This is especially true when you consider how public school teachers in the United States are negatively compared to
teachers in other countries who do not require every student to be educated.
Most teachers in other countries spend between 15 and 20 hours every week lesson planning and collaborating with colleagues, according to the Learning Forward report.
Through the exchange of e-mail, photos, and multimedia reports, and by participating in virtual field trips, they can communicate with students and
teachers in other countries.
The OECD has a report, Education at a Glance 2010, that provides a shockingly flawed comparison of the amount of time U.S. teachers work relative to
teachers in other countries.
If you add all of that up, teachers in the UK — compared to
teachers in other countries, not relative to workers with similar qualifications — come out better.»
«We hope that the Scottish Government and local authority employers, who have repeatedly spoken of the high value that they place on teachers, will commit to paying a fair salary — comparable to other professions and
teachers in other countries — to all teachers working in Scotland.»
U.S. teachers grade homework far more than
teachers in other countries, yet at least one study shows a negative correlation between grading homework and student achievement.
On average,
teachers in other countries are twice as likely to be evaluated by peers as U.S. teachers (OECD, 2014).