Despite a promise to save teachers five hours per week, a long-awaited audit of administrative tasks in NSW public schools has failed to recommend any tasks for removal. While the audit identified numerous processes considered burdensome by teachers, it offered no clear solutions for reducing workload.
Managing students' medication, dealing with school refusers, and writing plans to address difficult behavior are among the biggest drains on teacher time, a report auditing administrative tasks in the public education system has found. But the long-awaited audit failed to identify any bureaucratic tasks which should be axed, despite NSW Labor promising before the last state election to save five hours of teachers' time each week.
\The audit identified 105 tasks with processes considered “frustrating, painful, cumbersome, or overly complex” by teachers who attended workshops. “The consistent reporting of increasing and sustained workload pressures on teachers is a clear signal that more needs to be done to support teachers to keep pace with schools’ contemporary roles and responsibilities,” the report concluded, while principals say bureaucratic requirements are a barrier to reducing workload. \Late arrivals and early departures, behavior support plans, and medication management were cited as particularly demanding tasks. Denise Lofts, president of the NSW Secondary Principals’ Council, suggested that rethinking some teacher jobs, such as data collection requirements, could free up time for teaching. Lofts argued that growing data requirements are often unnecessary. “But if you think about anaphylaxis plans, ADHD meds and asthma medication – they are about individual care of students. While this is important, it is actually becoming a massive burden. Between medication and behavior plans, there seems to be no room for teaching.” Opposition education spokeswoman Sarah Mitchell criticized the government’s lack of progress on its commitment to reduce administrative burdens. She insisted that the audit, which didn’t identify any tasks to be removed, failed to offer any measurable metrics for time saved. Acting Education Minister John Graham defended the audit as a first step and emphasized the government's commitment to achieving the five-hour time saving. He pointed out that the previous Liberal-National government had neglected to investigate teachers' tasks for 12 years
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