Article,
Teachers' workload diary survey 2010
(November 2010)
Abstract
Teachers' workload is a common reason for teachers leaving the profession. Several measures have been put in place to ensure that teachers' time and energies are focused on the key tasks that require their particular professional skills, expertise and judgement, and thus to reduce the overall workload by redistributing or eliminating other tasks. The National Agreement on raising standards and tackling workload was signed by the then government, employers and school workforce unions in January 2003. The 2010 Teachers' Workload Diary Survey provides independently collected data on hours and working patterns in maintained schools in England and Wales. This is the eleventh survey; previous surveys were carried out in 1994, 1996, 2000 and then annually from 2003. The 2010 survey was commissioned directly by the DfE. Of the 662 maintained schools randomly selected for the 2010 Teachers' Workload Diary Survey, 164 schools (25%) cooperated, meaning that at least one teacher completed a diary survey. Across these 164 schools, 2179 teachers were sampled, and of these, 1244 completed a usable diary survey (57%).
