Sentences with phrase «teacher workload driven»

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The NUT conference will today (Saturday) debate the implications of an excessive workload and how it is driving many teachers from the profession.

That's why the education secretary recently announced a strategy to drive recruitment and boost retention of teachers, working with the unions and professional bodies, and pledged to strip away workload that doesn't add value in the classroom.»

Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said: «We can not have high quality education if teachers are being driven into the ground through excessive workload and the unreasonable expectations of an out - of - control accountability system in which Ofsted plays a leading role.

Keates added: «A coherent Government — wide strategy is needed which secures effective downward pressure to the workload and working hours which are driving teachers and headteachers out of the profession.»

«Class sizes are rising, but teachers and support staff are being driven out of the profession by attacks on their pay and intolerable workloads.

Jane Peckham, national official for the NASUWT in Scotland, said: «Talented teachers are being driven out of the profession because of the burden of excessive workload.

«Workload is driving the teacher recruitment and retention crisis.

«We need to see serious change to the data - driven madness plaguing education policy and increasing teachers» workload way beyond manageable levels.

«In a recent survey, initial findings have found that National Education Union teacher members feel that excessive workload is blighting their lives and driving them from the profession.

They also don't capture the ever - increasing workload and a growing gap between private and public wages in a context of high rents and mortgages, which are driving many excellent teachers out of what can be a deeply rewarding profession.»

15 April 2017 A recent survey of more than 3,000 young teachers, conducted by the NUT Young Teachers Working Party, has found that almost half were considering leaving the profession as a result of an excessive workload driven by increasingly irrelevant accountability mteachers, conducted by the NUT Young Teachers Working Party, has found that almost half were considering leaving the profession as a result of an excessive workload driven by increasingly irrelevant accountability mTeachers Working Party, has found that almost half were considering leaving the profession as a result of an excessive workload driven by increasingly irrelevant accountability measures.

The teacher recruitment and retention crisis driven by excessive workload is resulting in head teachers struggling to fill posts and having to make do with teachers taking subjects that are not their speciality.

The Government needs to recognise that funding cuts are also now driving up workload - with class sizes increasing in two - thirds of secondary schools and teachers facing cut backs in preparation time.

A ludicrous workload, the introduction of performance - related pay that simply does not work in schools alongside a punitive accountability system is driving teachers out of the profession.

An unacceptable workload driven by accountability measures that treat all teachers as incompetent, in addition to low graduate pay, are not only driving many out of the profession but are also deterring new graduates from entering teaching.

We can not have high quality education if teachers are being driven into the ground through excessive workload and the unreasonable expectations of an out - of - control accountability system in which Ofsted plays a leading role.

Teacher workload is unbearably high, it is driving the teacher recruitment crisis and leading to unnecessary stress and in many cases an unacceptable work - life bTeacher workload is unbearably high, it is driving the teacher recruitment crisis and leading to unnecessary stress and in many cases an unacceptable work - life bteacher recruitment crisis and leading to unnecessary stress and in many cases an unacceptable work - life balance.

Increasing and sustaining the recruitment of examiners and driving down «excessive and unnecessary» teacher workload are «two sides of the same coin», he claimed.

Workload is one of the major causes of driving some 10 % of teachers in the UK to leave the profession each year.

Increases in class size mean less individual attention for children, but they also increase workload for teachers and support staff — driving more people away from teaching and intensifying the recruitment and retention crisis that has developed.

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.

Teachers tell us time and again the main reason why so many leave the profession is an unacceptably high workload driven by an excessive and often pointless accountability and assessment regime,» she said.

According to the union, excessive workloads and attacks on salaries are responsible for driving teachers away from the profession.

The Committee found that teacher workload was driving teachers from the classroom.

«The PAC is correct in its analysis that excessive workload and inadequate pay is failing to attract, and driving teachers from, the profession at a time when school rolls will rise by over half a million extra pupils.

Class sizes are increasing, but teachers and support staff are being driven out by attacks on their pay and intolerable workloads.