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The 55th Annual PDK Poll finds that a wide majority (66%) of adults say teachers should have a substantial say in what’s taught in public schools, more than say so about school boards, local residents, or lawmakers. Support for teachers also is apparent in another result from the 2023 PDK Poll: 67% of respondents support increasing local teacher salaries by raising property taxes. That result reflects the public’s broad sense that public school teachers are undervalued, underpaid, and overworked. At the same time, more than half of Americans support shifting to a four-day school week in their community, nearly twice as many as said so two decades ago. And structurally, beyond a four-day week, the poll finds that about six in 10 adults support other changes in how schools operate — longer school days and/or a longer school year — as ways to try to improve student learning outcomes. On another topic, results show widespread support for schools conducting mental health assessments of students. The survey was produced by Langer Research Associates for PDK International, with data collected June 16-25, 2023, in English and Spanish, among a representative, random national sample of 1,002 adults.

The COVID-19 pandemic forced K–12 school closures in spring 2020 to protect the well-being of society. The unplanned and unprecedented disruption to education changed the work of many teachers suddenly, and in many aspects. This case study examines the COVID-19 school closure-related changes to the professional life of a secondary school teacher in rural Alaska (United States), who had to teach his students online. A descriptive and explanatory single case study methodology was used to describe subsequent impacts on instructional practices and workload. Qualitative and quantitative data sources include participant observations, semi-structured interviews, artifacts (e.g., lesson plans, schedules, online time), and open-ended conversations. The results of this study demonstrate an increase and change in workload for the teacher and that online education can support learning for many students but needs to be carefully designed and individualized to not deepen inequality and social divides. The forced move to online learning may have been the catalyst to create a new, more effective hybrid model of educating students in the future. Not one single model for online learning will provide equitable educational opportunities for all and virtual learning cannot be seen as a cheap fix for the ongoing financial crisis in funding education.

School and residential segregation are well-documented phenomena in many contexts, but little is known about teachers’ professional choices in relation to segregation. This study focuses on the social contexts of teachers’ professional choices of workplace and the construction of teacher segregation, that is, the regionally uneven distribution of staff in different areas (urban vs rural; affluent vs disadvantaged). The professional choices of workplace of subject teachers are explored through the lens of life domains of residence and work. Semi-structured interviews with 24 subject teachers working in Finland were analysed using thematic analysis. The teachers’ choices of workplace were somewhat mediated by residential and school segregation but most strongly intertwined with the lack of provision of open (permanent) positions at the labour market. The teachers’ private lives (family life and privacy, relations to home region and salary) and residential choices were essentially influenced by the choice of workplace. At the core of the professional choices were the dynamic and locally formulated relations between the labour market, forms of school segregation and residential segregation, which as a combination may contribute to emerging teacher segregation.

Academic self-efficacy, academic amotivation, attitude toward the teaching profession, and classroom management anxiety are four of the most significant factors for both teacher training and performance because these psychological and behavioral constructs are first developed during the initial training, and reflect on the actual teaching quality of teachers. Therefore, investigation into their development and relationships, particularly with regard to prospective teachers, is significant both for the theory and practice of teaching. Hence, the current study aims to explore the casual relationships between these variables with a sample of prospective mathematics teachers, using the structural equation modelling (SEM). The participants were selected using simple random sampling method from prospective mathematics teachers studying at educational faculties of seven universities in different regions of Turkey. The data were collected using the academic amotivation scale, academic self-efficacy scale, attitude toward the teaching profession scale, classroom management anxiety scale, and a personal information form developed by the researchers. Data obtained from 581 participants were analyzed using path analysis. The findings showed that prospective mathematics teachers had a positive attitude toward the profession, and were eager to teach. Their academic self-efficacy predicted their attitude toward the teaching profession. Similarly, prospective mathematics teachers’ attitude toward the teaching profession correlated negatively with their academic amotivation. In other words, as prospective mathematics teachers’ attitude scores toward the profession increased, their academic amotivation scores decreased. However, prospective mathematics teachers had a high level of classroom management anxiety. Interestingly, prospective mathematics teachers with a positive attitude toward the profession experienced higher levels of classroom management anxiety. The findings mostly supported previous results in the literature. Implications were suggested both for teacher training and practice of quality teaching.

Despite the government’s initiatives to enact and implement the secondary education development policy, student performance trends in Tanzania remained challenging. However, the influence of student academic success on teaching professionalism is inadequately explored. This study employed a qualitative research approach to gain insights into how student performance shapes teacher identity, particularly during the implementation of the expansion policy. The research involved teachers and school principals who were purposively selected from four secondary schools in one of the regions located in the Southern Highlands of the country. Individual and focus group (FG) interviews were used to generate evidence about the study phenomenon. It was revealed that poor student performance had far-reaching negative implications for teachers’ professional image, perceived competence, and overall psychological well-being. Therefore, developing and implementing practices that promote student performance can make teaching a more appealing and respected profession.

The emergence of digital technologies and the implementation of digital governance in the educational system raise important challenges for teachers. In this scenario, this paper is intended to answer the following question: are digital governance reinventing teachers’ work? The study is based on a qualitative multi-case analysis in 4 schools in Spain, within the framework of a funded research project, carried out through interviews with teachers and students, discussion groups with families and participant observation in classrooms. The results suggest that the implementation of digital platforms and the logic of governance that accompanies them, are causing significant transformations in teachers’ work, reflected in four dimensions: the dissolution of teaching functions, the delegation of responsibilities, the fragmentation and intensification of tasks and the focus on productivity and goal attainment from a technical and deregulated perspective. La aparición de las tecnologías digitales y la implantación de la gobernanza digital en el sistema educativo plantean importantes retos al profesorado. En este escenario, este trabajo pretende responder a la siguiente pregunta: ¿está la gobernanza digital reinventando el trabajo de los docentes? El estudio se basa en un análisis cualitativo de casos múltiples en 4 centros educativos de España, en el marco de un proyecto de investigación financiado, realizado mediante entrevistas a profesores y alumnos, grupos de discusión con familias y observación participante en las aulas. Los resultados sugieren que la implantación de plataformas digitales y la lógica de gobernanza que las acompaña, están provocando transformaciones significativas en el trabajo docente, reflejadas en cuatro dimensiones: la disolución de las funciones docentes, la delegación de responsabilidades, la fragmentación e intensificación de tareas y la focalización en la productividad y consecución de objetivos desde una perspectiva técnica y desregulada.

This study aims to present a critical analysis of teacher malaise, suffering and sickness related to the history of the teaching work, the ways of acting in this occupation, and the culture of teaching. The methodology involved a narrative literature review of 12 selected publications to identify the main aspects attributed to epidemiological issues, naturalization of the problem in teaching, public policies, teaching work organization and professional identity. The discussion seeks to highlight the forms of visibility and invisibility of this issue in the social and educational scenario in Brazil, with a focus on teacher work and training and the culture of teaching based on insights of Maurice Tardif regarding the 'ages of teaching'. This study shows how teacher malaise, suffering and sickness can express collective narratives of teachers characterized by vocation and professional socialization through feminization - and how social, historical and cultural dimensions of teaching work can affect the collective ways to perceive and take care of the body and health, and cause sickness. Finally, it highlights the challenge to consider body/health/well-being in the culture of teaching as elements that support professional development and the professionalization of teaching profession.

Transferring current research findings on the topic of learning and memory to \"brain-based\" learning in schools is of great interest among teachers. However, numerous international studies demonstrate that both pre-service and in-service teachers do not always succeed. Instead, they transfer numerous misconceptions about neuroscience, known as neuromyths, into pedagogical practice. As a result, researchers call for more neuroscience in teacher education in order to create a professional understanding of learning and memory. German pre-service science teachers specializing in biology complete neuroscientific modules ( / ) during their studies because they are expected to teach these topics to their students. Thus, they are required to demonstrate a certain degree of neuroscience literacy. In the present study, 550 pre-service science teachers were surveyed on neuromyths and scientific concepts about learning and memory. Pre-service science teachers' scientific concepts increased over the course of their training. However, beliefs in neuromyths were independent of participants' status within teacher education (first-year students, advanced students, and post-graduate trainees). The results showed that 10 neuromyths were endorsed by more than 50% of prospective science teachers. Beliefs in the existence of learning styles (93%) and the effectiveness of Brain Gym (92%) were most widespread. Many myths were endorsed even though a large share of respondents had thematically similar scientific concepts; endorsement of neuromyths was found to be largely independent of professional knowledge as well as theory-based and biography-based learning beliefs about neuroscience and learning. Our results suggest that neuromyths can exist in parallel to scientific concepts, professional knowledge and beliefs and are resistant to formal education. From the perspective of conceptual change theory, they thus exhibit characteristic traits of misconceptions that cannot simply be counteracted with increased neuroscientific knowledge. On the basis of our study's findings, it can be concluded that new teacher programs considering neuromyths as change-resistant misconceptions are needed to professionalize pre-service science teachers' neuroscience literacy. For this, an intensive web of exchange between the education field and neuroscientists is required, not just to deploy the latest scientific insights to refute neuromyths on learning and memory, but also to identify further neuromyths.

This study examines between-country differences in the degree to which teachers' working conditions, salaries, and societal evaluations about desirable job characteristics are associated with students' teaching career expectations. Three-level hierarchical generalized linear models are employed to analyze cross-national data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). Results reveal that teacher salaries and societal evaluations about the importance of job responsibility and respect are positively associated with teaching career expectations, while working hours are negatively associated with teaching career expectations. Analyses further reveal that the association between salaries and career expectations and societal evaluations and career expectations differ among students with different mathematics skills. We conclude by discussing policy initiatives that can encourage students with strong quantitative abilities to consider a career in teaching.