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Teaching profession
This page lists the indicators used in the teachers’ dashboard for an attractive teaching job, which was developed in the context of the 2023 Education and Training Monitor’s comparative report. The indicator selection is based on a 2020 European Commission report. For the data visualisation tool, click here.
Teachers’ dashboard: 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?
Teachers’ dashboard: 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?
Teachers’ dashboard: 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.
Further reading
- European Commission 2023 Education and Training Monitor’s comparative report.
- European Commission 2020 report on supporting teacher and school leader careers (used as the conceptual framework behind the teachers’ dashboard indicator selection).
- European Commission/EACEA/Eurydice 2023 report on the teaching profession.
- European Commission (Joint Research Centre) 2023 reporton indicators for monitoring teacher shortage.
- EENEE-NESET 2023 analytical report on evidence-based solutions to teacher shortages.
Archived indicators
- Age, measuring the distribution of teachers at education level by age groups. UOE ADMINISTRATIVE DATA
- Sex, measuring the share of female teachers by education level. UOE ADMINISTRATIVE DATA
- Diversity. measuring the ratio between the share of teachers and the share of learners with migrant/minority background. ECORYS report
- ITE graduates, measuring the number of graduates from the initial teacher education programmes. UOE ADMINISTRATIVE DATA
- ICT graduates, measuring the number of graduates in ICT compared to graduates in the education field. UOE ADMINISTRATIVE DATA