Management > Remodelling the Workforce > Good Practice > Managing PPA
Context
Three classes, two of which have a full time
teacher, the third one is a 'job share' i.e. part
time teacher + headteacher. This arrangement involves
the headteacher working 2.0 days each week in the
classroom.
Part time teacher (on top of her scale + one
management point) is successful in obtaining a
full time post elsewhere.
Headteacher with the backing of the governors
(and a reasonably healthy budget) decides to employ
a full time 'less expensive' teacher and to reduce
her workload but at the same time look towards
a particular PPA strategy.
Result
The Head who is able to cover each class in turn
provides each class teacher with half a day a week
PPA time. (Each teacher, at present, leaves school
at lunchtime on their allocated day and works at
home. This 'non-contact time' will be converted
to PPA time in September 2005.)
This also allows the Head to retain a teaching
commitment, which she values, and to have personal
contact with each child in school each week.
The Head has been able to reduce her teaching
timetable to 1.5 days per week.
The budget, for the foreseeable future, is able
to sustain such a strategy.
