Teachers are spending too much time on red tape and paper pushing.
“While lesson planning,marking and reporting are core parts of the job,we can make these processes smarter,more intuitive and high-value rather than cumbersome,repetitive and wasteful,” she said.
“We know that quality teachers have the biggest impact on student outcomes – by streamlining and simplifying the work done outside of the classroom we can enhance the experience and outcomes within the classroom.”
The plan acknowledges that teachers waste too much time on paperwork,such as manually filling in forms,searching for classroom activities,and collecting data,and time could be better spent on their students.
The plan will focus on cutting red tape from areas such as curriculum resources,reporting to parents,and setting up extracurricular activities.
Proposals include streamlining communications from schools to parents,creating an online bank of classroom activities that are directly linked to the curriculum,and providing a place to store and share resources.
The department would update its expectations for reporting to parents,and establish a working group with parents to look at ways to simplify the process.