But NUT leader Christine Blower said: "Teachers cannot be turned into spies in the classroom". Head teachers' leader Russell Hobby said schools should see the regulations in terms of "safeguarding" and not "surveillance".
For more of Humphrey's ideas for the classroom, head to her blog, Teaching and So Fourth.
He would sit in the back of the classroom, head upright, eyes alert, absorbing every bit of information he could.
No doubt some late converts to the classroom, heads filled with romantic fantasies of starring in their own personal Dead Poets Society, will find out soon enough why almost half of newly qualified teachers drop out and why "giving something back" at the end of a long corporate career isn't necessarily as fun as it sounds.
Instead the building's fire alarm went off, prompting some students to leave their classrooms, heading towards harm's way, footage shows.
In every classroom, the head teacher must have a bachelor's degree — nationwide, most preschool teachers don't — and there must be a teacher for every 10 students.
CHICAGO — Just three weeks after a teacher strike here that kept 350,000 children from their classrooms, the head of the city's public schools system has chosen to step down, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said at a news conference on Friday.
Christine Blower, general secretary of the NUT, said: "Despite measures to reduce teachers' workload, we still have the unacceptable situation of many classroom teachers, heads and deputies working in excess of 50 hours a week.
While the unceasing bomb threats prompted some students to abandon their dorms and classrooms and head home early this semester, university officials vowed to keep the campus open and operating, turning to Twitter and other social media tools to inform students of the threats and when buildings were clear for them to return.
In the wood-carving classroom, the heads of a tiger, leopard, boar, owl, snake, deer, dog, ox, rabbit, dragon and a mythical bird called a garuda all snarl down at onlookers.
I visited a school called Hand in Hand in an Arab village in Israel -- one of seven throughout the country -- where every classroom is headed by two teachers: one Jewish and one Arab.
