A former Perthshire teacher faces being struck off for “boring” lessons which prompted complaints from parents and led to chaos in the classroom.
Gillian Scott is accused of a catalogue of incompetency, including failing to stop pupils drawing sexual pictures on their folders and throwing chairs and other objects around the room.
Miss Scott was reported to the General Teaching Council by colleagues at Breadalbane Academy.
She will be represented by her father at a fitness-to-teach panel next week.
James Scott believes that his daughter is being victimised because of her role in a “shambolic” exams row from 2009, where pupils were left waiting for more than a month for their Higher Prelim marks.
Miss Scott was one of four English teachers who signed a letter to the chief executive of Perth and Kinross Council, raising concerns about the department principal at the time.
Yesterday, the teaching council revealed for the first time the allegations Miss Scott will face at a hearing on Monday.
It is alleged that she failed to maintain the council’s standard for full registration while working at Breadalbane between December 2010 and November 2013.
According to the teaching watchdog, academy head teacher Linda Swan and depute head David Macluskey received complaints from parents about Miss Scott’s teaching.
They said children were not being “pushed, stretched or motivated” in her classes.
The teaching council said that lessons around 2011 were “repetitive and too low level, in that they had to write an essay on what they did in their summer holidays.”
In a lesson watched over by Mr Macluskey, it is reported that “after copying work from the board, several pupils were left waiting for others to finish which meant their individual needs were not met”.
Pupils described lessons in February 2012, as “boring” and “always the same thing” and according to Mr Macluskey, Miss Scott had pupils copy down learning intentions, instead of explaining them.
Miss Scott, who now works overseas, is said to have “set expectations too low” for pupils and on one occasion “told pupils about the characterisation during a clip of Jurassic Park and instructed them to write down the points (she) had made.”
During other classes, pupils were not actively engaged; she failed to use a variety of teaching techniques and her “lack of enthusiasm for teaching and the subject resulted in pupils becoming disinterested”.
In lessons watched by Mr Macluskey in 2011, it is further alleged that pupils had “inappropriate sexual graffiti on their folders” and during one lesson, children were “out of control… pupils were shouting out, throwing objects and throwing chairs”.
In another lesson in May 2011, it is alleged Miss Scott issued a “disproportionate number” of punishment exercises to one child and failed to stop four pupils, put out of class, “racing a chair up and down the corridor”.
The hearing will take place in Edinburgh on Monday.
