Education Motions

Motions

Resolutions

1. North Lanarkshire Local Association

"That this AGM recognises that workload continues to impact on a teachers’ work/life balance and calls on Council to review and publicise provisions in place to control workload."

Carried

2. Edinburgh Local Association

"That this AGM instruct Council to commission, as soon as is practicable, independent research that considers the workload of teachers, the extra hours they work beyond their contractual hours as a consequence of their workload, and the main reasons for the failure to achieve a 35-hour working week for teachers."

Carried

3. Council

"That this AGM resolves to continue the EIS's close engagement with the processes of Education Reform, building on the strong contributions to the policy debate made on behalf of members as part of the OECD Review of Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence, the Muir Review, and the work being led by Professor Louise Hayward towards reforming assessment and qualifications."

Carried

4. South Lanarkshire Local Association

"That this AGM believes that the replacement for the SQA should have permanent teacher trade union representation in its structures to ensure that the professional voice is heard and instructs Council to campaign for this."

Carried

5. North Lanarkshire Local Association

"That this AGM calls on Council to engage with Scottish Government and Education Scotland to end the process of publishing Quality Indicator evaluation grades in all education establishment inspection reports."

Carried

6. Council

"That this AGM is deeply concerned at the Scottish Government's decision to proceed with further significant investment in SNSAs in spite of sustained EIS challenge to this assessment approach and OECD advice that SNSAs are of limited value.

Further, this AGM resolves to:

1. seek fresh evidence of the views of EIS members on the administration and educational worth of SNSAs, based on their professional experience of using the assessments and the associated data;

2. use this evidence to inform any further development of EIS assessment policy, as appropriate; and

3. use the information gathered from members to shape relevant future dialogue and campaigning around SNSAs and wider assessment approaches, with Scottish Government, local authorities, parents' organisations and relevant national agencies."

Carried

7. Fife Local Association

"That this AGM instruct Council to investigate and report on the mental health provision across Scotland for Primary and Secondary aged children."

Amendment Scottish Borders Local Association

After "Scotland" in line 2, insert ",by authority,"

Amendment Inverclyde Local Association

After "for" in line 2, insert "Early Years".

Carried

8. Glasgow Local Association & South Lanarkshire Local Association

"That this AGM believes that all teachers require secure IT hardware and software to discharge their duties whether working in schools or at place of their choosing, and that employers should therefore provide such. We call on the EIS to ascertain current provision in local authorities with a view to campaigning for all teacher employers to provide teachers with essential IT software and hardware."

Carried

9. Inverclyde Local Association

"That this AGM call on Council to lobby Scottish Government for a fully funded, long-term recovery programme to address the social, emotional, behavioural, and developmental impacts of Covid-19 lockdowns and family traumas on our children and young people which are impacting on their attainment and achievement.

The campaign should focus on the need for increased capacity across education support services and should include, but is not limited to, an increase to core Educational Psychology provision, family support services, and CAMHS provision."

Carried

10. North Lanarkshire Local Association

"That this AGM calls on Council to investigate and report on which authorities are resourcing and running an alternative curriculum within mainstream schools to support children and young people with social, emotional and behavioural needs rather than the presumption to mainstreaming within classrooms with a focus upon improving educational engagement and outcomes."

Carried

11. Dundee Local Association

"That this AGM reaffirms the EIS's commitment to favouring a model of subject specialist Principal Teachers over Faculty heads."

Carried

12. Renfrewshire Local Association

"That this AGM instruct Council to survey members who teach Mathematics to ascertain whether they would prefer National 4 Mathematics and National 4 Applications, to include a final examination."

Withdrawn

13. Renfrewshire Local Association

"That this AGM instructs Council to campaign for an improvement in the consistency and quality of Primary Physical Education ensuring that it is delivered by suitably qualified GTCS teaching staff."

Carried.

14. North Lanarkshire Local Association

"That this AGM calls on Council to survey Home Economics Teachers to investigate and report;

1. auxiliary provision at local authority and school level.

2. the extent that teachers undertake administrative and non-teaching duties which are generally undertaken by auxiliary staff.

3. how this impacts on workload, teaching and learning if there is no auxiliary provision."

Carried

15. Glasgow Local Association

"That this AGM call on Council to investigate and report on the practice of supporting student teachers across local authorities with particular reference to the allocation of time for staff."

Carried