In fact, research suggests that principal support can matter more than
even teacher workload when it comes to decisions to stay at or leave a school.
Not exact matches
Teachers are being swamped with work - related emails on weekends, in holidays and even when they are on sick leave, adding to their already excessive workload and causing rising levels of stress, a survey by the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, ha
Teachers are being swamped with work - related emails on weekends, in holidays and
even when they are on sick leave, adding to their already excessive
workload and causing rising levels of stress, a survey by the NASUWT, the largest
teachers» union, ha
teachers» union, has found.
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Teachers»
workloads are already unmanageable without the added pressure of being expected to respond to emails from parents during
evenings and weekends.
Twenty - nine per cent said they are expected to carry out the full range of duties of a
teacher,
even though they are paid at a support staff rate, and 75 per cent said they must work extra hours because their
workload demands it.
We've since created additional apps which complement one another to help schools save
even more time, so
teachers can reduce their
workload and focus on providing their students with the highest quality lessons and work on maintaining a healthy work life balance.
In a major blow to the Department for Education's
workload agenda, the report also reveals that half of school leaders have not engaged with the government's flagship «
workload challenge» programme at all, and that only # 91,000 has been spent on programmes to support
workload or pupil behaviour —
even though these were flagged as key issues to keep
teachers in the profession.
Even though
workload is «the main reason why
teachers leave the profession», the government has not set out what impact it hopes to achieve from its interventions, the committee found.
«We are not talking about having to stay a little bit later of an
evening, but of
workloads that keep
teachers working into the night and at weekends.»
Respondents to the government's
workload challenge survey cited accountability as the major driver of unnecessary
workload which has led to
teachers and leaders working, on average, a 58 - hour week, and school leaders
even longer.
Time spent focusing on these speculative numbers and letters is arguably time which could be spent on something more meaningful — or
even on not working at all given the current drive to reduce
workload, and the number of hours which
teachers report working each week.
Inadequate funding for schools will create a pressure keg of rising class sizes, creating
even more unsustainable
workload pressures for
teachers and school leaders.