“Teachers should stop jumping on the bandwagon!” were the wise words of a feisty retired teacher who had overheard my grumblings about the latest on teacher workload on the train home the other day. But it’s hard not to. Every school leader in the country is talking about it, every educational news outlet is chanting it and every teacher is feeling it. Our latest education secretary, Damien Hind, vows to cut workload to tackle teacher shortage. Workload is blamed for the cris

“...written marking had become unnecessarily burdensome for teachers” EEF Marking review Beyond the tumbling piles of unmarked books and half drunk coffee, sits your laptop, open on the last webpage - a Google search for ‘alternative careers to teaching’. Sounds like a typical Sunday evening right? We all suffer from it. It comes along once or twice a term (depending on your school's marking policy). It makes you lose sleep, cry, snap at your loved ones or reconsider your who