It comes as new research has revealed a quarter of teachers in England work more than 60 hours a week with many claiming to spend as much time on management, administration, marking and lesson planning as they do with pupils.
The University College London (UCL) study looked at data from more than 40,000 primary and secondary teachers, between 1992 and 2017.
Hannah Paige, Head of Maths at College of Richard Collyer told Premier excessive paperwork doesn’t aid a child’s learning and forces many teachers to take their work home with them.
“A lot of us are completely committed to our job and are prepared to do whatever it takes to get the students through. But there’s an awful lot of admin that could be cut down, and paperwork that just really isn’t needed, and doesn’t help the students in the long run. It’s really to satisfy the schools and their systems.
“The classroom is less than half of what I actually do in a week, possibly closer to a third. It’s finding the time to do everything else outside of the important bit, which is being there with the students and helping them progress and develop, we all fret and we don’t switch off and we spend our Saturdays planning lessons because that’s the time we’ve got to do it. It’s not possible to do it in the working day with all the other admin and bureaucracy.”
The study found that around 40 per cent of teachers in England…
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