Nurturing, supporting and valuing teachers is vital to making teaching an attractive and rewarding career choice.
Reducing teachers’ workload would reduce the numbers of teachers quitting the profession.
There is a clear need to improve the working conditions of teachers, with a focus on making the teaching career more manageable and sustainable.
When faced with impossible workloads, endless accountability, a testing culture run riot, and flat or underfunded pay deals year after year, it is all too common for good teachers to leave the profession.
We can start cutting down the amount of unnecessary and bureaucratic workload teachers face.