Supporting teachers to manage their
workload
Supporting teachers to manage their
workload
For many years, there has been much discussion about teacher workload.
Every job, by its very nature, has 'workload'. However, workload has to be manageable. In
our school, we regularly review teacher workload in order to ensure that it is reasonable.
These are some of the things that we do at Kingsgate to help teachers manage their
workload.
- Teachers do not run any after school clubs so that they have time for assessment
and planning at the end of the school day
- Teachers do not supervise children at morning break times or lunchtimes. This
means they have time for a break, and to prepare for their next lesson
- Planning, preparation and assessment (PPA) time is available to teachers in a 'block'
of time i.e. not half an hour a day
- We have employed a part‐time admin person in KS2 to give teachers sufficient help
with their admin jobs
- No meetings last for more than one hour
- Meetings are punctual, have a specific objective and are fit for purpose.
- The morning briefing with all deadlines and information about events is emailed to
staff at the beginning of every day. This has reminders and deadlines to help staff plan their
time efficiently
- There are no evening parent meetings where exhausted teachers talk to parents long
into a number of evenings. Instead, we hold two parent teacher days where teachers meet
with parents within school hours
- Non-teaching staff make phone calls home about attendance & punctuality
- Senior leaders make phone calls to parents where there is a query of concern from a
parent
- We do not expect teachers to attend any social/community evening events over the
course of the school year
- Extremely detailed curriculum planning, right down to individual lesson planning, is
available for teachers in every subject
- Teachers plan collaboratively which helps reduce workload
- The formats we use to report to parents have been refined so that they are fit for
purpose and not onerous for teachers to complete.
- We reviewed our marking policy and display policy so that they are manageable for
teachers but still useful for children
- We reviewed the way in which we keep Learning Journeys in the Early Years so that
this is not as time-consuming.
