NEW YORK, March 24, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/
-- American Teachers Really Like Their Jobs
Unlike government, school leadership while government is seen as
unsupportive
- American teachers generally report strong job satisfaction as
56% report liking their jobs a great deal and over 90% liking it a
good amount.
- Women, older teachers, and urban teachers like being teachers
somewhat more than their male, younger, and rural
counterparts.
- On balance more teachers like their job more now than they did
three years ago. Teachers in affluent areas are more apt to like
teaching more than they did three years ago.
- After their families who are generally seen to provide
overwhelming support, teachers feel most supported by their
administration in the form of their principal, vice-principals, and
department leaders in addition to their students.
- Government at every level is seen as providing weak support by
an overwhelming number of teachers as fewer than 3 in 10 see
federal, state and local government as providing excellent or very
good support.
- Parents lag behind administrators in providing support, but are
not as bad as the various levels of government.
Teachers Follow University Admissions Scandal Closely
The Scandal Surprises Few Teachers
- 3 in 5 Teachers Say At Least Some Parents in Their District
Would Go to Such Lengths
- The university admissions scandal is being followed closely by
most teachers. Over 1 in 3 (35%) have heard a great deal about it,
while only 16% have heard not very much or nothing at all about
it.
- Older teachers are more likely to have heard a great deal about
the scandal than younger ones, while teachers teaching in affluent
areas are less likely to have heard a great deal or good amount
about it.
The majority of US school shootings are perpetrated by members
of the school community**. Still most K-12 teachers believe threats
come from outsiders..
** Naval Postgraduate School's
Center for Homeland Defense K-12 schools shooting database
- Most teachers (62%) see outsiders as a bigger safety threat
than members of the school community.
- A majority of teachers (56%) have a minor police presence at
their school.
- Over 7 in 10 teachers think it is appropriate for police to be
armed with guns at school. Private school teachers were somewhat
less likely to welcome armed police including support for 2 in 3
teachers who identify as Democrats. Support for armed police is
lower at private schools.
- In contrast to armed police, only roughly 1 in 4 (26%) teachers
think it's appropriate for some well-trained teachers to carry guns
at school. This issue divides across typical political and regional
lines with Republicans and rural teachers more apt to support such
a policy.
"Sadly, 3 in 4 teachers report their schools participate in
active shooter drills in the aftermath of such school shootings in
Columbine, CO and Parkland, FL,"
cites Andrew Ribner Chief Research
Officer, OvationMR
Teachers Are Most Concerned About Funding/Budget Cuts, Poverty
& Standardized Testing
The top concerns that teachers have about their current
situation are funding/budget cuts, standardized testing, poverty
and bullying.
- Nearly 4 in 5 teachers (79%) think that parents need to become
more actively involved in their children's education as more
teachers disagree (44%) than agree (38%) that students arrive in
their classroom academically prepared for their grade
level.
- 62% agree students should be more aggressively grouped to
classes by their academic abilities.
- 3 in 5 (60%) say that all students should be prepared to go to
college.
- Teachers are divided on whether students have too much
homework. 33% agree and 37% disagree.
- Teachers say both administrators and teachers need to do more
to protect students from violence. 62% of teachers agree that
administrators need to do more and 49% say they need to do more to
protect students from violence.
For the complete research report with tables and charts please
find it here:
https://www.ovationmr.com/teachers-online-research-report/
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SOURCE OvationMR