are supply teacher and cover supervisor complementary or conflicting roles?
TES Connect forums have been flooded with concerns raised by supply teachers who claim to have been adversely affected by schools’ use of cover supervisors. The role was created to provide short-term supervisory cover for absent teachers, in response to the workload agreement of 2003. Cover supervisors were introduced in a bid to reduce the amount of time teachers in schools spend covering classes for absent teachers. There is specific guidance on the role: • Cover supervisors are not allowed to teach and should only supervise the class by handing out and collecting pre-set work • They should be suitably experienced but do not need to be qualified teachers • They should only cover for a short term period, usually no longer than three days where a class is normally taught by one teacher. • Headteachers need to assess whether the use of cover supervisors will affect student learning, how long they should be deployed, and monitor the amount of time that individual subjects have needed cov
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