Teacher Well-being Survey (Responses).xlsx

After the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, the NEU (2021) report that one in three teachers plan to leave the profession in the next five years. As previous studies published by the DfE (2016, 2016a, 2016b and 2016c) focusing on workload have not affected the wastage rate of the profession, there is something deeper at work which needs to be explored.

A critical theory, mixed method approach is used to gain a breadth and depth of understanding of the attitudes of 55 respondents to a survey and 17 participants in semi-structured interviews. All data collection was carried out in secondary schools in Lincolnshire, where teacher pay is good in comparison to the county average of workforce pay. These methods aim to test the assumption that concerns about workload and pay are causing teachers’ discontent. This data set is for the quantitative surevy second of thw work.