Monitor toolbox by theme

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 among lower secondary teachers. Download dataGO TO OECD TALIS 2024

• Perceived autonomy – Share of lower secondary teachers who report that they have control over various aspects of their classroom teaching. Download dataGO TO OECD TALIS 2024

• Collegial leadership – Share of lower secondary teachers agreeing that school provides staff with opportunities to actively participate in school decisions. Download dataGO TO OECD TALIS 2024

• Societal appreciation – Lower secondary teachers' views of the way society values their profession. Download dataGO TO OECD TALIS 2024

• Competitive salary – Lower secondary teachers’ salary competitiveness relative to earnings for tertiary-educated workers in lower secondary education. Download dataGO TO OECD EDUCATION AT A GLANCE 2025

• Ownership over career progress – Are promotion, salary progression or allowances one of the objectives of appraisal? GO TO 2023 EURYDICE REPORT

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. Download dataGO TO 2021 EURYDICE REPORT

• Mentoring – Share of lower secondary novice teachers who have an assigned mentor at the current school. Download dataGO TO OECD TALIS 2024

• Competence frameworks – Existence and use of teacher competence frameworks in ITE by top-level authorities. Download dataGO TO 2018 EURYDICE REPORT

• Quality assurance in CPD – Accreditation of providers of professional development activities for lower and upper secondary education. Download data GO TO OECD EDUCATION AT A GLANCE 2022

• Identifying development needs – Is the determination of professional development needs and activities one of the objectives of appraisal? GO TO 2023 EURYDICE REPORT

• Identifying support needs – Is the determination of access to professional or personal support one of the objectives of appraisal? GO TO 2023 EURYDICE REPORT

Teachers’ dashboard: Opportunities

• Pathways to becoming a teacher – Apart from mainstream initial teacher training, are there other alternative pathways to obtain a teaching qualification? GO TO 2023 EURYDICE REPORT

• Stability – Share of lower secondary teachers with a permanent employment status. Download dataGO TO OECD TALIS 2024

• Career diversification – Existence of a multi-level career structure for fully qualified lower secondary education teachers. Download dataGO TO 2021 EURYDICE REPORT

• International mobility – Erasmus+ staff mobility. Download data

• Statutory starting salary – Annual gross statutory salaries of lower secondary teachers. GO TO EURYDICE REPORTING TOOL

• 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. GO TO EURYDICE REPORTING TOOL

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 report on 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.Eurostat (UOE joint data collection) [educ_uoe_perd01]

• Sex, measuring the share of female teachers by education level.Eurostat (UOE joint data collection) [educ_uoe_perd03]

• 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.Eurostat (UOE joint data collection) [educ_uoe_grad02]

• ICT graduates, measuring the number of graduates in ICT compared to graduates in the education field.Eurostat (UOE joint data collection) [educ_uoe_grad02]