Friday, November 7, 2008

How Teachers Can Be Happier

Teachers aren't very happy these days. This is partly due to some changes in the nature of the work, and—if it's any comfort—also partly due to the fact that everyone's less happy. For teachers in particular, there are many aspects of the profession that have grown more hard to take. I find on the web a survey from the NEA describing positive and negative aspects of the work over the last forty years. In the 1960s, factors like "positive attitude of pupils and parents" and "pupil progress and ability" had a significant impact on job satisfaction. After the 60s, those factors just disappear from the survey. In the most recent year of the survey, difficulties with administrators was a bigger source of job dissatisfaction than difficulties with students.

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