Best Practice

Four ideas to tackle workload in your school

Teacher workloads have always been heavy but the pandemic has added to the strain. Former deputy head Graham Cooper suggests some practical approaches to cut down on time-consuming tasks and give teachers more time


If I asked you why you went into teaching, you would almost certainly tell me it was to make a difference to the children in your classroom. It would not be because you wanted to spend your evenings writing lengthy comments in multiple exercise books, or your weekends trawling the web for an engaging activity about the Roman invasions.

Naturally, these tasks come with the territory, but all too often they take longer than necessary and can spill over into your free time. Pressures from tasks such as lesson-planning, marking and communication can add to the workload, hinder staff wellbeing and raise the inevitable question: “Is this really what I went into teaching to do?”

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