[senco-forum] Support staff

Is this some form of Parkinson's Law?  The quantity of work do to expands in direct proportion to the number of people available to do it.

I am watching, goggle eyed, the number of TLR posts with incomprehesible titles that are proliferating at my workplace.

Maggie 

Amanda <amandavh at btinternet.com> wrote: Hello
  I've been reading all the messages about cover supervisors with interest.  And it set me thinking about support staff.

  Has anyone else noticed how many people it takes to do the jobs teachers used to do in addition to teaching?
  Examples: 
  work related learning - we now have someone who works for four days a week on work experience admin and paper work for all the pupils doing work related learning
  exam officer - we have two people who are going to work for one whole day a week each on this plus all day every day during exam times
  invigilators - one chief invigilator and up to four more invigiltors
  cover supervisor - we have one who works full-time with an agreement that she covers for up to two days plus for things like meetings etc
  sports co-ordinator - ours works for two days a week in our school and our primary schools
  I could go on and on.  What I want to know is why all these extra people doing administrative jobs haven't meant that I have more time for PPA!!!

  Amanda
  Secondary SENCO
  Cornwall

Amanda
Secondary SENCO
Cornwall

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