Monitor Toolbox
Teaching profession
Attractiveness of the teaching profession
This page lists the indicators used in the teachers’ dashboard . The indicator allocation is inspired by a 2020 European Commission report.
Motivation
Actual teaching time – Average number of hours teaching as a share of total working time during the most recent complete calendar week.
Perceived autonomy – Share of teachers who report that they have control over various aspects of their classroom teaching.
Collegial leadership – Share of teachers agreeing that school provides staff with opportunities to actively participate in school decisions.
Societal appreciation – Teachers' views of the way society values their profession.
Competitive salary – Teacher salary competitiveness relative to earnings for tertiary-educated workers in lower secondary education.
Ownership over career progress – Are promotion, salary progression or allowances one of the objectives of appraisal?
Abilities
On-the-job training in ITE - Minimum length of professional training (including in-school placement) as a share of minimum duration of ITE for lower secondary education.
Mentoring – Share of novice teachers who have an assigned mentor at the current school.
Competence frameworks – Existence and use of teacher competence frameworks in ITE by top-level authorities.
Quality assurance in CPD – Accreditation of providers of professional development activities for lower and upper secondary education.
Identifying development needs – Is the determination of professional development needs and activities one of the objectives of appraisal?
Identifying support needs – Is the determination of access to professional or personal support one of the objectives of appraisal?
Opportunities
Pathways to becoming a teacher – Apart from mainstream initial teacher training, are there other alternative pathways to obtain a teaching qualification?
Stability – Share of teachers with a permanent employment status.
Career diversification – Existence of a multi-level career structure for fully qualified lower secondary education teachers.
International mobility – Erasmus+ staff mobility.
Statutory starting salary – Annual gross statutory salaries of lower secondary teachers.
Progressive pay range - Difference between the statutory starting salaries of lower secondary teachers, their salaries after 10-15 years of service, and at the top of the pay range.