Essential Guides for Early Career Teachers: Workload

An accessible, carefully researched, quick-read on managing workload and productivity for all early career teachers. The Essential Guides for Early Career Teachers provide accessible, carefully researched, quick-reads for early career teachers, covering the key topics they will encounter during their training year and first two years of teaching. They complement and are fully in line with the new Early Career Framework and are intended to assist ongoing professional development by bringing together current information and thinking on each area in one convenient place. This title on workload recognises the reality of work-related stress, but challenges the vocabulary of overload and embraces a positive lens through which you can view your own performance in order to work more enjoyably and effectively. Using research, observations and interviews, the book moves away from the raft of advice aimed at senior management level and speaks directly to the early career teacher. It promotes strategies for you to achieve greater agency within the workplace, develops the notion of a professionally acceptable workload and provides advice on maintaining high standards while creating a healthy work-life balance. Ultimately it allows you to model your own approach to teaching in a manner that is enjoyable, productive and reflexive. Linked to the Early Career Framework, this book provides practical time management and productivity strategies to help new teachers tackle the issue of workload. Workload is a key issue for most beginning teachers. Trying to cope with all the demands of a new job with an increasing burden of administration, reporting and assessment tasks, can be daunting at best and may even lead to significant mental health issues. But there is a way through it all! This book acknowledges the challenges that exist and suggests evidence-informed ideas that can be used both in and outside the classroom to create an acceptable workload. It takes a positive and proactive stance, encouraging early career teachers to implement strategies that will enable them to work more effectively and ultimately bring a high level of enjoyment and job satisfaction.