by Fiona Millar on (#3MBJ5)
The founders of Teacher Tapp, which surveys every aspect of teachers’ lives, hope their data can help improve retentionDoes it matter how often teachers go to the pub together, who they are in relationships with, or whether they do marking in the Easter holidays?Such quirky details about the hidden lives of the people who educate our children could be dismissed as irrelevant. However, that would be a mistake, say the founders of a new app designed to capture a real-time picture of the habits and motivation of the workforce of nearly half a million. Prof Becky Allen and Laura McInerney, a Guardian columnist, are former teachers who believe that understanding more about teachers’ lives could be the key to keeping them in the profession for longer. That is why they got together with a physics teacher, Alex Weatherall, to develop an app that gets daily insights into what teachers are doing and how they are feeling. Continue reading...