Teachers have a huge amount of work to complete after the school day has finished and this can prove challenging for many, especially if they have a family or hobbies that they spend time doing out of work hours.
There is not only the marking of work to be done but also the planning and preparation for the following weeks / days’ work that needs to be completed in a certain way. If there is an Ofsted inspection looming this again adds more to a teachers work load along with report writing and parent’s evenings.
So how to you plan this all in still allowing yourself that all important down time. The key is preparation. Making your own timetable of when is work time and when is down time is vital to making sure that everything gets done as and when it should. It may be that when you have created your first timetable that it needs to be tweaked a number of times in the first few months to find a schedule that fits in with you.