Other perks including nine-day fortnight and more planning time at home offered to attract recruits
Teachers at a state secondary school in west London say having a double period off one morning a week has changed their lives.Teachers at a state secondary school in west London say having a double period off one morning a week has changed their lives.are being offered a range of incentives to make the job more appealing, including two free periods a week to give them a lie-in, a nine-day fortnight and more planning time at home to help with work-life balance.
The Teach First CEO, Russell Hobby, said: “For too long conditions in the teaching profession have failed to keep pace with what the next generation of workers crave in a career – and what they can find in other sectors. “Teaching is a performance profession. You need to be on your A-game every single day of the week and that’s difficult,” said head teacher Andrew O’Neill. “My approach has always been that we need to treat teachers like elite athletes. They are given the best treatment. They are looked after and they’re cared for.”
Ajay Narisetti, head of RE, has been teaching for 18 years. For the first he has time on his hands every term-time Wednesday morning. “This is jackpot for me personally. I’m a family man with two children. It makes a huge difference just taking them to school in the morning.”
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