Support Staff Conference May 4, 2007
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I attended a meeting this morning in Haddington.
Various members of Education support staff had gathered to discuss improving links and communication between the differing professions that support the learning and teaching process within East Lothian.
The primary idea is to hold a conference for support staff in order for them to get to know each other, find out about what each job fully entails, network and generally help raise the profile of an important and essential part of the education process thats often forgotten about.
The head of education, Don Ledingham, is passionate about all staff being fully involved in the education process and is working to try to break down the traditional hierarchical structures that can exist within schools to enable this to happen.
We talked about how our varying roles as support staff were generally treated by members of management teams in educational establishments, and it became obvious that recognition of staff’s contributions and value by management, were, to put it mildly, patchy.
The need for teamwork within schools was identified as crucial to enhancing the experience of the pupils at our schools and no doubt this will be one of the topics that will take centre stage when the education support workers conference takes place later on in the year.
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