APRES COVID: What is long-term impact of the COVID crisis on teachers?
While teaching has long been acknowledged as a demanding profession, too often, the true extent of the workload remains hidden from public view. With Europe currently facing a sharp teacher shortage, high workloads and unsustainable work-life balance are central issues for recruiting and retaining qualified teachers. This month, the ETUCE campaign Make Teaching Attractive delves into the critical issues in ensuring workload control and promoting work-life balance for education staff at all levels, shedding light on these unseen aspects of the teaching profession and advocates for measures to alleviate the strain on teachers.
APRES COVID: What is long-term impact of the COVID crisis on teachers?
The COVID-19 crisis has profoundly had an unprecedented transformative impacted the education sector. The magnified use of digital technologies and artificial intelligence in education, the use of new education platform and tools to communicate with students and teachers are just a few examples of the long-lasting impact of the COVID-19 crisis having an impact on teachers’ workload. While enabling innovation and new solution, the changes triggered by the COVID crisis also reinforce pre-existing issues and pushed the emergences of new challenges for the workload and work-life balance of teachers. In this context, ETUCE has recently launched the 2-year social dialogue project ‘APRES COVID’. The initiative aims to assess the long-term impact of the COVID crisis on the psychosocial risks in the teaching profession and underscores the need for sustainable solutions to address the long-term impact on teachers’ workload and work-life balance.