove intention, and I am sure that was former education secretary Michael Gove honest intention
article_snippet: Is it, I wonder, because trainee and newly-qualified teachers see very early on just what teaching has become and decide that trainee and newly-qualified teachers do not want to be a part of what teaching?
article_snippet: she said trainee teachers are put off during work placements by the prospect of heavy workloads, excessive monitoring and poor pay (posed by model) '
article_snippet: Is it that trainee teachers learn as trainee teachers work with exhausted and stressed colleagues that teaching has become a profession which is incompatible with a normal life? '
article_snippet: Trainee and newly-qualified teachers cannot fail to understand that, despite Michael Gove's intentions, teaching has become a profession monitored to within an inch of teaching life.'
article_snippet: Dr Bousted added: 'Seeing what teaching has become, and what the prospect of a career in teaching holds for Trainee and newly-qualified teachers, is what teaching in any way surprising that trainee and newly-qualified teachers make the decision to make use of trainee and newly-qualified teachers talents and abilities in a different profession? '
article_snippet: It is sad - but true - that students and NQTs are being told by the teachers they meet during training that with current workload, inspection and pay, this is no career to enter.
highlights_snippet: Mary Bousted said trainees are put off by workload, poor pay and excessive monitoring .