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Recent study shows 75% of teachers have “suffered either physically or mentally because of their jobs”

  • Posted by Chris Lincoln
  • On 19th September 2017

A study conducted by the Education Support Partnership for BBC London’s Inside Out programme has suggested that 75% of teachers have suffered wellbeing issues related to their roles within schools.

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The research, which recorded 1,250 responses, identifies a higher number of teachers found to be at ‘breaking point’ than the 62% identified in previous studies. With planning, marking and assessments taking hold of teachers beyond their contracted working hours, a large quantity are leaving the profession and Headteachers are struggling to recruit members of staff for their schools.

The Department for Education responded by claiming “teachers play a hugely important role in our society and there are now more teachers in our schools than ever before. We are actively addressing the issues that teachers cite as reasons for leaving the profession, for example by supporting schools to reduce unnecessary workload.”

Further concerns sit with the children and the future of their education. Naturally, if a teacher is under pressure they are unlikely to be able to deliver the best quality lessons, thus affecting the content consumed by the children in that class.

Emily Turner, a former primary school teacher, told the BBC “it just started to become this cycle of me feeling like I wasn’t teaching well enough because I was depressed and that was making me more depressed. It just continued to spiral.”                                                                                                                                           Something needs to change within the education sector but not many school staff can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Others are trying to consider new ways of putting their wellbeing first with some staff after school clubs becoming prominent in a handful of cases.

 

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Graham Morgan
  • Sep 19 2017
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The Health and Wellbeing concerns for both teachers and pupils are now reaching alarming levels. Physical Health and Emotional Wellbeing must feature more prominently in schools. The health of teachers and pupils is more important than the exam grades they produce. Health needs to be approached directly and no longer through the filter of Sport. Health should be a major subject on the curriculum. Children and their teachers deserve better than to be fodder for a misguided education system which is dominated by academic exams and tests.
Graham Morgan
  • Sep 20 2017
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Education needs a rethink by the top decision makers if the current downward spiral of Health and Wellbeing among teachers and pupils is to be halted. The current system whereby exam grades are perceived as more important that the teachers and pupils who are pressured into producing them must be re-tuned. Health must be among the top priorities in Education - for both teachers and pupils. If this were to happen then health and education would both gain simultaneously.

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