Addressing teacher workload

Headnote

Federation is preparing an audit tool to help address teacher workload.

"Meetings - endless staff, stage and KLAs ikey learning areas] meetings - without a clear purpose and where the same issues are discussed endlessly without resolution."

This was a comment from a teacher at the Beginning Teachers Conference on August 23 at Dorrigo. This comment reflected the view of the majority of primary teachers who attended a campaigns course at Federation on August 21 and 22 to consider a process for auditing teacher workload. Secondary and central school teachers agreed that endless meetings were also a major contributor to excessive workload. These meetings included pa rent/teacher/com mu ? ity, cross school and faculty meetings, closely followed by a wide range of committees.

Other key issues identified as creating huge workload demands included:

* programming (particularly where there was no sharing or collaborative approach)

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