The report DIY Professionalism: Futures for teaching said teachers todayhave more varied roles than in the past - including ensuring childsafety, searching young adults for weapons and regenerating wholecommunities - and feel they have much less control over their work.
As a result, according to the report, teachers are harking back to ashared view of the profession's past which "draws on the idea of agolden age, during which teachers were independent, highly respected andhad clearly limited responsibilities".
But a spokeswoman for the NUT disagreed that teachers were finding itdifficult to accept the current reality.
"It has always been the responsibility of teachers to keep an eye on thesafety of their pupils and it has always been a caring profession.Teachers have always done more than stand in front of a class and justteach," she said.
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