So that means there's less time for planning and less time for collaboration.
Alongside this, streamlining administrative work, reducing face-to-face teaching and providing more time for collaboration and planning" would all help early career teachers transition into the school system in a supported manner.Īustralia has one of the highest hours of face-to-face teaching across the globe. "One thing that many schools already do is to offer early career teachers reduced workloads in their first year of teaching.
The solutions to teacher attrition, or burnout, or ways to increase teacher wellbeing include strategies that schools can implement and those that individual teachers can activate. And a 2022 Senate inquiry was established to look into the increasing disruption in Australian classrooms, pointing to the fact that Australia has among the world's most disorderly classrooms, ranking 69 out of 76 jurisdictions worldwide, according to PISA. The federal government's working group of Education Ministers across Australia developed the National Teacher Workforce Action Plan which acknowledged the intensification of work for teachers across Australia and will report on solutions later in 2023. "When teachers don't feel confident to manage the classroom effectively, for example dealing with disruptive student behaviour, it can be extremely stressful."īoth workload and student behaviour management issues are currently the focus of policymakers.
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A high workload base is one barrier to staying, and another is a lack of appropriate professional learning to effectively manage the classroom. Collie's research has identified several reasons that teachers leave the profession. "So when teachers enter the profession, they are learning 100 different things at the same time and that can be quite a shock."Ī/Prof. Not only do teachers teach, assess and plan all the aspects of the students' learning, they are also required to do many tasks beyond that, whether that's a compliance requirement, classroom management to create a supportive classroom, then doing extra things like running an environment club, coaching a sporting team, doing yard duty. "I think part of the reason teachers leave soon after starting in the profession is because of the reality shock," A/Prof. Scientia Associate Professor of Education Psychology in the UNSW School of Education, Rebecca Collie, studies teacher wellbeing and has identified some keys to retaining teachers, and especially those in the early years of their careers. These efforts are in light of high numbers of teachers planning to leave the profession over the next five years, and statistics quoted by the federal government that 20 per cent of graduates leave teaching within three years.
And the NSW Department of Education is in the midst of drive to offer thousands of teachers permanent positions. The NSW Premier Chris Minns nominated attracting teachers to the public school system as one of his goals after 100 days in office. Research by UNSW Sydney's Rebecca Collie into teacher wellbeing offers some solutions. As NSW works hard to attract new teachers, another answer is to keep them in the profession.
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