A recent survey has shown that a huge number of teachers leave the education industry within their first year. After three of four years training, it seemed odd to be that so many teachers leave to take up another career so quickly.
After doing some extensive research I started to realise that this was mostly due to the immense pressure they were under and often lack of support. You may have heard people say that teachers have it easy, working nine till three, Monday to Friday and long school holidays, but what they may not see is the additional work that goes on behind the scenes.
Most teachers start their working day about 8.15 or even earlier if commuting and do not actually leave school till around five. Once they get home their day still hasn’t finished as they need to plan and prepare for the next day’s lessons and also mark students work. If they also have an inspection or are being assessed then they need to fit in extra time for that.