Sentences with phrase «addressing teacher workload»
«We welcome the recent statements by the Education Secretary and Ofsted that they are committed to addressing teacher workload.
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Announcing the ballot, Seamus Searson, SSTA general secretary said: «The National Executive is very much aware of the efforts of the Deputy First Minister to address teacher workload and promote teacher professional judgement but teacher workload needs to be reduced in the current session.
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«Workload and pay are racial justice issues and the Government needs to take action to address the concerns of BME teachers.
«The crisis will not end until the government takes responsibility for and takes action to address the devastating impact of its relentless attacks on teachers» pay, workload and working conditions.»
Representatives at the Annual Conference of the NASUWT have condemned the failure of ministers and employers to address the problem of excessive teacher workload.
Participants took part in a real - time electronic poll which explored their views on a series of issues relating to their profession: Among the results were: over three quarters of BME teachers considered themselves to be ambitious, yet stated they are being held back by racial discrimination, and the attitude of senior colleagues; nearly two - thirds (62 %) of BME teachers felt their school or college was not seriously committed to addressing their professional development needs and aspirations; 63 % of BME teachers said their employers were not committed to ensuring their mental and physical wellbeing at work, with workload cited as the single most negative factor impacting on their wellbeing; the vast majority of BME teachers felt the Government does not respect and value teachers and does not understand the day to day realities of teaching (99 %); three quarters of BME teachers said they were not confident that their headteacher will make professional and fair decisions regarding their future pay.
Central to this is our work to empower teachers to make more decisions about how their schools are run; ensure schools are funded more fairly; address workload concerns and de-clutter guidance so teachers have more time in the classroom to teach.
Challenges: Teacher training / PD and classroom resources will need to be provided to enable effective and efficient implementation; Funding for relief teachers whilst teachers administer the test; Not addressing the flaws in the UK Phonics Screening Check / inaccurately tests students; Not providing funding / resources to support students identified through the check as at risk; Additional workload for teachers including, impact on time to administer tests; Duplication of existing tests and / or additional testing burden; Stress or anxiety for students and parents; Some commented writing was a key element that needs to be in the test.
The NUT is calling for an increase in funding to schools and education, and to resume negotiations on teacher contracts to allow workload to be addressed.
«So that's why I'm delighted to announce today that we'll be setting up new working groups to address the three biggest concerns that teachers raised in the workload challenge - marking, planning and resources, and data management.
We welcome the measures already taken to address the supply crisis, particularly: the removal of caps on most recruitment to ITT programmes; the relaxation of skills test requirements; efforts to reduce teacher workload; the continued payment of ITT bursaries; and the introduction of some retention incentives.
Our teachers are the ones who can help us achieve this, but in order for that to happen we need to address the shortfall in access to technologies that are designed solely to reduce the burden of workloads for our teachers.
As there have been no immediate actions taken to address the stress, workload and recruitment crisis that our teachers face, many have resorted to working part - time, only working 4 out of 5 days a week, using the 5th day to catch up on lesson planning and marking, in turn docking their pay by thousands in the name of providing high quality teaching so their students won't suffer.
Until they are prepared to address the real fundamental issues including teacher pay and workload these schemes are unlikely to have the desired impact.»
«Despite the DfE's own workload survey, showing the incredible strain many teachers are under, there is nothing of substance being done to address this issue.
We trust the professionalism of our head teachers to monitor their staff's workload and address any issues.»
Ms Morgan said: «I'm delighted to announce today that we'll be setting up new working groups to address the 3 biggest concerns that teachers raised in the workload challenge — marking, planning and resources, and data management.
Last Friday, the Secretary of State for Education, Damian Hinds, addressed the NAHT conference where, amongst other things, he promised to help reduce teacher workload.
Speaking at a recent Westminster Education Forum seminar, Darren Northcott, a representative of the NASUWT union, warned the shortage of teachers willing to take on exam marking will continue to worsen unless the teacher «workload crisis» is addressed.
The government needs to urgently address workload and teacher pay.
They said: «The failure of the response to the Workload Challenge to robustly address these problems is certainly a missed opportunity that will disappoint teachers and school leaders and will hugely undermine the other work that is planned.»
The government needs to create a «coherent plan» by April, they recommend, plus set out what represents an «acceptable» workload, say more about the teacher vacancy service, take a more «strategic» role on teacher housing, address regional differences in teacher quality, explain how CPD will improve, and give more detail on the opportunity areas.