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Reducing teacher workload must not mean narrowing the role
Solutions that separate care from teaching risk weakening both.
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The issue of teacher workload is invariably linked to teacher well-being and teacher attrition in different school systems.
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Jason Tan
A group of school principals was commissioned to visit “a selection of good schools” in the United Kingdom and the United States and draw lessons for Singapore. They published a report titled “Towards excellence in schools”.
In it, the principals mentioned that in all schools they visited, there was a clear separation between academic and non-academic duties, which reduced administrative work for teachers and allowed them to focus on professional matters.
