Why is the teaching workforce in crisis, and what can we do about it?
We know that the process that causes a teacher to leave the profession is something that starts a long time before a teacher actually leaves… (Lindqvist and Nordänger, 2016)
Less than ten years ago, you would struggle to find much academic research to support promoting teacher wellbeing and how it equates to higher pupil outcomes. However, today, this evidence base is now changing.
Dating back to 2003, studies show teachers leave the profession due to workload in education (Struyven and Vanthournout, 2014). Today, even if you don’t believe it, teachers are working fewer hours, but only by a smaller margin, and work is doubled by contracted time!
