Primary teacher work study report

Jenny Wilkinson, ACER
Lawrence Ingvarson, ACER
Elizabeth Kleinhenz, ACER
Adrian Beavis, ACER

Abstract

This research was conducted by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) in 2005. The study was a result of the Primary Teachers Collective Agreement 2004-2007 which specified that a workload study be complete to consider how the work of a teacher could be better stuctured, resourced and organised to support more effective classroom teaching. The purpose of the study was to gain an understanding of the nature and patterns of primary teachers' work. The research was commissioned by the Ministry of Education.