From: Jock
I appreciate that incompetence runs deep in education circles, but there's something not right here all the same.
This man was a head of department. He had been promoted to this level over the years.
Sheesh kebabs....
On 23 Oct 2010, at 16:47, Mario (LAF) wrote:
> The first teacher banned for life for being useless
>
> By Sarah Harris and Arthur Martin
> Last updated at 1:27 PM on 23rd October 2010
>
>
> A teacher who is judged to be incapable of ever improving his work has
> become the first to be banned for life from the classroom due to
> incompetence.
>
> Nisar Ahmed will never reach 'requisite standards' of teaching and
> cannot work in state schools again, a panel ruled.
>
> The General Teaching Council for England found the 46-year-old guilty of
> serious professional incompetence and said there was a risk that pupils
> would be seriously disadvantaged if he was ever allowed to return to
> lessons.
>
> Mr Ahmed was head of business studies at the John O'Gaunt Community
> Technology College in Hungerford, Berkshire, from September 2007 to
> January 2009.
>
> He had taught for a total of 13 years at schools across the South-East.
>
> His management of lessons was 'invariably' below standard, the GTC
> disciplinary panel was told.
>
> The school, which has more than 450 pupils, aged 11 to 18, gave Mr Ahmed
> 'extensive formal and informal' support for more than a year but he
> failed to improve.
>
> Just 13 teachers have been banned from the profession for fixed periods
> for incompetence since 2000.
>
> Mr Ahmed is the first to receive a prohibition order without time limit.
>
> His organisation of classes was deemed 'persistently poor', with class
> registers regularly left uncompleted and student work folders 'poorly
> managed' and sometimes left at home or in his car when they were needed
> in lessons.
>
> Marking was persistently not done or delayed and feedback to pupils was
> inadequate, GTC committee chair Rosalind Burford said.
>
> She added: 'You regularly failed to undertake proper lesson plans. This
> resulted in a lack of pace and challenge in your lessons and a lack of
> clear learning objectives.'
>
> These 'fundamental' failings had a significantly adverse effect on his
> students, she said, adding: 'We could not be satisfied that you have an
> appropriate level of insight into your shortcomings.
>
> 'Thus, we felt you posed a significant risk of repeating your actions.'
>
> Two years ago, GTC chief executive Keith Bartley said there could be as
> many as 17,000 'substandard' members of staff among the 500,000
> registered teachers in the UK.
>
> The small number banned for incompetence will spark fears these teachers
> are simply being recycled.
> ahmed
>
> Mr Ahmed had been placed under a formal capability process in December
> 2008. He resigned shortly after learning his case would be considered by
> governors.
>
> Michael Wheale, the school's former headteacher who gave evidence at the
> hearing, was unavailable for comment.
>
> Its current head Neil Spurdell said: 'Under a capability process,
> teachers do have the opportunity to improve against certain targets and
> many do.
>
> 'The bottom line is you can't have pupils disadvantaged by inadequate
> teaching. They only have one chance at this.'
>
> Last night Mr Ahmed, who lives in Reading with his wife and their two
> children, said he would be appealing the GTC decision.
>
> He added: 'They have made a scapegoat out of me. I'm deeply unhappy
> about it and don't deserve to be the first to be struck off for life.'
>
>
> Read more:
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1322989/The-teacher-banned-life-useless.html#ixzz13CIePDcc
>
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