Improving teachers' health and wellbeing could raise pupil attainment "more readily" than tackling complex factors such as social class, research has suggested.
Launched last month, a preliminary paper detailing research commissioned by the Teacher Support Network (TSN) and carried out by Lancaster University’s Work Foundation is calling for a full-scale investigation into the causal links between healthy teachers and student outcomes.
Sponsorship is being sought for the work, which will also seek to establish practical methods that schools can implement to promote teachers’ health. The government has also been urged to take note of the study’s early findings and to “focus on policies which address the stresses that teachers already face”.
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