[School name]

School Workload Reduction Plan 2016-2017

Purpose
In accordance with Section Q of the ACTPS Education and Training
Directorate (Teaching Staff) Enterprise Agreement 2014-2018 and related
Section Q Guidelines: Addressing teacher workload, the School Workload
Committee will develop the School Workload Reduction Plan to:

identify tasks, practices and procedures, which may be removed,

reduced and/or reassigned, in order to achieve a sustainable reduction
in teacher workload
effectively utilise the additional resources made available to the school
to facilitate teacher workload reduction
monitor and evaluate workload reduction measures to ensure
sustainability and fairness.

The School Workload Reduction Plan has three elements:

1. effective use of new resources
2. identification of other measures within the school to reduce teacher
workload
3. data collection and evaluation processes.

1. Effective use of new resources

What key administrative tasks can you identify to reduce the workload of
teachers to ensure they are able to focus on their core role?

What administrative tasks currently done by teachers should be done

by others? (See Section Q Guidelines for examples.)
Do we need to keep doing any of these tasks?
Who else should do these tasks? (e.g. school assistants, school
leadership, other)
What are the priorities for achieving workload reduction for the most
number of teachers?
How should the new resources be deployed to perform these tasks?
Is this the fairest way?

Key Actions in priority order

1.1
1.2

By when

By whom

2. Identification of other measures within the school to

reduce teacher workload
What else can we do to reduce teacher workload?

What other administrative and decision-making processes could be

changed to reduce the workload of teachers?
What are some straight forward changes we can make to current
practices in administration and decision making?

Key Actions
2.1
2.2

By when

By whom

3. Data collection and evaluation processes

How will we know that we have reduced workload?

What data do we need to collect under Priorities 1 and 2?

What will indicate that our workload reduction is sustainable and fair?
How will we monitor workload reduction and communicate with staff?

Data to be collected
3.1
3.2

When

How

Signed:
(Principal)

Signed:
(School Workload Committee Chair)

Date:

Date:

Please forward to the System Workload Leadership Team

Contact details: TBA