Vocation Costs Nothing: entrevista sobre a saída de professores (B2)
Interviewer: Recruitment campaigns keep describing teaching as a vocation. Does that help? Marta Alves: It helps the campaign. Vocation is a lovely word that costs nothing. The teachers leaving my school are not short of vocation; they are short of time, support and money, roughly in that order. Interviewer: So salary is the main issue? Alves: It is the easiest to measure, which is not the same thing. When I ask colleagues why they resigned, they mention the forty unanswered emails, the meetings that decide nothing, the sense of being blamed for outcomes they do not control. Pay them more and some will stay. Give them a timetable that includes thinking, and far more will. Interviewer: What would you change first? Alves: I would delete half the paperwork and dare anybody to notice.
Fonte: English for ALL (texto original).
Na entrevista, Marta Alves sustenta que a saída de professores de sua escola se explica sobretudo por
- A) uma ausência de vocação entre os profissionais que ingressam hoje na carreira.
- B) condições de trabalho, como excesso de burocracia e falta de tempo, mais do que apenas pelo salário.
- C) o fracasso das campanhas de recrutamento em atrair candidatos mais jovens.
- D) os maus resultados dos alunos, pelos quais os professores se sentem responsáveis.
- E) a recusa da direção em promover reuniões periódicas com o corpo docente.