This final month, the Division for Schooling, the instructing unions and OFSTED united. Sure, you heard me proper. The subject that noticed this distinctive collaboration: instructor workload.
The recruitment and retention difficulty confronted by faculties is assembly a demographic increase. Add that to stagnant college budgets and a deeply embedded accountability tradition that sees compliance strangling belief and you’re left with a poisonous recipe sees lecturers working to extra.
There are points which might be extra important to cope with than instructor workload. I’ve collated a few of my blogs on the subject, but additionally a few of the greatest wider studying on the topic.
My blogs on instructor workload
Trainer Workload: What can faculties do? This 2016 challenges a few of our realized helplessness in faculties. There may be each alternative for college leaders to make adjustments.
The Mountain of Trainer Workload. This submit, from 2016, seems to be on the points that drive instructor workload, from clumsy compliance, OFSTED and accountability, and shrinking college budgets.
The Workload Problem: An Unwinnable Trial. This 2015 is vital of the ‘Workload Problem’ – as a substitute, difficult us to cope with the huge bulk of the problems ourselves.
The Penalty Paradox. This 2016 weblog tackles the essential psychological drivers that sees lecturers and college leaders habitually keep on with unhealthy work habits.
Wider studying on workload
The TES have produced a helpful article entitled ‘Trainer Workload Problem: Your at-a-glance information to the ultimate suggestions‘, that does what it says very helpfully.
There may be loads of helpful wider-reading on the problem, given it’s a perennial difficulty. In Colleges Week, Russell Pastime & Toby Salt focus on ’10 methods to make workload much less of a problem’.
The Schooling Coverage Institute have produced ‘Trainer workload {and professional} growth in England’s secondary faculties: insights from TALIS‘ that surveys the eye-watering workload calls for on English lecturers.
Do share the DfE, union and OFSTED steering on this glorious poster (on-line HERE):
There have been come glorious bloggers voicing the problem with some sensible approaches too.
Bloggers on workload
Shaun Allison has shared Durrington college’s strategy to ‘Workload Issues‘.
John Tomsett (full disclosure – he’s my boss!) has written what he is aware of: ‘This a lot I learn about…The Workload Debate‘.
Joe Kirby has shared how Michaela Faculty have tackled the workload difficulty to guard their lecturers: ‘Hornets and Butterflies: Methods to Scale back Workload’.
Debra Kidd has written a terrific weblog filled with sensible methods for college leaders: ‘10 Methods SLT can Scale back Trainer Workload‘.
Sarah Barker has produced a strong particular person account of managing workload: ‘Managing the Workload‘.