
Coronavirus: leadership and workload
Leadership, Workload and Covid-19
The Independent Teacher Workload Review Groups were established by the DfE to report on, and suggest solutions to, unnecessary burdens associated with marking, planning and data management.
The DfE report on marking - Reducing teacher workload: Marking Policy Review Group report - aims to help schools review their practice with the aim of shrinking the importance marking has gained and stopping unnecessary and burdensome practice.
What does the DfE report identify as the main problems with the way marking is often carried out in schools?
That its ‘excessive nature, depth and frequency’ is ‘burdensome’.
As National Education Union members, get together and consider these challenges:
Can you stop written marking – for a week; for a phase; for a subject; forever (some schools have)? If so, use the time to engage in the following challenges: