On the assignment of non-teaching tasks to reduce teachers' work pressure

Teachers in secondary schools experience high work pressure. One of the causes for this is the amount of non-teaching tasks that they have to do. An unsuccessful task assignment causes teachers to work on tasks they dislike, to work on more tasks than they actually should work on and to work until late in the evening. This paper presents a mixed integer linear programming model to assign non-teaching tasks to teachers, taking into account the preferences of the teachers, their workload targets and possible overwork caused by these tasks.