Remodelling the School Workforce

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Remodelling the School Workforce
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There are a number of significant pressures that
are driving change
Pupil assessment
Government initiatives
Tackling workload
Raising standards
Technological changes
Social changes

• Responding to curriculum changes
• Increased need to cater for individual learning
  styles
• Effective use of ICT

• Reducing hours worked
• Improving work/life balance
• Freeing teachers to teach
• Developing the role of
• support staff

School
Budget constraints
Employment legislation
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DO WE NEED CHANGE?
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DO WE NEED CHANGE?
Teacher hours in term-time are on average some 52
hours per week, and in some cases much higher.
Around a third of their time is spent teaching. A
further quarter is spent in activities that
directly support this teaching- planning,
preparation and assessment (PPA). But a quarter
(amounting to some 13 hours per week) is taken up
with general administrative duties and contact
with pupils that is more about supervision than
delivering the curriculum. Pricewaterhouse
Coopers
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Primary School findings
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Teaching
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PPA/CPD
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Non-teaching contact
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Admin/Other
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Management
Pricewaterhouse Coopers
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A tired teacher is not an effective teacher. Nor
is that teacher allowed to focus on what is most
important- teaching. Teachers on average are
expected to spend some 20 per cent of their time
on non-teaching tasks that other adults could do
just as well instead. That needs to change. 
Pricewaterhouse Coopers
DO WE NEED CHANGE?
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DO WE NEED CHANGE?

• Teachers cite workload as their major reason for
  leaving the profession
• Over 30 of a teachers working week is spent on
  non-teaching activities
• Teachers generally have a poor work/life balance.
• 45 of teachers are due to retire within the next
  15 years.
• 30 of teachers leave teaching in their first
  five years.

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GOVERNOR TRAINING
Raising Standards and Tackling Workload a
National Agreement TIME FOR STANDARDS January
15th, 2003
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TIME FOR STANDARDS
Working together with the Government the
education partners must seize the chance to
secure a win-win outcome on pupil standards and
teacher workload. This generation has a unique
opportunity to get this right. We shall not get a
second chance. Time for Standards, 2002
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SIGNATORIES TO THE AGREEMENT
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THE NATIONAL AGREEMENT- objectives

• Focus teachers time and energies on teaching and
  learning
• Re-focus time-consuming, non-teaching activities
• Facilitate the use of new technologies to improve
  efficiency and effectiveness
• Assist headteachers and school change teams
  (SCTs) to optimize the use of resources to meet
  contractual changes
• Learn and share innovative and effective
  practices within and between schools
• Enable schools to deliver solutions to workload
  issues appropriate to their individual context
  and circumstances
• Encourage school leaders to take control of and
  lead the change agenda appropriate to its
  situation, taking account of appropriate
  Government initiatives
• Quicken the pace of the implementation of the
  National Agreement to raise standards and tackle
  workload

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GOVERNOR TRAINING
Sprint
Marathon
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GOVERNOR TRAINING
Statutory contractual obligations of the National
Agreement.
Sprint
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1. Progressive reductions in teachers' overall
hours2. Changes to teachers' contracts 3. A
concerted attack on unnecessary paperwork
and bureaucracy
4. Reform of support staff roles to help
teachers and support pupils 5. The recruitment
of new managers, including business and
personnel managers 6. Additional resources and
national "change management"
programmes 7. Monitoring of progress on
delivery
SEVEN POINT PLAN
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• Changes to teachers contracts
• Promote reductions in overall excessive hours
• Establish monitoring group
• Routine delegation of administrative
  and clerical tasks
• Introduce new work/life balance clauses
• Introduce management and leadership time
• Undertake review of school closure days

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Introduce new limits on covering for absent
teachers (initially 38 hours/year)with the
objective of reaching the point where teachers at
a school rarely cover at all.
Phase two 2004
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Phase three- 2005

• Introduce guaranteed professional time for
  planning, preparation and assessment within
  school sessions.

Daily teaching time- 4 hrs 40 min Weekly
teaching time- 23hrs 20min PPA Time entitlement-
2 hrs 20 min
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Phase three- 2005

• 2. Introduce dedicated headship time
• 3. Introduce new invigilation arrangements

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THE NATIONAL AGREEMENT
Raising Standards and Tackling Workload a
National Agreement
TIME FOR STANDARDS
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THE REMODELLING PROCESS

• A clear and systematic process, to deal with
  issues which need developing and to implement
  change, which-
• is owned and administered by the school.
• can be adapted to suit the school and its needs
• includes all stakeholders
• is supported by a range of tools and skills

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THE REMODELLING PROCESS
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I use all the brains I have and all I can borrow.
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THE SCHOOLS CHANGE MANAGEMENT TEAM SUGGESTED
MEMBERS
Headteacher
Site staff
Support staff
Parents
Local organizations
Governors
Pupils
If you involve people in decisions about change,
they are not afraid of it
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SCHOOLS THAT ARE REMODELLING EFFECTIVELY MAY
DISPLAY A NUMBER OF CHARACTERISICS

• Teaching and learning is the main focus
• There is a change process involving many levels
  of the workforce
• Many levels of the workforce are involved in
  making decisions
• Tasks and activities are undertaken by the
  appropriate people within flexible working
  patterns
• Implementing the National Agreement
• Making change is a normal part of school life
• Morale amongst the whole workforce is high
• The school shares experiences and learning with
  other schools
• The work/life balance is acceptable to the whole
  workforce
• All workforce and stakeholders are aware of the
  direction of the school.

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The Agreement- one year on.
I am committed to raising standards- the
Agreement will do that because teachers will be
working more effectively. It is a challenging but
also exciting time for teachers- one where the
professional needs of teachers are fully
recognised and better supported so they can make
Wales the Learning Country.
Jane Davidson January 2004
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BUDGET
2003/04 244,000 (allocated to schools as a
grant for additional administration support)
2004/05 Wales- 33,000,000 Carmarthenshire-
1,938,000 (Schools to use the funds to deal
with Tackling Workload issues)
2005/06 58,000,000 Planning, Preparation and
Assessment time
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Gareth Morgans CONSULTANT HEADTEACHER PARC
MYRDDIN, CARMARTHEN 01267 228124 GEDMorgans_at_carmar
thenshire.gov.uk