Sixty per cent of teachers reported spending more than five hours a week on parent issues, as time needed to deal with student wellbeing also skyrocketed, a survey has found.
More than a third of Australian teachers say they intend to leave the profession before retirement, citing a punishing workload as the main reason for wanting out.
But most of those who say they intend to leave the profession before retiring also intend to remain in teaching for at least the next five years, in a hopeful sign there is “time to retain them”. The survey also unearthed an encouraging decline in the proportion of teachers teaching out-of-field – meaning they are not properly qualified – in most subjects.
Misson said workload was by far the biggest issue for teachers contemplating leaving. Almost 90 per cent cited it as their main motivation, with issues of reward and recognition second, followed by classroom factors such as student behaviour. The review will focus on students from low socioeconomic backgrounds; from regional and remote areas; First Nations students; students with disability; and students from non-English-speaking backgrounds.
“Fifteen years ago, the gap in the reading skills of eight-year-olds from poor and wealthy backgrounds was a bit over a year. Now it is over two, and with every year that gap grows bigger.”It will be chaired by Dr Lisa O’Brien, the current chair of the Australian Education Research Organisation and former chief executive of the Smith Family.
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