Second jobs, burnout and too much work: Teachers demoralised as education ministers meet for crisis talks on staff shortages
ABCFive days a week, Karl* goes to work as a high school teacher, planning lessons, marking tests, and dealing with admin. "The big word that I would use to describe what's happening to teachers is demoralisation," says Gabbie Stroud, a former teacher and author of a book about her own burnout. "One of the really key strategies, we believe, to support the workforce going forward is to get much better at recognising teaching expertise," says Jordana Hunter, education program director at the Grattan Institute. "It's really hitting students hard … this lack of time for teachers to think really carefully about how they're going to deliver their lessons because instead they're scrambling on Google and Pintrest." "Obviously we need to address shortages, but we also have to make it a rewarding job now and keep the great teachers we already have in the classroom," she says.
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