UK teachers should be allowed to work from home, education secretary says
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/dec/21/uk-teachers-should-be-allowed-to-work-from-home-education-secretary-says
Posted by Fox_9810
UK teachers should be allowed to work from home, education secretary says
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/dec/21/uk-teachers-should-be-allowed-to-work-from-home-education-secretary-says
Posted by Fox_9810
16 Comments
I swear that they do already, I remember teachers taking home stuff to mark etc, and then losing it lol
How can you teach from home ? Will the students be at home too? Like a zoom call meeting or will they just be watching a screen with the teacher on it? In which case they won’t be watching the screen but just playing on phones lol
Lol how?
We can take marking home and work till 10pm at night sure. But we pretty much have to be in the building 8-4 to supervise kids. Pretty important part of our role.
How much planning time do they think we have? I have three hours out of a possible 30 a week to “plan the other 27 lessons”. So by the time I get home in planning time I’d need to turn back around again.
They already can at my wife’s school. They get something like 2.5 hours of planning and prep time (all teachers in all schools, I think) and she’s allowed to take it from home.
She doesn’t, most of the time, because she already does a lot at home and this PPA time is used to do things in school she can’t do while teaching.
Meanwhile Dubai and Qatar offers free housing and plane tickets paid for teachers.
The industry is too lowly paid to be meaningful so even all the wfh of the world could not stop the brain drain that is actively happening, qualified teachers are leaving the country as we speak.
Or just make it so they do not have to work all hours of the day instead. I was working around 60 hours a week when I was teaching, with most of that being for the benefit of the senior leadership team and the governors. Very little of that work really helped the kids and even less helped me. Sure, being able to do PPA from home would have been nice but cutting bureaucracy is always going to be top of teachers’ demands, not being able to work from home.
Even for my 2 first period PPAs I still have to be in for tutor time. It would only be useful if it was a half/whole day or if I could leave early when I have a free last period… but even then there’s meetings or duties or extra curricular stuff. It’s a great idea but one that doesn’t work in the current situation.
How’s that gonna work? Do the kids sit in their teachers front room?
Teachers already do a huge amount of work at home, it’s just uncompensated.
Fucksake they are forcing office workers back but want to send teachers home. This country is fucked
That makes perfect sense. The children could be educated from the comfort of their bedrooms and never even have to get out of their PJ’s. During exam day the kids could pay university students to take the exams for them. Nobody would have to meet until prom day or when everyone opens their envelopes together to see their exam results. This might result in a lot of pissed off children emailing their uni student’s and asking them why they have failed their exams.
They do, it’s all the stuff they do after hours that you don’t bother to pay them for you twat.
I wish we had mature politicians for goodness sake.
On days when they aren’t needed in the school I’m cool with that.
But….I fear a generation have been scared by the learn from Home stuff in covid
Teachers already do work from home. Unpaid after hours marking essays.
This is another dumb comment from the Labour government.
Set kids up in isolated computer pods that are remotely monitored. Teachers churn out curriculum and mark on an as needed basis. Social interactions happens in extra curricular. Problem solved.