chalkface

Such questions have been raised in the world of education, where those at the chalkface are fed-up with being assessed and put into league tables.

Does it not make sense to remove such teachers from the chalkface - for retraining or reorientation to another career?

To work "at the chalkface" means to work in education, specifically in a school.

In my experience, there appears to be a disconnection between work load and the chalkface the higher up the leadership ladder you climb.

In 1991, the BBC broadcast a television series called Chalkface, written by John Godber.

Campbell's early credits include working as a researcher in the early 1980s on the Granada Television television magazine Chalkface.

Moon, B, Literary terms: a Practical Glossary, 2nd edn, Chalkface Press, Cottesloe, 2001.

The role of the head teacher in primary schools has changed greatly over the past twenty years removing them, certainly in larger schools, from the chalkface and from their colleagues.

What is happening is that the national curriculum's worthy aspirations to educate pupils about ICT are transmuted at the chalkface into teaching kids to use Microsoft software.

Matthew G.Cliff - "Chalkface", the name Little Pete gives to short-lived neighborhood villain Roger SanGreko.

Funny that politicians (mainly, but not exclusively, Tory ones) have been banging on about 'getting rid of bad teachers' since I was at the chalkface - and that's nearly thirty years ago.

He has been Editor of Farrago, MUM, National U, Chalkface and the Australian Rationalist, and written many articles and books.

Throughout his academic career he would always make time to teach a class of children for one or two days a week so that he would remain in touch with the profession at the 'chalkface'.

The inescapable conclusions from studying the management practice in large organisations, including the health service, in the past 40 years is that management is best carried out as close as possible to the chalkface.

BBC Programmes Hands on History BBC Archive - Chalkface (1989) To play this programme you need to enable JavaScript.

However, in practice often the micros are not to be found near the chalkface: rather they tend to live on trolleys and inhabit locked cupboards in primary schools, and cluster in specialist departments at secondary and FE levels.