Sentences with phrase «lack of teacher autonomy»

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I have personally experienced the demands of being a teacher and observed colleagues also deal with the stressors of the job, ranging from high - stakes testing, demanding parents, increased paperwork, disrespectful students, increased diversity and differentiated learning needs, and lack of creativity and autonomy.

In surveys, those teachers cite lack of autonomy and input into school decisions, common complaints in struggling schools that have been placed under prescriptive «turnaround» models, he said.

In fact, this lack of classroom autonomy is now the biggest source of frustration for math teachers nationally.

Center for Teaching Quality CEO Barnett Berry tackles a report that describes teachers» dissatisfaction with lack of autonomy in their work.

According to the report, poor working conditions, including a lack of instructional autonomy and faculty input in making decisions at schools are two of the largest factors that contribute to minority teachers leaving.

Keep in mind, this lamentation of the lack of «honor» given to teaching as a profession comes from someone who has repeatedly taken the standard reformer line that all of the ills in our education system can be traced back almost entirely to teachers themselves and who has advocated for policy makers who diminish teachers» workplace protections and their autonomy and who want to tie opportunities for greater compensation to standardized test scores.

The leading scholar on teacher retention, Richard Ingersoll, has amassed a mountain of research that comes down to this conclusion: Teachers — including in high - demand specialties such as math, science, and technology — are leaving not merely because the economic rewards are greater in the private sector, but because they lack the autonomy to engage their students in a creative manner (Walker, 2015).

According to the Shanker Institute report, attrition is «the most significant impediment to increasing the diversity of the teacher workforce,» with minority teachers» strongest complaints related not to being concentrated in urban schools serving high poverty, high - need communities, but because of «a lack of collective voice in educational decisions and a lack of professional autonomy in the classroom.»