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Expectations and requirements for teaching staff
- Allowing staff to do private tutoring You can decide how to handle staff who want to work as private tutors outside of school hours. Get help with figuring out what approach to take, including if they should be able to tutor your pupils or work on school premises.
- Lesson planning: what are reasonable expectations? Should we have a detailed policy on lesson planning? We relay advice on reasonable expectations for teachers in relation to planning. We also look at Ofsted's expectations, and look at whether absent teachers should be asked to plan cover work.
- Monitoring medium-term planning (primary) What is good practice when monitoring medium-term planning? We relay advice from a consultant headteacher and a union, and look at an example of a school's monitoring arrangements.
- Monitoring teachers' planning: short-term plans Are teachers required to hand in short-term plans each week? This article cites guidance from the DfE and the Independent Teacher Workload Review Group on lesson planning.
- Upper pay range (UPR): additional responsibilities Find out about your requirements around having teachers on the upper pay range (UPR) take on additional responsibilities, including rules around payments.
- Upper pay range (UPR): criteria to meet when applying Understand the requirements for moving to the upper pay range (UPR). Use our examples from schools and experts to get ideas for how to set your criteria