As one accomplished teacher stated during an online conversation
about teacher working conditions: «My darkest hours of teaching were when I had no one else to talk to about student achievement and effective instruction.
Not exact matches
Bennett took to the union's Facebook page at noon,
about an hour before the district's plans were released, pledging to defend
teachers» «personal leave, comp time and your contractual right to
work in safe
conditions.»
«Women
teachers have expressed their deep anger at the way in which they have been treated over recent years and
about the successive attacks on their pay,
working conditions and job security.
«This research demonstrates the genuine concern amongst
teachers about what Brexit will mean for their jobs,
working conditions and rights at
work.
The president of the New York State United
Teachers federation, Karen Magee, spoke to a large crowd
about the accomplishments of the labor movement including better safety
conditions, weekends and the 40 - hour
work week.
Our lack of information
about employer - initiated moves may lead to an underestimate of the improvements in pay and
working conditions achieved by
teachers who move voluntarily, but the size of this underestimate is probably not very large.
There is absolutely no doubt that the HSE's report — and the numerous others which present a similar picture
about the
teacher workforce — reflect a real and very worrying prevalence of
work ‑ related stress and associated
conditions amongst
teachers and other education workers.
Complaints
about pay and
working conditions are the most common explanations among
teachers, but many cite a lack of administrative support, flawed accountability systems, and the drudgery of paperwork and testing.
One of the more common claims
about work conditions is that
teachers work longer hours than nonteachers.
I've watched the leaders of our
teachers» unions talking
about how
teacher pay is poor and
teacher working conditions are poor and everything's poor and everyone is doing badly, but that they are going to fix it.
«Part of this is
working with the
teachers to help them to create those
conditions to allow for that, but also to help them to help the students to understand that it's perfectly normal to find something difficult and confusing and that actually might be quite an important part of the process of updating the way they think
about something,» he says.
On average, U.S.
teachers earn only
about two - thirds of the salaries of other professions with comparable preparation, there is little room for advancement within the profession, and the
working conditions in many public schools are challenging at best.
«NASUWT members and
teachers generally have been appalled by the EIS statements, which have not diminished their anger
about cuts to their pay, deterioration in their
working conditions and crushing workload burdens.»
This Informed Educator looks at recent research on
teacher opinions
about their
working conditions to address the question: «What matters to
teachers?»
Perhaps at no other time in the history of American education has there been more publicly available information
about what
teachers think
about their profession, their students, and the
conditions under which they
work.
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 framework for our overall project also points to the mostly indirect influence of principals «actions on students and on student learning.223 Such actions are mediated, for example, by school
conditions such as academic press, 224 with significant consequences for teaching and learning and for powerful features of classroom practice such as
teachers «uses of instructional time.225 Evidence - informed decision making by principals, guided by this understanding of principals «
work, includes having and using a broad array of evidence
about many things: key features of their school «s external context; the status of school and classroom
conditions mediating leaders «own leadership practices; and the status of their students «learning.
In these fourteen studies, the context or
conditions that shape
teacher leader practice (e.g., the norms of interactions
about what
teacher leaders believe they can and can not say or do in their
work with
teachers) was not the focus of inquiry and the studies do not investigate how these
conditions contribute to the impact of
teacher leader practice on
teacher practice.
Charlotte - Mecklenburg Schools will close schools on May 16, when
about 2,000 of the district's
teachers plan to march in Raleigh for better pay and
working conditions.
Labor leaders say they are trying to make inroads into charter schools because
teachers are complaining
about low pay and subpar
working conditions, Newsmax reported.
Charter public schools provide school
teachers, administrators, and board members the flexibility to shape important decisions
about working conditions; the mission, curriculum and instruction, programs and services, schedules, budgeting, and staffing — with the goal of improving educational outcomes for students.
«Rather,
teachers are leaving largely because oppressive policies and practices are affecting their
working conditions and beliefs
about themselves and education.»
If we're serious
about retaining quality
teachers in high - poverty communities, we need to give those
teachers sustainable
working conditions.
While many
teachers rightfully complain
about pay scales and
working conditions, others create space for their own and other's empowerment by becoming leaders in their schools and districts.
Betty Olson - Jones, a
teacher and former President of the Oakland Education Association, the city's
teacher union, testified
about poor
working conditions in the district and the high rate of
teacher turnover and burnout.
In charter schools,
teachers, administrators, and board members shape important decisions
about working conditions, including the mission, curriculum and instruction, programs and services, schedules, budgeting, and staffing — with the goal of improving educational outcomes for students.
She said that criticisms in some quarters of the Common Core state standards and the Smarter Balanced tests that students will take this spring are «contributing to concerns
about the
working conditions of
teachers.»
Here are some articles that provide a broader picture of this crisis (you might also be interested in The Best Posts & Articles
About The Importance Of
Teacher (& Student)
Working Conditions):
So one, we could really hear from
teachers themselves
about their jobs,
about their
working conditions,
about their satisfaction.
Hierarchical, rigid education systems exacerbate this lack of professionalism by treating
teachers as a problem, by not seeking their input or voice on decisions that affect
teachers, and by dismissing concerns
about pay or
working conditions or safety.
While it's possible to believe
teachers are a «national treasure» but are wrong
about their
working conditions, too often the media storyline implies that union officials and the worst
teachers are the only ones objecting to charter - ization.
The corporate education reform industry, riding high off a successful anti-
teacher tenure lawsuit in California, is targeting the single most important element of academic freedom and
working conditions for public school
teachers and now the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with
teacher tenure is saying that his abusive language
about teachers «Wasn't
about them.
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 result was a set of self - focused goals all
about teacher schedules and
working conditions.
Principals were more positive
about working conditions in every area, particularly
about the amount of time
teachers have and how empowered they are to make decisions on education issues.
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.
Instead of looking to make teaching look more like medicine, we should consider how to make teaching look like teaching again, and that will begin by listening to what
teachers have to say
about their
working conditions.
Four decades of research by such familiar names as Boyer, DiMartino, DuFour, Fullan, Goodlad, Guskey, Marzano, Reeves, Schmoker, Sizer, Wiggins, and others tells us a lot
about how high school students learn,
about good teaching,
about effective leadership,
about positive school cultures, and
about the
working conditions under which
teachers are the most productive.
Principals in our sample spoke
about the effects of strong unions, focused primarily on
teachers «
working conditions, as obstacles to creating collaborative cultures and engaging
teachers in school - and district - wide decision making.
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.
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
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
conditions while providing education stakeholders and policymakers insights on how to improve school and classroom practices.
Rather than making a series of empty, unfilled promises, these policies would actually improve
teachers»
working conditions, students» learning
conditions, and school funding; would protect public schools from inequities of funding caused by the proliferation of charter schools; and would «encourage» the decision makers who currently establish public education policy to play within the rules, or forfeit the thing they are really most concerned
about: those sweet, sweet campaign contributions.
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Working to improve the working conditions and professional lives of English language teachers in Ireland through organisation and communi
Working to improve the
working conditions and professional lives of English language teachers in Ireland through organisation and communi
working conditions and professional lives of English language
teachers in Ireland through organisation and communication.
Efforts to improve the quality of early childhood programs without addressing
teachers» low wages and stressful
working conditions are unlikely to bring
about the long - term benefits and return on investment associated with high - quality programs.