Action on Stress

From John Illingworth's survey:

"I often wake in the night and can't get back to sleep because I am thinking about work"

Agree: 59%
No view or disagree (obviously) 41%

1) See if you can get a similar survey in your school or in your area

2) A useful outcome would be if any "initiatives" had to take account of the increased teacher stress as well as the possible benefits to pupils, parents or administration.

3) No new initiatives which increase teacher workload in one area can be brought in without initiatives which reduce teacher workload in another area.

The survey, including the questions, can be downloaded from
here

Post your comments here or email them to wsta_addresses(at)yahoo.co.uk using the @ sign in place of the (at)

There is also a discussion of this topic on the education forum

click here

which reveals, among other things, interest in the survey as far afield as Tasmania.

and on the Times Ed website
click here