With a recent report about the stress levels of teachers in the UK soaring we have to ask ourselves the question, are we putting too much pressure on our teachers?

When a teacher gains their qualifications at university they then become a NQT (newly qualified teacher) once employed at a school they are then subjected to many classroom assessments and lesson observations where their work is scrutinised and graded accordingly. Add to this the pressure the school faces during the lead up to an Ofsted inspection and you have a recipe for one very stressed out teacher.

The education system as it stands is demanding more and more of a paper trail to evidence all lesson planning, individual child assessment plans and development programs for each child however teachers are not being given any additional time to get all this paperwork done, which results in long working hours as well as teaches having to do school work over a weekend.

Until we take a serious look at reforming the current education system and our expectation of teachers, we are going to continue to lose good teachers due to them being under too much pressure and not coping with the stress it causes.