Pearson Pledge: Reducing Workload

We’re committed to helping reduce teacher workload

We understand the very real admin burden on teachers that takes away from teaching time and undermines teachers’ passion for teaching. Across Pearson we're working to support teachers with innovative technology that helps them to quickly and easily access effective resources.

Take a look at how we're working to help reduce workload for teachers of all subjects from 5 to 19.

What are we doing?

Taking the pain out of assessments

Assessments are necessary for understanding student progress but can be time consuming. Find out how innovations in assessments and markbooks are helping to manage the workload.

Learn more about progress assessments for secondary

Power Maths helps manage teacher workload

Find out how we've worked with teachers to create an effective primary maths course which supports teachers with workload.

Learn more about Power Maths for primary

Consistency of marking across your full cohort, plus analysis to track progression

We know how important it is for your students to be able to sit mock exam papers in preparation for their summer exams. We're also aware that mock exams can be a real burden on teachers’ time. That's why, following the success of our pilot with The Dean Trust, we're launching our new Mocks Service.

We'll provide schools and colleges with Pearson Edexcel GCSE and A level onscreen or paper-based assessments for use in mock exams. The papers can be marked by Pearson examiners or by school teaching staff.

There are three levels of service, you can find out about the levels in our infographic.

Download our infographic (PDF | 192 KB)

New marking pilot helps new examiners save time

We need teachers to mark examination papers and teachers can gain invaluable experience and insight from doing so, but the additional workload on an already over stretched profession can put teachers off.

Read how our marking pilot took a step towards removing the additional workload.

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Reliable, customisable assessments

We've created 1000s of reliable progress assessments for all EBacc subjects 11-16 with marking guidance and tools to help your school formulate 9-1 grade predictions and identify intervention requirements.

New Asssessment Builder allows you to create your own assessments from our bank of questions with accompanying guidance to help create assessments in line with best practice.

Find out how our progress assessments and markbooks can support your existing methods of measuring progress or provide a complete solution.

Learn more about progress assessments

Power Maths - reducing the admin burden

Power Maths is a whole-class mastery programme designed to spark curiosity and excitement and help you nurture confidence in maths. Working with teachers we wanted to ensure it helped to reduce the admin burden for teachers.

It's the only mastery programme perfectly aligned to the White Rose Maths progressions and schemes of learning, it's written specifically for UK classrooms by leading mastery experts, and is recommended by the DfE.*

See how one UK teacher feels about it in our new case study.

Read case study (PDF | 2.25 MB)

*Power Maths KS1 and KS2 has been judged by the DfE panel to meet the core criteria for a high-quality textbook. Read more.

Your licence to copy 5%

Copyright means that you need to seek permission before you can re-use published material. When you see this badge in a book it means that schools are licensed to copy 5% or one chapter from the book for lessons, to support learning as well as save valuable planning time.

Learn more about licence to copy

Register now and get access to digital versions of your schools books!

The CLA Education Platform enables you to make, share and store copies of extracts from digital books to support your teaching. You can access digital versions of books your school owns, to make and share copyright-compliant copies and store them for future use. Print copies for colleagues or students, or share straight to a student’s device. The platform is a more flexible way to work and is available to licensed schools at no additional cost.

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