Once upon a time, there were professors who passed a competition and ended up holding their posts. The good old days are becoming legendary in Gironde, where already around one in five school teachers is invited to a job interview or to leave wherever they can. This violent situation, set up with the duplication of priority education classes, is gaining in this year the large sections of kindergarten.
GS positions in priority education become profiled
“The priority is to clean up, get rid of the ‘old’ ones and replace them with new blood like start’up.” Clémentine (1) teaches in a large kindergarten section in Gironde and does not lose heart. She, who has been teaching at this level for several years and holds her post in priority education, is called for an interview in Bordeaux. If it is not chosen, it will have to leave its place and find a point of fall where it is possible.
All teachers in the department’s main section in Rep or Rep + have received a “call for applications for specific position giving rise to a maintenance commission” form which does not hesitate to appeal to “the school of trust” .
Asked about what skills?
“To build the school of confidence, the choice was made to combat academic difficulties from the first years of school by supporting the most vulnerable students. This results in the duplication of Grande Section classes in REP and in REP + “, announces the academic inspectorate of Gironde. Current teachers must therefore apply to keep their own post at the start of the 2021 school year!
The sheet lists the skills expected of the candidates: “to implement an explicit pedagogy”, “to exploit the results of the evaluations”, “to be part of a project of evolution of its professional practices”, “with in transversality the use of digital tools “.
Teachers who apply are summoned to a committee of 2 or 3 IENs responsible for selecting the right candidates on criteria that remain unclear. Those who are not accepted or who teach in GS in Rep or Rep + and do not apply forfeit their post automatically. It’s up to them to find another in the department. Conversely, those who are received find themselves labeled GS and will no longer be able to move to follow a class for example.
20% of posts
“Going from 24 pupils to 12 does not justify this procedure at all”, says Marc Vieceli, departmental co-secretary of Snuipp 33. The argument which consists in making believe that teaching in split class requires skills other than those required to all school teachers is specious. We are not on a post of specialized teacher. And it is difficult to say to a teacher who has 30 pupils in kindergarten and who is doing well that he is not able to teach at 12. All the more so as the appointed teachers receive training and support ” But the procedure is the same for duplicate CPs and Ce1s in the department.
Snuipp 33 disagrees with Dasen, François Coux, on this point. Profile positions should be marginal. However, they concern around 20% of teachers in the department according to Snuipp Fsu.
A managerial desire
“We can see a managerial desire asserting itself and control over teachers”, says M Vieceli. “There are more top-down things,” good practices “that deny the pedagogical freedom of teachers. More managerial pressure like these interviews. In the end we see teachers with good record of service taking reserved opinions because they could not answer a question in an interview “.
“An experienced teacher, and who knows the children, siblings, families, with whom he (she) knows how to find the words, the ways of speaking and of de-dramatizing situations, who is at outposts to solve a hell of a lot of conflicting and extremely complicated situations, the thing, therefore, is that this teacher risks being ejected, no more and no less, “Clémentine tells us. “Teaching in these rather difficult conditions is only possible within close-knit teams, where understanding and consultation reign supreme, teams which very often have been firmly established for quite a few years; in contexts where stability is a sine qua none condition. These teachers are in fact one of the very last ramparts that still allow a semblance of social micro-peace to be maintained in these complicated areas. is to break it all … “
Francois Jarraud
Contacted the Dasen de Gironde did not answer our questions.
(1) this is not the real first name
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