Eacher Workloads News Today

Productive work in all other sectors of the economy relies on teachers.

There are clear potential time saving benefits. But how these tools might affect the teaching profession more broadly needs to be considered.

Looser requirements for teacher certification don’t fix teachers’ problems, which are low pay, high workload and lack of respect.

This week, NSW teachers learned they were going to get a “helping hand” preparing lessons from the start of term 4

Paying good teachers more sounds like a great idea. The problem is the research on performance pay shows it’s counterproductive – and inflicting it on a system in crisis is terrible timing.

High-stress schools undermine teachers’ commitment and risk losing even more from the profession at a time of growing staff shortages. But schools can take steps to reduce the causes of stress.

Many teachers are sick of pretending they are “doing OK”. They feel pressured to be unrealistically positive in the face of irrefutable evidence that everything is not great.

The demands of the job mean teachers don’t have enough time to ensure they do the best-quality teaching they can. But our new report has a plan for governments.