About Remodelling
Remodelling is designed to enhance the status and work/life balance of all who work in our schools. It enables teachers to focus more effectively on their teaching and provides every pupil with a chance to achieve greater success.
The Opportunity
Remodelling is an opportunity to reassess the work and role of everyone involved in educating young people. It has the potential to significantly improve pupils' learning opportunities and standards of achievement.
Remodelling is not a "nice to do" it's a "must do". A combination of social and technological changes, employment legislation, Government initiatives and pupil assessment are all driving change at breakneck speed.
Schools are under pressure to raise standards and tackle workload, while at the same time having to deal with a number of unavoidable issues:
- Workload is the major reason cited by teachers for leaving the profession.
- Over 30 percent of a teacher's working week prior to the National Agreement was spent on non-teaching activities.
- Teachers generally had a poor work/life balance.
- 45 percent of teachers are due to retire within the next 15 years.
- 1 in 5 NQTs leave the profession before they reach their fourth year of teaching.
- There is a need for development of professional support staff.
- There are specific teacher shortages in a number of key subjects.
Collectively, the remodelling community has the potential to enhance the status of everyone who works in schools, improve recruitment and retention, challenge traditional practices and help create a modern workforce.