Sentences with phrase «workload challenge for teachers»

Following the launch by the Secretary of State for Education Nicky Morgan of a workload challenge for teachers, the NASUWT has written responding to the challenge and detailing immediate steps she can take to alleviate the burdens on teachers.

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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.

While grammar schools, teacher workload and the pupil funding have dominated education headlines in recent months, the ongoing challenges in teacher recruitment and retention continue to provide difficulties for schools.

While grammar schools, teacher workload and funding have dominated education headlines in recent months, the ongoing challenges in teacher recruitment and retention continue to provide difficulties for schools, writes Richard Sagar from the Recruitment & Employment Confederation

In response to Morgan's plans, Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said: «The workload challenge can be solved by more intelligent accountability, better planning and fewer changes from government — constant short - notice disruption is not conducive to the focus required for good quality teaching.

«This was going to place too heavy a workload on our teachers and would make it very difficult for us to differentiate teaching so that we could provide high end challenges for our more able learners.

She said the areas were highlighted in the Department for Education's Workload Challenge survey, launched earlier this year, which garnered 44,000 responses from teachers.

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.

«We know unnecessary workload is one of the biggest frustrations for teachers and have done more than ever to tackle this by publishing the results of the three workload review groups on marking, planning and data collection - the three biggest concerns raised by teachers through the workload challenge - and accepting all their recommendations.»

This was going to place too heavy a workload on our teachers and would make it very difficult for us to differentiate teaching so that we could provide challenges for our More Able learners.

Teams of Department for Education (DfE) «volunteers» have started logging teacher responses to the Workload Challenge.

Given that observations «can be hugely time consuming, and given the serious workload challenges already facing teachers, there is an urgent need for further evaluation of other kinds of lesson observation to understand where, when and whether they may be effective in developing practice», she said.