The North Carolina
Teacher Working Conditions Survey is a tool that gauges NC Educators» perspectives about teaching and learning conditions while providing education stakeholders and policymakers insights on how to improve school and classroom practices.
Sources: Adapted from Teacher Working Conditions Are Student Learning Conditions: A Report to Governor Mike Easley on the 2004
Teacher Working Conditions Survey by E. Hirsch, March, 2005, Chapel Hill, NC: Southeast Center for Teaching Quality; and Listening to the Experts: A Report on the 2004 South Carolina
Teacher Working Conditions Survey by E. Hirsch, March, 2005, Chapel Hill, NC: Southeast Center for Teaching Quality.
Listening to the experts: A report on the 2004 South Carolina
teacher working conditions survey.
Not exact matches
Supply
teachers are facing a raft of exploitative employment practices, including denial of entitlements on pay, pensions and
working conditions, a
survey by the NASUWT, the largest
teachers» union in the UK, has found.
In a recent
survey by Public Agenda, more than 80 percent of
teachers said that without unions, they would be vulnerable to the vagaries of school politics, and their salaries and
working conditions would be much worse.
School Climate: North Carolina conducts an annual
survey of
teachers»
working conditions.
shows
teachers how to
work with their class to
survey and record the
condition of a local memorial, exploring the lives of those commemorated there.
As advocates pore over the results of
teacher surveys being conducted nationally, at the state level, and even at individual schools, observers are beginning to ask questions about how the information can be used to inform policies to improve
teachers»
working conditions and promote
teacher and leadership effectiveness.
The
survey shows that more than three quarters of
teachers today (including more than 70 percent of new
teachers) say that, absent the union, their
working conditions and salaries would suffer.
In 2011, Kentucky implemented the TELL Kentucky
Survey to allow
teacher voice on key
working conditions such as facilities, resources, leadership, professional development, time, etc..
In short, the
survey shows that American
teachers today
work harder under much more challenging
conditions than
teachers elsewhere in the industrialized world.
Of course, some disparity in perceptions between school leaders and
teachers is to be expected, as would be the case with most business or other organizational
surveys regarding
working conditions.
The
survey was administered again in North Carolina in 2004 but moved online and expanded to include 72 questions that not only captured
teachers» perceptions of
working conditions but also actual
conditions of
work (e.g., the number of hours spent outside of the school day on instruction and types of professional development courses taken).
In 2002, under the leadership of Governor Mike Easley, North Carolina became the first state to implement a statewide study of
teacher working conditions by
surveying teachers and administrators across the state.
Then, in 2002, the state launched a biannual
survey of its 90,000 +
teachers to collect data on their job satisfaction and
working conditions.
Just as Robert Marzano found that leadership affects other
working conditions,
survey results showed that each of the five domains is positively and significantly correlated with the other domains and that
teachers» positive or negative perceptions about one area can affect their perception of their
working conditions as a whole.
The results of new AFT
survey on well - being,
working conditions and stressors for
teachers and school support staff across the country provide much - needed information about sources of stress on the job.
The
survey, which required about 20 minutes to complete, measured the collective leadership and
teacher - performance antecedents described in our framework: 9 items measured collective leadership, 9 items measured
teacher capacity, 17 items measured
teacher motivation, and 14 items measured
teacher work settings or
conditions.
Using data from the 2003 — 2004 Schools and Staffing
Survey, this article compares
teacher working conditions in charter schools and traditional public schools through propensity score matching and weighted hierarchical linear modeling.