Spring 2017 marked the second year that our Teacher Advisory Group used the Gallup employee engagement survey to evaluate Oakland public
school teacher satisfaction.
Public -
school teacher satisfaction has dropped significantly over the last two years, according to a national survey of hundreds of teachers released today by the insurance giant MetLife.
Not exact matches
I am often asked what I do, and when I reply with a great deal of
satisfaction that I'm a
teacher, the most common remark is «I don't know how you can manage; when I was at
school I used to cause all sorts of trouble.»
Teachers in middle and junior high
schools may differ as well, both in their knowledge of whole child development and their experience of professional support and
satisfaction.
Once again, the answers will vary, but most
teachers will say they experience great
satisfaction at
school when a student achieves or learns successfully.
The highest level of
satisfaction with regard to improvements was among
teachers at city technology colleges, with 67 % saying works had been carried out and their environment had improved, while on average a third of
schools had not seen any works carried out in the past year.
If we take that definition seriously, then other indicators that districts might chose to use to hold
schools accountable (such as attendance, student and
teacher satisfaction, or community engagement) should rise accordingly.
Effective professional development is often seen as vital to
school success and
teacher satisfaction, but it has also been criticized for its cost, often vaguely determined goals, and for the lack of data on resulting
teacher and
school improvement that characterizes many efforts.
This approach to professional development can create inconsistencies across programs and
schools and can therefore affect
teacher quality, student and parent
satisfaction, and learning outcomes.
Charter parents also vary more in their
satisfaction with
teacher quality than do district -
school parents.
On most matters, charters and district
schools are equally varied, but we do see greater variation within the charter sector in parents»
satisfaction with
school location and
teacher quality.
Equally important are
school / university partnerships and the coming together of like - minded researchers and classroom
teachers who recognize the fertile opportunity to research, measure, and disseminate findings in Mind, Brain, and Education Science to enhance
teacher quality, student achievement, and professional
satisfaction.
This may reflect a parental preference for their children to enjoy
school, or it might reflect parental preferences for
teachers who emphasize academic facets that increase student
satisfaction but are not captured by standardized test scores, such as critical thinking or curiosity.
Next, we change one characteristic of either the parent or
school and calculate how this change would affect the percent of parents who would choose the high -
satisfaction teacher.
There will be many opportunities with vouchers, and
teachers will get a great deal more
satisfaction out of teaching in a
school that is serving their customers than in serving the bureaucrats who run our government
schools now.
Parents in high - poverty
schools strongly value a
teacher's ability to raise student achievement and appear indifferent to student
satisfaction.
Because academic resources are relatively scarce in higher - poverty
schools (e.g., there are more disruptive peers, lower academic expectations, fewer financial resources, and less - competent
teachers), parents in these
schools seek
teachers skilled at improving achievement even if this comes at the cost of student
satisfaction.
On the other hand, in higher - income
schools these parents seem to respond to the relative abundance of academic resources by seeking out
teachers who also increase student
satisfaction.
The results presented above suggest that parents in low - income
schools strongly value student achievement and are essentially indifferent to a
teacher's ability to promote student
satisfaction.
Among students who had fun with their family most days, the likelihood of being in the group with higher life
satisfaction was much greater if students also reported that a
teacher or another adult at their
school believed that they would be a success.
«The profiles illustrate that adolescents who see
schools as a place where they like to go, feel free from bullying and with
teachers who believe that students can be a success, report higher life
satisfaction,» the report notes.
In a
school where 80 percent of the children are eligible for free or reduced - price lunch, the parents of the average child would have a 48 percent chance of selecting the
teacher with a high -
satisfaction and average achievement rating over the
teacher with average ratings on both
satisfaction and achievement.
It will be impossible to explain to the
satisfaction of educators why two
schools (or
teachers) with similar achievement gains nonetheless received different ratings of their effectiveness.
It's an interesting phenomenon that today
teachers in private
schools are paid less than
teachers in government
schools, but express greater
satisfaction with their jobs.
I construct two measures of
school quality — student perceptions of
teacher practices and parent
satisfaction — using data from the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (LSYPE), a major survey supported by the Department for Education.
Happiness is predicted by students»
satisfaction with
school culture and relationships with
teachers and peers.
Parents are asked about their
satisfaction with the interest
teachers show in the child,
school discipline, child's
school progress, and feedback from
teachers.
Happier students tend to report positive relations with their
teachers and students in «happy»
schools (
schools where students» life
satisfaction is above the average in the country) report much higher levels of support from their
teacher than students in «unhappy»
schools.
PISA (the Programme for International Student Assessment) is best known for its data on learning outcomes, but it also studies students»
satisfaction with life, their relationships with peers,
teachers and parents and how they spend their time outside of
school.
In short, this analysis confirms that inspection ratings can help detect differences in
teacher practice and parental
satisfaction among
schools with similar test - score rankings and socioeconomic composition.
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)».
And reported
teacher satisfaction at the
school was sky high.
Here, Chris Smith, head of Target Tracker at EES for
Schools, discusses how schools can help their teachers to manage their time and reduce their workload, in turn, boostingtheir job satisf
Schools, discusses how
schools can help their teachers to manage their time and reduce their workload, in turn, boostingtheir job satisf
schools can help their
teachers to manage their time and reduce their workload, in turn, boostingtheir job
satisfaction.
It also found that
teachers» perceptions of whether their opinions are factored into
school - level decisions appear to be related to job
satisfaction.
Predictors of eLearning
satisfaction in teaching and learning for
school teachers: a literature review.
[7] Parental involvement in
school, and positive parent -
teacher interactions, have also been found to positively affect
teachers» self - perception and job
satisfaction.
School leaders who foster collaboration among novice and veteran
teachers can improve
teacher retention and
teacher satisfaction, according to studies conducted by Susan Kardos and Susan Moore Johnson.
At the Beacon
School in Manhattan, the
teachers and administrators thought they had resolved, at least to their
satisfaction, the long national debate over how best to assess students» work.
This paper uses a nationally representative
school and
teacher survey from Indonesia to jointly investigate the determinants of a
teacher's
satisfaction level and its impacts on performance.
Private
school teachers express more
satisfaction with their working conditions, although
teacher attrition is higher in private
schools.
According to the new report, prepared by the National Center for Education Statistics, about 80 percent of the private -
school teachers studied expressed
satisfaction with their
school administration and professional...
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Schools and districts, in developing and refining the professional development system, shall also review and monitor
school discipline data;
school environment surveys; assessments of parental
satisfaction; performance appraisal data of
teachers, managers, and administrative personnel; and other performance indicators to identify
school and student needs that can be met by improved professional performance.
They also found that when classroom
teachers partnered with teaching artists and arts specialists to deliver arts - integrated instruction it had positive effects on
teachers» instructional practice and
satisfaction in the teaching profession; strengthened the connection of the
school to its surrounding community; and enhanced the role that arts specialists played in the larger
school community.