Students not getting on with set work, not having the right equipment, and using mobile phones in lessons are among the most frequent disruptions facing secondary school teachers.
Low-level disruption has been identified as a key problem by Ofsted, which says that addressing a lack of consistency in “setting and insisting on” high standards of behaviour is key to tackling the issue.
A report from the inspectorate claims that more than a quarter of teachers are wasting five minutes or more every lesson dealing with this type of behaviour.
It labels its findings as “deeply worrying” and says that “school leaders are failing to identify or tackle low-level disruptive behaviour at an early stage”.
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