Shared teacher planning could be an effective response to heavy teacher workloads. Dr Andrew K Shenton, Andy Sherlaw and Gareth Ellis report on research at Whitley Bay High School into possible approaches

Few issues in education provoke as much animated discussion among teachers as workload. Earlier this year, it was the subject of a wide-ranging article in SecEd (A workload audit: Thirty key questions for your school, SecEd, May 2017).

The continuing importance of the matter was evident at the beginning of the new academic year, when it was made known that Ofsted can now comment on the issue of workload as part of judgements on leadership (if they deem workload to be excessive when inspecting a particular school).

Furthermore, figures published in the Teacher Workload Survey 2016 (Department for Education, February 2017) reveal that classroom teachers and middle leaders work, on average, some 54.4 hours each week.

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