"The NUT will not accept unqualified people having responsibility for whole class teaching as currently proposed by the government, " said general secretary Doug McAvoy in response to the ministerial speech.

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Ofsted has been campaigning for schools to make more use of whole-class teaching, whose neglect it regards as one of the reasons for under-achievement in other subjects.

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Now I have been teaching this for over seven years because I heard these words over 10 years ago in a yoga class that totally woke me up from a deep sleep of ignorance of what really is.

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He argues that excessive use of whole-class teaching might mean pupils spending so long being lectured about mathematics that they never get to solve equations for themselves.

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