More than half of Scottish teachers working an extra eight hours a week

Hardly surprising news. Most teachers everywhere in Australia are working well in excess of these hours every week! Education department staff, who don’t teach in the classroom, keep wanting to load teachers with more useless ‘planning’ ideas, that usually entail copy and pasting from one document to another, or ‘performance development’ agenda that is totally irrelevant to the majority of classroom teachers, just so they can ‘tick a box’ on their own next step up the ladder. Let us teach!