philosophical
Well-Known Member
Writing reports is a vastly different task for teachers of different subjects.
A teacher who has the same group (s) three or five times a week sees less students compared to a teacher who has loads of groups but only once a week.
Seeing as we’re talking schools, then the maths suggests if you take 10 minutes per report and see 21 classes of 30 kids per week then that’s 630x10 minutes, 6300 minutes. That’s 105 hours. Or the equivalent of two hours of uncounted work for every single week of the year (plus one hour you have to find somewhere else!).
If the going rate for a qualified teacher is £50 per hour then that’s £5250 of unpaid work for that teacher every year.
Now I have used the largest figures and exceptional examples, but even scaled down you can get an idea of the amount of free work expected of teachers each year because they are obliged to write the modern equivalent of ‘tries hard’ or ‘must do better’ for parents.
All that work could be reduced considerably, but sadly there is always one mug teacher probably with no family who devotes every waking hour to the job, so those in authority expect every other teacher to do the same.
A teacher who has the same group (s) three or five times a week sees less students compared to a teacher who has loads of groups but only once a week.
Seeing as we’re talking schools, then the maths suggests if you take 10 minutes per report and see 21 classes of 30 kids per week then that’s 630x10 minutes, 6300 minutes. That’s 105 hours. Or the equivalent of two hours of uncounted work for every single week of the year (plus one hour you have to find somewhere else!).
If the going rate for a qualified teacher is £50 per hour then that’s £5250 of unpaid work for that teacher every year.
Now I have used the largest figures and exceptional examples, but even scaled down you can get an idea of the amount of free work expected of teachers each year because they are obliged to write the modern equivalent of ‘tries hard’ or ‘must do better’ for parents.
All that work could be reduced considerably, but sadly there is always one mug teacher probably with no family who devotes every waking hour to the job, so those in authority expect every other teacher to do the same.
