Quality, not quantity: how teacher workload has been reduced by focusing on quality

Posted by: Chris Smith, Posted on: 26 February 2018 - Categories: Reducing teacher workload

Last year, at Prince Henry’s Grammar School in Otley, West Yorkshire, the findings of the Marking, Planning and Data Workload Review groups were presented to colleagues in a whole-staff meeting.  Everyone from classroom teachers to SLT was asked to think …

Marking: Postmortem or Diagnosis?

Posted by: Janine Ashman, Posted on: 1 February 2018 - Categories: Reducing teacher workload

Our staff survey in January 2016 showed us that workload was an issue at our school. Marking was one of the tasks our teachers were spending a large amount of time on, often over 20 hours a week - but …