Trendy job titles

[Prudie]

Today I saw the sign outside a local school give the name of the 'Lead Learner'. What on earth was wrong with headteacher? Why is it the trend to come up with new names for job roles? Any others you know of?

[4getmenot]

website performer lol

[sara3]

lunchtime supervisor, which was dinner lady in my day ;o)

[237SJ]

In my company, we have Change and Transformation Managers. What the heck do they do for God`s sake (apart from earning about £35,000 per year)?

[Prudie]

lol 237, do you work at the same place as me?

Another one, aren't the dustmen environmental engineers?

[saxy_jag]

I once referred to our building caretaker as a premises officer. He said, "I take care of the building. I'm a caretaker!".

[mike11111]

Couldn't agree more, Prudie. What is particularly shocking is that the word 'learner' is the opposite of 'teacher'. Whilst we're on the subject,whatever was wrong with 'headmaster' or 'headmistress' in the first place?

[4getmenot]

ah but mike so many teenagers nowadys say 'he learnt me it rather than he taught me it' so maybe they had to go by that lol

[Prudie]

Yes Mike i thought that, learner to me is someone who learns. There must be a transitive (or is it intransitive) form of the verb learn which means to 'make someone learn' ???

[237SJ]

Prudie, do you work for an airline by any chance? (in answer to your question)

[Buenchico]

'Lead learner' doesn't even seem to be accurate. While, of course, teachers should learn as well as teach, it seems daft to refer to any member of staff as any type of 'learner', when that's what the pupils are.

Oh, hang on a minute. I've just used the word 'pupils'. In the school I taught in, we didn't have 'pupils'; we only had 'students'. (The boss was very insistent about that!).

Damn! Another mistake! I should have remembered that where I taught wasn't a 'school' at all. The head teacher (if I can still call him that!) had the word 'school' removed from the signs outside the building and from all letterheads, etc. That's because we weren't a 'school'; we were a 'community' ;-)

Chris

[Buenchico]

Prudie:
You're not in Islington by any chance, are you?
http://www.thisislond...ll-me-lead-learner.do

[scotman]

Chris

Are you blaming your schooling for your current situation? :-())

[Prudie]

Chris no I'm not, in the sticks really but it must be catching. What a load of garbage.

237 not an airline (although that is one of my dream jobs!) but 'government service'. We have Change and Transformation managers on higher salary than that too!

[mike11111]

'Learn' means to acquire information, never to impart it (except in French where the word to learn is the same as to teach). Although such solecisms may be found in certain workplaces, they are unforgivable in an educational environment. | spent years as a teacher trying to get children to differentiate between the words 'borrow' and 'lend'. When a boy eventually came to me and said, "Sir, can you borrow me a pencil?" I decided to call it a day.

[buildersmate]

Surely a 'lead learner' is an alternative name for a 'dog choke collar'.

[NoMercy]

Learner sounds like an apprentice. The world has gone barking mad.

[rowanwitch]

Hey I used to be "Inpatient Pathway Coordinator (Oncology and Haematology ) " thats bed manager /waiting list manager

[factor-fiction]

In some schools the Lead Learner is a selected pupil, under a system which has been piloted with some success. I have no issue with that.
But it's true that some schools have retitled the head teacher to Lead Learner. I read this justification in a learned journal:

"Educators are gradually redefining the role of the head from instructional leader with a focus on teaching to leader of a professional community with a focus on learning."

What do you make of that!

[ChuckFickens]

Guess it keeps somebody in a job thinking all these crap PC job titles and descriptions up.

[buildersmate]

Fortunately not for too much longer, Chuck. George Osborne will ensure they get sniffed out (or did I means snuffed out).