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Costrell, Robert M. – Educational Researcher, 2023
How are teacher pension benefits funded? Under traditional plans, the full cost of career teachers' benefits far exceeds the contributions designated for them. The gap between the two has three pieces, which may (with some license) be mnemonically tagged the three R's of pension funding: "redistribution," "return," and…
Descriptors: Risk, Retirement Benefits, Teaching (Occupation), Costs
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Aguilar-Mediavilla, Eva; Salvà-Mut, Francisca; Imbernon, Francesc; Oliver-Trobat, Miquel F. – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2023
This paper analyses, using a cross-sectional design, the relationship between academic qualifications during the initial training of primary school teachers and their professional development. Among all graduates of 13 promotions, from year 2004 to 2016, we selected the 15% of those students with the best qualifications and the 15% with the worst…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Qualifications, Teacher Education Programs, Case Studies
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Yelpaze, Ismail; Yakar, Levent – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2020
The aim of this study is to conduct a meta-analysis of studies comparing teacher training programs in terms of attitude towards teaching profession and perception of teacher self-efficacy. For this purpose, the results of the study comparing the faculty of education (FE) and other teacher training programs/faculties were searched and recorded…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Comparative Analysis, Student Attitudes, Teaching (Occupation)
Brian Cartiff; Svetlana Dmitrieva; Angela Starrett – SC TEACHER, 2024
SC TEACHER's research mission includes publishing yearly reports that detail the South Carolina educator workforce, sharing insights with educators themselves, policymakers, community members, and other stakeholders. This report is an annual review of the state's public school teacher workforce. Analysis in this study uses statewide data from…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Characteristics, Demography
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Jackson, Nykela; Wake, Donna – Research Issues in Contemporary Education, 2022
This study investigated the impact of a Grow-Your-Own (GYO) program on high school students' interests in teaching. Participants included 173 GYO students in a concurrent enrollment introductory education course. To explore the GYO's impact, survey results were compared to a sample of 297 traditional college students in a parallel curriculum. A…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Interests, Vocational Interests, Teaching (Occupation)
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Sarid, Ariel; Haj-Yehia, Kussai; Shaham, Hait; Rigbi, Amihai – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2022
The purpose of this paper is to explore the kinds of motivation driving Arab and Jewish students in Israel to choose teaching as a career. This study addressed several issues that have been largely overlooked in previous research such as the focus on Content Value motives (the motivation to teach specific subjects) as well as linking demographic…
Descriptors: Jews, Arabs, Student Motivation, Teaching (Occupation)
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Rickels, David A.; Hoffman, Edward C., III; Fredrickson, William E. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2019
The purpose of this study was to compare motivations and influences of high school music students who express an interest in a career in music teaching and those who do not. A previous survey was adapted for the study and administered to a pre-college population that included musicians who stated a preference to pursue music teaching or other…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Music, Music Teachers, Music Education
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Farrukh, Irshad Ahmad; Shakoor, Uzma – Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2018
The process of education is shaped and made by the teachers who play a pivotal role in web of educational system. Teaching characteristically is a moral enterprise and its function is aimed at guiding and working desirable growth in others. The need to know more about teacher and teaching stems not only from the commonness of the phenomenon, but…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Teacher Attitudes, Gender Differences, Teaching (Occupation)
Woodley, Arto – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Boyer (1996) noted that, just as the responsibilities of American higher education were expanding after World War II, the definition of scholarship began to narrow to focusing on the production of certain kinds of research and publications. He added that many faculty members are attracted to the professoriate because of their passion for teaching…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Private Colleges, College Faculty, Higher Education
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Isgör, Isa Yücel; Haspolat, Namik Kemal – International Education Studies, 2016
The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between job satisfaction and psychological well-being levels of different occupational employees (education, security, health, justice, worker, engineer, and religious official) carrying on their duties in different institutions and organizations in a mid-scale provincial center of…
Descriptors: Well Being, Job Satisfaction, Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals)
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Cavioni, Valeria; Grazzani, Ilaria; Ornaghi, Veronica; Agliati, Alessia; Gandellini, Sabina; Cefai, Carmel; Camilleri, Liberato; Bartolo, Paul; Tatalovic Vorkapic, Sanja; Golob, Lana; Poulou, Maria; Martinsone, Baiba; Supe, Inga; Simões, Celeste; Lebre, Paula; Colomeischi, Adina; Rusu, Petruta; Acostoaie, Lidia; Vintur, Tatiana; Conte, Elisabetta – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2023
In the last two years, a growing number of studies have focused on the promotion of students' mental health to address the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, less studies have been conducted on sustaining teachers' mental health which has been affected by the sudden changes in online teaching and the difficulties in keeping and…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Health Promotion, Teacher Student Relationship, Stress Variables
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Lillejord, Sølvi; Børte, Kristin – Journal of Educational Change, 2020
The article reanalyzes findings from a systematic review on the work situation and training needs of middle leaders in schools. Following an update search, 37 articles were analyzed and consistently reveal that middle leaders have trivial jobs that do not build their competence. Researchers conclude that they instead should be instructional…
Descriptors: Middle Management, Accountability, Instructional Leadership, Feedback (Response)
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Sivaci, Sadik Yuksel – Journal of Education and Learning, 2017
In this study, the relationship between attitudes of pedagogical formation program pre-service teachers towards teaching profession and their self-efficacies has been examined. In this case, the effect of graduation branches of the pre-service teachers on teacher self-efficacies and the effect of teacher self-efficacies on attitudes towards…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Preservice Teachers, Foreign Countries
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Goldfarb, Yael – Journal of Career Development, 2018
Motives behind occupational choice of graduates in two tertiary training programs for Israeli ultraorthodox (Haredi) women, practical engineering (PE) and teaching (T), are explored. Five hundred and twelve participants (278 PEs and 234 Ts) answered a questionnaire referring to 13 potential work motives. The main findings are as follows: (a)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Choice, Jews, Religious Cultural Groups
Perda, David – ProQuest LLC, 2013
There is widespread agreement among researchers and educators that teachers contribute to student learning (Darling-Hammond, 2002; Darling-Hammond; 2005; Ferguson, 1998; Goldhaber, 2003; Palardy and Rumberger, 2008; Rivkin, Hanushek, and Kain, 2005; Wright, Horn, and Sanders, 1997). In the face of teacher shortages and turnover, especially in hard…
Descriptors: Faculty Mobility, Beginning Teachers, Longitudinal Studies, College Graduates
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