ABSTRACT
This chapter reports the findings about the total time spent on work by primary school classteachers. In addition to the time spent on work at school, it includes time spent away from school, in the evenings and at weekends. We might think of this as the ‘extensiveness’ of teachers’ work, in that we have been measuring the number of hours per week that teachers spend on their work. The cautions we expressed in Chapter 1 (p. 19) about interpreting these figures should be borne in mind here. The findings are derived from the four studies of primary teachers’ work, which all used a similar methodology involving logging time on the specially devised Record of Teacher Time, outlined in Chapter 1 and discussed more fully in Chapter 7. The data were collected over the period from Spring term 1990 to Autumn term 1991. The samples had different characteristics, as was mentioned in Chapter 1, and we provide details here before presenting the general findings.
