About the Teaching Commission
Our partners
The Teaching Commission has been made possible through the invaluable support and generosity of our core partners and funders. Their commitment to the future of education has enabled us to bring together leading voices from across the teaching profession to address the most pressing challenges facing educators today.
Why now? What’s changed?
The new Labour Government has made a manifesto commitment to recruit 6,500 teachers to educate the nation’s children. Bridget Phillipson, the Education Secretary, has promised to reset the relationship between government and teachers.
These are important and very welcome changes. They show the Government’s serious commitment to raising education standards.
There is no denying, however, that these aims become harder to achieve with the current crisis in teacher supply.
What will the Teaching commission do?
The Commission will answer the question: what must be done to recreate teaching as an attractive and sustainable profession?
The Commission will listen hard to the views of teachers and leaders, Government and employers,and a range of stakeholders, to recommend policies and practices to improve the working lives of teachers in school and to improve the status of the profession.
The Commission will ask important questions:
01 What are the causes of excessive and intensive teacher workload in England’s schools and how can these be addressed?
02 How can school leaders, at every level of leadership, create working cultures which are positive, which make the best use of teachers’ professional skills, knowledge and expertise and support good physical and mental health?
03 How schools should adapt to promote flexible working, in line with other graduate professions?
04 How competitive is teacher pay in comparison with other graduate professions?
05 What are the effects of the current accountability system, including inspection, on teacher and leader recruitment and retention?
06 What are the effects on teachers and leaders of the growth in child relative and absolute poverty combined with the cuts in local authority children’s services on teacher and leader recruitment and retention?
07 What could the English system learn from international examples of education systems with much better teacher recruitment and retention rates?
What difference will the Teaching Commission make?
The Teaching Commission’s recommendations will be published on this website which will also contain research summaries of the evidence the Commission has considered and case studies of schools which are effectively improving the working lives of teachers and leaders.
The website will become an invaluable tool for schools leaders and teachers. It will be free to access and will be refreshed by emerging evidence and case studies of schools where teacher professionalism is supported, their skills developed and their time is valued.
Our Commissioners
We are proud to introduce the commissioners of the Teaching Commission, a group of passionate and dedicated individuals representing a broad spectrum of expertise across the teaching profession.
The teaching commission is chaired by Professor Mary Bousted.
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