No additional time has been provided to do this. When pushed, the Education Department told teachers to do the job even if it meant taking time off from teaching their final lessons to these students : an impossible decision to make and cynically calculated with the knowledge that teachers would rather perform unpaid overtime than disadvantage their students.
Victorian teachers are in the classroom on average two hours longer per week than teachers in similar countries to Australia. Workload is the biggest challenge facing them, with only 30 minutes outside the classroom to plan and assess…
