According to 70% of teachers polled by Teacher Tapp, going part time will damage your career prospects.
Given that we are in the midst of a teacher recruitment and retention crisis, this would seem remarkably short-sighted.
At my school part timers are not allowed to apply for TLRs. Part time requests are granted, but then part timers are treated as an inconvenience who should suck up whatever timetable they’re given. I suspect that SLT, who are vast majority male, would argue that they actually treat part timers well.
I’ve found the Burgundy Book to be spectacularly unhelpful as it is written with the assumption that part timers have full days off. Part timers who have full days off can’t be directed to work an INSET day that falls on their day off or should be paid extra to do so, same if a parents’ evening falls on their day off. But if you are a part timer who works every day, then you can definitely be expected to work a parents’ evening/INSET on a day where you only work P1 and 2. You can be expected to attend meetings after school on a day when you finish teaching at lunch.
There’s absolutely no requirement to ensure that your timetable doesn’t have you teaching P3 and nothing else that day, which is a nightmare for childcare, or that you are teaching P1 and P5 with the rest of the day unpaid.
How does your school treat part timers? Should the Burgundy Book be updated to reflect the reality of part time working and to create national guidelines?
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Going part time as a teacher damages your career. Time for national guidelines?
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noblegiraffe · 12/01/2020 12:36
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