The latest exercise in mythmaking is a Time article titled, «Teachers Make Less Than Peers in Almost Any Other Job,» which draws on
an international survey of teacher pay published by the OECD.
Not exact matches
Nearly half
of teachers working in British
international schools say their move was influenced by «dissatisfaction» with the education system at home, new
survey findings reveal.
The 2013 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Teaching and Learning
International Survey (TALIS) explored
teachers» experiences
of professional learning.
On average,
teachers in the city
of 23 million people spend around a third
of their time teaching in class — 14 hours per week compared with the Teaching and Learning
International Survey (TALIS) average
of 19.3 hours per week.
This is reinforced by the results
of the Teaching and Learning
International Survey (TALIS) which show that, in countries where
teachers believe their profession is valued, there are higher levels
of student achievement.
Arnup and Bowles also highlight data from the OECD's Teaching and Learning
International Survey (TALIS)-- focusing on lower secondary school
teachers and their principals — suggesting «the majority
of teachers are satisfied with their jobs, but teaching classrooms with a high proportion
of challenging students is associated with lower levels
of job satisfaction (OECD, 2014)».
The OECD Teaching and Learning
International Survey (TALIS) 2013 asked lower secondary education
teachers about the distribution
of class time during the average lesson.
As part
of an
international study collating results from
surveys covering 3,328 primary and secondary
teachers in the UK, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Brazil, the US and Australia, the report shows that the 11 hours is considerably more than those in the US (nine per cent) and Australia (seven per cent) where the time spent on teaching is typically higher.
While Poland has The
Teachers» Charter, which guarantees special status to the teaching profession, a lower - than - average proportion
of educators consider that the «teaching profession is valued in society», when compared to other countries participating in the OECD Teaching and Learning
International Survey (TALIS).
These analysts took advantage
of the fact that the 2003 Trends in
International Mathematics and Science
Survey (TIMSS) not only tested a nationally representative sample
of U.S. 8th graders in math and science, but also asked their
teachers what percentage
of class time was taken up by students «listening to lecture - style presentations» rather than either «working on problems with the
teacher's guidance» or «working on problems without guidance.»
The Scholarship Informing the Practice: Multicultural
Teacher Education Philosophy and Practice in the U.S. (2010): an analysis
of data from the Social Justice and Multicultural
Teacher Educators Resource
Survey, published by the
International Journal
of Multicultural Education
The Teaching and Learning
International Survey (TALIS), administered by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), ranked Brazilian
teachers last out
of 23 countries on the effective use
of classroom time, below Mexico.
«Making Connections: Teaching Preservice
Teachers to Teach Online» will feature Kathryn Kennedy, director
of research at the
International Association for K - 12 Online Learning, and Leanna Archambault, assistant professor at Arizona State University, who coauthored the 2012 study Offering Preservice
Teachers Field Experiences in K - 12 Online Learning: A National
Survey of Teacher Education Programs.
New
international data from the PIAAC
survey of adult skills allow for the first time to quantify
teacher skills in numeracy and literacy, providing country - level measures
of teacher subject knowledge.
With the help
of domestic and
international teacher education experts, National Council on Teacher Quality takes an in - depth look at admission standards, course syllabi, textbooks, course requirements, student teaching manuals, and graduate surveys, among other sources to score various elementary and secondary teaching c
teacher education experts, National Council on
Teacher Quality takes an in - depth look at admission standards, course syllabi, textbooks, course requirements, student teaching manuals, and graduate surveys, among other sources to score various elementary and secondary teaching c
Teacher Quality takes an in - depth look at admission standards, course syllabi, textbooks, course requirements, student teaching manuals, and graduate
surveys, among other sources to score various elementary and secondary teaching courses.
Indeed, last year, an
International School Consultancy survey found that the number of teachers leaving the United Kingdom to teach in English language international schools (18,000) was higher than the number who qualified as teachers through the traditional post-graduate training route (17,000
International School Consultancy
survey found that the number
of teachers leaving the United Kingdom to teach in English language
international schools (18,000) was higher than the number who qualified as teachers through the traditional post-graduate training route (17,000
international schools (18,000) was higher than the number who qualified as
teachers through the traditional post-graduate training route (17,000) in England.
Comparative results from the first Teaching and Learning
International Survey (TALIS) show that education systems can best support
teachers by shifting public and governmental concern away from the mere control over the resources and content
of education toward a focus on outcomes, by moving from hit - and - miss policies to targeted interventions, and by moving from a bureaucratic approach to education to devolving responsibilities and effective school leadership that supports
teachers through targeted professional development, appraisal, and feedback.
In its
international survey on
teacher beliefs, the OECD reports that UK
teachers believe that their role is to enable their pupils to be ingenious — to think
of solutions to practical problems themselves and to promote their students thinking and reasoning processes.
Conversely, the
survey found England's
teachers near the bottom
of the
international table for continuing professional development.
The results
of the Teaching and Learning
International Survey (TALIS), released last week by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), offer a stunning picture
of the challenges experienced by American
teachers, while providing provocative insights into what we might do to foster better teaching — and learning — in the United States.
The Education Week Research Center
surveyed approximately 700
teachers on their use
of technology and released an analysis
of the
survey results at the annual conference
of the
International Society for Technology in Education this week.