Speaking at the union's annual conference, John Dunford said that ministers would be less inclined to introduce unnecessary new regulations and policies if they had teaching experience.
He said: "Nobody should be allowed to be an education minister without first being a teacher for a month, including break duty on a wet Friday, and being a head for a month, including reading and implementing all Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) documents."
Dunford also warned that the government is in danger of creating a "Tesco model" of schools, by over regulating what schools can and can't do.
He said head teachers are treated like branch managers and teachers like shelf fillers, in what the DCSF term the "delivery chain".
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