Ofsted’s chief inspector has said teachers must ensure they are a “teacher not a campaigner” in an increasingly “atomised” world for pupils.
Speaking at the Festival of Education at Wellington College in Berkshire, Amanda Spielman said pupils were growing up in an online world “that both reflects and fuels the atomisation and polarisation of society”.
She added that teachers therefore needed to be “expert guides through disputed territory, while maintaining their own impartiality”.
She said schools’ impartiality guidance was not only about keeping an individual teacher’s politics outside the classroom but also about “providing balance”.
