[PDF] Top 20 Reducing teacher workload : the WOWS research project

... Although we felt comfortable with our new policies and procedures, this had added further confidence that what we are doing is not only right for the children but right for the staff and helps to address the work/life ... See full document

... to teacher workload. (p.26) The research group agreed, in the light of this, that there was no need for staff to assess against every national curriculum ... See full document

... Staff at Southwark TSA report that one of the greatest challenges in the project was for teachers to find time in the day to conference with pupils. This was particularly difficult for those teachers without any ... See full document

... This provided greater scope to explore staff perceptions of data demands in their roles. The decision to record the interviews and transcribe them was integral to the collaborative thematic analytical process – however ... See full document

... a teacher devises one lesson themselves and receives several from their colleagues, a key finding of the Whitley Bay High study was that the early stages of the planning initiatives were time ... See full document

... customary approaches. Handover sessions with the previous teacher took place in all schools. Meetings with Heads and Inclusion Managers to discuss a child who had not made progress for a long time took place also ... See full document

... the project: setting out agreed actions and next steps; facilitating communications within and between schools; and chasing up on activity and deadlines pupil voice was also sourced through focus groups, alongside ... See full document

... 2.2. Research methods 2.2.1. Teacher baseline and follow-up surveys Two teacher surveys were conducted to baseline and track participating teachers’ experience in the Year Group Collaborative ... See full document

... negative behaviors (Project L.I.F.T strategic plan, 2012). These influences are some of the main contributors to the underachievement of African-American students. Matthews et al. (2010) stated that the role of ... See full document

... marking workload through using a combination of verbal feedback, coloured pens and stamps (as marking symbols), and pupil-self- and peer- ...of project teacher surveys, teacher research ... See full document

... pressure, workload and work conditions of teachers, ‘the role of a teacher being physically and mentally exhausting ’; in addition the current and future direction of education policy and how that impact on ... See full document

... All the teachers new to conference marking reported that 1:1 marking conferences were most effective and resulted in good progress in children’s work, but finding the time for this was viewed as “incredibly difficult”. ... See full document

... the teacher taking on the lion’s share of this: One of the themes that emerged during this discussion (and others) was that of the professional ability of the teacher to decide on the most appropriate means ... See full document

... Creating Balance Amidst the Chaos Life never seems to slow down; just when a big project gets done, another seems to pop up. Between work, marriage, children, social life, and other obligations there just isn’t ... See full document

... relief teacher: • Initially, staff who have lost their normal scheduled classes shall be allocated an in-lieu class, and full-time staff with an allocated teaching load of less than 1280 minutes per week of ... See full document

... unnecessary workload and will continue to champion the cause in her speeches and other ...additional workload on large numbers of ...unnecessary workload tests to national change which goes wider ... See full document

... 2019 research team also made efforts to minimise response bias, including not using the DfE logo in the survey and sharing a briefing document about the survey with stakeholders, for use in helping to raise ... See full document

... approached. Of these schools, 449 agreed to take part in the survey and distributed the survey link to all teaching staff, representing a total of 20,704 teachers, middle leaders and senior leaders. After removing ... See full document

... 8 Workforce Census (SWC), which was the most recent available dataset at the time of sampling. Secondary schools are larger cluster units than primary, so the design ensured a large enough number of secondary clusters ... See full document

... Overall, the majority of characteristics (including demographic and school characteristics) for teachers responding to the survey were similar to the average for the overall teaching population. However, composition of ... See full document