As a leader it can sometimes feel that the only way to solve the problem of huge volumes of work is by asking teachers to work longer hours, but research consistently shows that this can lead to high stress levels, reduced performance and teacher burnout. This in turn increases sickness levels and staff turnover, which then […]
Our research showed that there are ways of reducing teacher workload. One way is for leaders to work with teachers to ask which tasks they think could be cut or changed without having a negative impact. Some of the practical ideas that teachers and leaders in our research came up with are for leaders to: […]
Our research found that it helped to think about there being three main types of workload for teachers. One is the practical work – for example how much marking there is, and this is often the part of workload people talk about. But there is also emotional work. Teaching is all about relationships – with […]
Our research showed that there are ways of reducing teacher workload. Whilst government-led workload expectations can be challenging, we also found that much of the workload is determined by school leaders and so we would encourage all teachers to raise practical workload suggestions with their leaders. Please also share this website with any of your […]
Our research found that it helped to think about there being three main types of workload for teachers. One is the practical work – for example how much marking there is, and this is often the part of workload people talk about. But there is also emotional work. Teaching is all about relationships – with […]
To stay in teaching for a long time it will be important to create some boundaries. Teaching is a job which has no natural boundaries – you could keep working 24/7 and there would still always be work to do. Every day you are working with many different individuals (students and staff) and there are […]