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Teachers' unions have broadly welcomed the new guidelines but the EIS said they won't solve the behavioural problems in schools without significantly more resources and staff to support kids.

EIS general secretary Andrea Bradley said it was set to ballot members over strike action because the Scottish government had failed to reduce the amount of time teachers must spend in the classroom.

The EIS survey was completed by almost 11,000 teachers – about 20% of its membership.

Alison, who has been a primary school teacher for 13 years and is an EIS representative, says she almost burnt out completely at the start of her career.

She said that "failure" would lead to the EIS opening a consultative ballot on industrial action at its annual general meeting later this week.