I think we sometimes get bogged down by the workload and forget the joy of teaching.
Although the classroom environment is very different to working in a newsroom, research, interaction with different people, managing different deadlines and workloads, are a big part of teaching as well, so I'm using a lot of the same skills".
Satisfaction was measured primarily via faculty surveys, which looked at leadership support, mentorship, availability of teaching resources, and workload, among other issues.
Although fewer than 8% of respondents made free text comments concerning barriers to teaching, the main themes arising were the low time allocation and low prioritisation of teaching over clinical workload, competing priorities within limited SPA time and the need to work out of hours in their own time to complete teaching responsibilities.
They also recognise some negative impact in their work as a result of teaching such as increased workload and less productivity, although findings are not consistent.
THE CHANGES TO THE CURRICULUM Rachel Whyld (pictured above), 23, is in her first qualified year of teaching history at the Morley Academy, Leeds "During term time the workload can be relentless – planning, marking, behaviour management, observations, parents' evening and data tracking.
Yet after four years of piling on the paperwork, supporting the downgrading of the teaching profession, opening underperforming free schools, and undermining the role of teaching assistants, the government is finally beginning to make noises about workload.
Further analysis revealed that BSRS-5 was negatively correlated with factor I "perceptions of teaching" in the PGY1 group alone and with factor II "perceptions of workload" in all three groups.
Last year, Mary Ann Wagner, 60, retired from her job as a school administrator, and Samuel Wagner, a 62-year-old professor of business administration at Franklin and Marshall College, reduced his workload to teach only one semester a year.
