If the government does
not reduce teacher workload, the National Education Union will take action, one of its leaders has warned.
Not exact matches
«However, the government must now use the space it has created with today's announcement on assessment to ensure that the outcome delivers real progress in
reducing,
not increasing, the already intense
workload burdens on
teachers and school leaders, whilst also ensuring that schools are judged on the right things in the right way.»
I would argue that pitching learning to the top (ability) / beyond the top
not only raises the bar in terms of aspiration for all learners, but it also
reduces teacher workload in terms of planning time.
Labour wants to tackle what it describes as «rising
workloads», by
reducing the monitoring and bureaucracy
teachers face, although it has
not released further details of its plans.
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.