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Marking: maintaining a work-life balance
How can teachers manage their marking and maintain a work-life balance? We link to strategies for reducing time spent marking. We also look at statutory guidance on work-life balance and relay Ofsted's clarification on inspectors' expectations for marking and feedback.
- Alcohol at staff parties
- Building relationships between staff
- Case studies on reducing marking workload
- Case studies on staff wellbeing and work-life balance
- Case study: how one 'outstanding' secondary school cut its marking workload by 75%
- Case study: how to offer flexible working to attract outstanding staff and boost retention
- Case study: save teachers 2 hours a day with strategic minimal marking
- Conquer your inbox: tips and tricks
- Creating a staff mental health and wellbeing action plan
- QuickRead: DfE report on workload and marking
- QuickRead: DfE report on workload and planning
- Effective flexible working arrangements
- Flexible working: examples
- Flexible working for senior leaders
- Improving staff wellbeing and work-life balance: strategies
- Managing workload (headteachers)
- Marking mythbuster
- New headteacher's presentation to staff: content
- Poll results: how to reduce your teachers' workload
- Pre-flight meeting checklist
- Rewarding staff: payments, perks and incentives
- Slash teachers' workload: what to stop doing
- Staff retention
- Staffroom: promoting a positive environment
- Staff survey pack
- Staff wellbeing days
- Staff wellbeing questionnaires
- Start-of-year presentations and meetings for staff
- Strategies to combat stress for small school headteachers
- Supporting trans staff
- Teacher workload audit tool
- What not to do with pupil performance data
- Workload: get to the heart of what's overloading your staff with 'keep, tweak or ditch'
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