Key Data on Teachers and School Leaders in Europe

European Commission/Eacea/Eurydice 2013

Description

2013 Edition
The need to ensure high quality teaching has become one of the key objectives of the Strategic Framework for Education and Training (‘ET 2020’). The framework underlines the importance to provide adequate initial teacher education, continuous professional development for teachers, and to make teaching an attractive career-choice. It is therefore important to collect and analyse reliable
information on the state of play of this profession in European countries.
This first edition of Key Data on Teachers and School Leaders in Europe contains 62 indicators. It belongs to the Key Data series, the aim of which is to combine statistical data and qualitative information on European education systems.
The Eurydice Network has a long-standing tradition of collecting information related to teachers within the framework of Key Data on Education (general volume) as well as for thematic studies usually containing a separate chapter or section on teachers.

Sujets

• Éducation
• Educate for Life
• Education Review
• Union européenne
• Teachers
• School
• Data
• Figure
• Report
• Education

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• Publié par: Fil-Education
• Publié le: 25 juin 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 58
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 11 Mo

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Key Data on
Teachers and School Leaders
in Europe



2013 Edition







Eurydice Report
Education
and Training




This document is published by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency
(EACEA, Eurydice and Policy Support).


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European Commission/EACEA/Eurydice, 2013. Key Data on Teachers and School Leaders in e. 2013 Edition. Eurydice Report. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.



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doi:10.2797/91785

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FOREWORD
The need to ensure high quality teaching has become one of
the key objectives of the Strategic Framework for Education
and Training ( ΈΤ 2020'). The framework underlines the
importance to provide adequate initial teacher education,
continuous professional development for teachers and trainers,
and to make teaching an attractive career-choice.
The Council conclusions of March 2013 on investing in
education and training for supporting the Europe 2020
1Strategy ( ) emphasizes further the focus on revising and
strengthening the professional profile of the teaching
profession by, for example, ensuring effective initial teacher
education, by providing coherent and adequately resourced systems for recruitment selection, initial
teacher education, early career support and competence-based continuing professional development
of teaching staff.
In this policy context, I am very pleased to present the first edition of the Eurydice publication Key
Data on Teachers and School Leaders in Europe, which gives an exhaustive picture of data relating to
the teaching professions in 32 European countries covering 62 indicators. It examines important
aspects of initial and continuing teacher education including its organisational features and teachers'
and school heads' employment and working conditions.
Key Data on Teachers and School Leaders in Europe makes a valuable contribution to the debate on
recruitment, professional development and working conditions of teachers and school leaders at both
European and national level. Based on data collected through the Eurydice network, Eurostat, the
TALIS, TIMSS and PISA international surveys, the report provides standardised and readily
comparable quantitative and qualitative indicators which offer a wide-ranging overview of key issues
related to the teaching profession in Europe.
I recommend Key Data on Teachers and School Leaders in Europe to all practitioners and
policymakers working in this field. I am confident that the publication will be of great use to those
responsible for designing policies on the teaching profession across European countries.



Androulla Vassiliou
Commissioner responsible for
Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth

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CONTENTS

Foreword 3
Table of Figures 7
Introduction 11
Main Findings 15
Codes, Abbreviations and Acronyms 22

Chapter A: Initial Teacher Education and Support for Beginning Teachers 23
Chapter B: Recruitment, Employers and Contracts 43
Chapter C: Continuing Professional Development and Mobility 57
Chapter D: Working Conditions and Pay 69
Chapter E: Levels of Autonomy and Responsibilities of Teachers 103
Chapter F: School Leaders 111

Glossary, Statistical Databases and Bibliography 129
Acknowledgements 137


5 TABLE OF FIGURES
Figure A1: Structure of initial teacher education for pre-primary,
primary and general (lower and upper) secondary education (ISCED 0, 1, 2 and 3), 2011/12 24
Figure A2a: Level and minimum length of initial teacher education of pre-primary and primary teachers,
and the minimum proportion of time spent on professional training, 2011/12 26
Figure A2b: Level and minimum length of initial teacher education of general (lower and upper) secondary teachers, iing, 2011/12 28
Figure A3: Minimum length of in-school placement during initial education of pre-primary, primary and
general (lower and upper) secondary teachers (ISCED 0, 1, 2 and 3) in hours, 2011/12 29
Figure A4: Guidelines on the training of prospective teachers for
pre-primary, primary and general (lower and upper secondary education) (ISCED 0, 1, 2 and 3)
in educational research knowledge and practice, 2011/12 30
Figure A5: Selection methods/criteria for access to initial teacher education. Pre-primary,
primary and general (lower and upper secondary) education (ISCED 0, 1, 2 and 3), 2011/12 32
Figure A6: Alternative pathways into teaching. Pre-primary, primary and
general (lower and upper) secondary education (ISCED 0, 1, 2 and 3), 2011/12 34
Figure A7: Existence of some form of framework of competences for teachers working at pre-primary,
primary and general (lower and upper) secondary education (ISCED 0, 1, 2 and 3), 2011/12 36
Figure A8: Qualification requirements for teacher educators, preparing teachers for pre-primary, pper) secondary 37
Figure A9: Bodies responsible for external quality assurance of initial teacher education for pre-primary,
primary and general (lower and upper) secondary 38
Figure A10: National induction programmes for beginning teachers at pre-primary, pper) secondary education (ISCED 0, 1, 2 and 3), 2011/12 40
Figure A11: Types of support available to new entrants to the teaching profession in pre-primary,
primary and general (lower and upper) secondary 41
Figure B1: Measures for monitoring the balance in teacher supply and demand in pre-primary, pper) secondary 43
Figure B2: Proportion of fourth grade students attending a school where the school head reported the extent to
which his/her school's capacity to provide instruction is affected by a shortage or inadequacy of
teachers in mathematics and science, 2011 45
Figure B3: Principal types of teacher recruitment methods in pre-primary,
primary and general (lower and upper) secondary education (ISCED 0, 1, 2 and 3), 2011/12 47
Figure B4: Administrative level/body with responsibility for employing teachers in pre-primary, pper) secondary 48
Figure B5: Types of employment status available to teachers in pre-primary,
primary and general (lower and upper) secondary 50
Figure B6: Length of probationary period (in months) for teachers entering the profession in pre-primary, pper) secondary education (ISCED 0, 1, 2 and 3), 2011/12 51
Figure B7: Regulations concerning fixed- or short-term teaching contracts in
primary and general (lower and upper) secondary education (ISCED 1, 2 and 3), 2011/12 52

7 Key Data on Teachers and School Leaders in Europe – 2013
Figure B8: Employment status of teachers at ISCED 2, 2008 53
Figure B9: Proportion of ISCED 2 teachers with more than 10 years’ teaching experience on fixed-term contracts,
2008 54
Figure B10: Length of employment in the same school for teachers teaching at ISCED 2, 2008 55
Figure B11: Percentage of ISCED 2 teachers who agree or strongly agree
that in their school teachers would be dismissed because of sustained poor performance, 2008 56
Figure C1: Status of continuing professional development for teachers in pre-primary,
primary and general (lower and upper) secondary education (ISCED 0, 1, 2 and 3), 2011/12 57
Figure C2: Status of the CPD plan at school level for teachers in pre-primary, pper) secondary 58
Figure C3: Decision-making levels defining the development needs/training plan for CPD of teachers in pre-
primary, primary and general (lower and upper) secondary education (ISCED 0, 1, 2 and 3), 2011/12 59
Figure C4: Incentives to encourage teachers in pre-primary, primary and
general (lower and upper) secondary education (ISCED 0, 1, 2 and 3) to participate in CPD, 2011/12 61
Figure C5: Financial support to help teachers access CPD in pre-primary,
primary and general (lower and upper) secondary education (ISCED 0, 1, 2 and 3), 2011/12 63
Figure C6: Bodies responsible for the accreditation and/or monitoring of the quality of teachers’ CPD in pre-
primary, primary and