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Life After Teaching
Teaching has become an increasingly stressful occupation, especially over the past few years. Stress is evidenced by high absentee rates due to illness and the large numbers of teachers leaving the profession. Most teachers do not realise that they are stressed, until they leave teaching.
Teachers' stress has many sources. 1.Having very limited control of the teaching day is stressful.
2.Moving between six teaching rooms in a day is a major cause of stress.
3.Finding the time to mark three sets of books every day is impossible.
4.Planning lessons, especially in a teacher's first few years gets priority over relaxation and family life.
5.Teaching six different groups of students in a day causes stress.
9.6.Parents' evenings, after a hard day's teaching, cause extra anxiety.
7.Poorly managed staff and departmental meetings with pointless agendas eat into precious time away from work.
8.Parents' imagined grievances over their offspring's lack of progress cause conflict with colleagues.
10.Having to work in the evenings giving private tuition or marking exam papers to earn more money can raise teachers' blood pressure.
11.Constant change for change's sake in syllabuses and exam structure add to teachers' stress levels. Inexperienced or young teachers are often struggling with discipline problems in the classroom, further affecting their health.
Teachers usually cite the long summer holidays as the main reason for staying in the profession. Teachers NEED six weeks off in the summer, just to regain their sanity! Individuals stay in teaching, largely because the job is a secure one with a good pension scheme and because they cannot work out how else they might earn a living. Teachers are increasingly looking for ways out of the classroom at an earlier age. Many more are looking for alternative sources of income and a way to reduce their teaching hours. Leaving teaching needs a long-term plan. This plan will have more than one strand and should provide for multiple earning opportunities.
Every teacher over 40 has looked at early retirement and certainly a deferred pension provides a safety net for retirement. Taking your pension early though should be a last resort because it will be reduced for every year prior to your 60th birthday that it is paid. Check out the teachers pensions website for details of what your pension would be.
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