Teachers should sit exams with students!

To those who said that a teacher should not be made to take the exams cause s/he can know the subject but not be good at exams:

If this is the case, then the whole exam system is senseless because the same argument might apply to the students. And we're in serious trouble if that is true...

I always do every examination paper I ask my students to take and I know many other teachers who routinely do the same.

I like to provide my students with a set of solutions the following day so they can reassure themselves about how they have performed. This process also helps me to make sure I have covered every aspect of the course in my teaching (if not, I make a mental note to do better next year!) and I can speak with authority about how frequently a particular topic is examined.

However, assessing subject knowledge would not tell Ofsted anything much about the effectivess of a particular teacher in a classroom. I have observed many extremely well qualified individuals completely fail to engage at any level with their students.

It'd be brilliant. I don't know if it'd help, but it'd be very funny.

Most teachers would get B's or C's.
There is a reason why they ended up as teachers.

Some just love their subject, and love teaching.
There are plenty of people who teach because they don't feel they need the money, stress or hours of higher paying jobs.

Some just love their subject, and love teaching.
There are plenty of people who teach because they don't feel they need the money, stress or hours of higher paying jobs.

Once they become teachers, they constantly whine about how they need more money to compensate them for the stress and the hours.

The reality is that only those who cannot do anything else become teachers.

That's not what today's headlines seem to imply. Demands for a 10% increase in pay along with a large number of teachers complaining about exactly those things: money, stress and hours.