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Transforming the school workforce
Estelle Morris launched the Transforming the School Workforce pathfinder project in January 2002 as part of the Governments agenda to remodel the school workforce. The pathfinder schools are exploring new ways to use their workforce and resources so that teachers can spend more time teaching, thus raising standards. Schools and teachers can find out what works best for them and share that knowledge with us and other schools around the country.
In April 2002 the DfES selected and announced a broad cross-section of 32 schools to explore these new ways of working.
The full project was under way by September 2002 and will run for one academic year. Working with the DfES, the London Leadership Centre and their designated School Workforce Adviser, the pathfinder schools are already developing and putting into practice strategies to address teacher workload, remodel the way they work and raise standards.
Some examples of this include:
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The deployment of additional administrative and clerical staff to take on activities identified by the School Teachers Review Body as tasks that need not be carried out routinely by classroom teachers
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Blue Sky staff events held to consider radical remodelling solutions to excessive workload
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Use of teaching assistants to provide further non-contact time for teachers by transferring cover
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Developing Learn Centres supported by online resources and staffed largely by teaching assistants
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Advanced pastoral and social roles for adults other than teachers within the school, building on existing work with learning mentors, youth workers etc.
Each school has established a school change team to develop their remodelling work. The composition, size and responsibilities of these change teams varies slightly from school to school. Some include governors, pupils and parents, and each has been created with guidance from the schools Adviser and from the London Leadership Centre. As well as helping to develop the ideas and proposals with each schools change plan, the school change teams will also play a vital role in communicating changes to all interested parties staff, students, parents, LEAs, the DfES, etc. and ensuring change is managed effectively.
Read the case studies to find out more.
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