2. Mean mathematics performance, by school location,
after accounting for socio-economic status
Fig II.3.3
22 TALIS in Brief
…representing more than 4 million teachers in over 30
countries…
Over 100 thousand randomly selected lower secondary
teachers and their school leaders from over 6500 schools
…took an internationally-agreed survey about the working
conditions and learning environments in their schools…
…responding to questions about their background, their teaching
practices, support and development, their relationships with
colleagues and students and the leadership in their schools
3. Overview of TALIS
The Learning Environment:
Characteristics of Teachers and Schools
The Importance of School
Leadership
Developing and
Supporting Teachers
Improving Teaching
Using Appraisal and
Feedback
Examining Teacher Practices and
Classroom Environment
Teacher Self-Efficacy and Job
Satisfaction: Why they Matter
5. Mean mathematics performance, by school location, after acc
ounting for socio-economic status
Fig II.3.3
55 Teachers' needs for professional development
Percentage of lower secondary teachers indicating they have a high level of need for professional development in the
following areas
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
Knowledge of the curriculum
Knowledge of the subject field(s)
School management and administration
Pedagogical competencies
Developing competencies for future work
Teaching cross-curricular skills
Student evaluation and assessment practice
Student career guidance and counselling
Approaches to individualised learning
Teaching in a multicultural or multilingual setting
Student behaviour and classroom management
New technologies in the workplace
ICT skills for teaching
Teaching students with special needs
Mexico Average
6. Mean mathematics performance, by school location, after acc
ounting for socio-economic status
Fig II.3.3
66 Barriers to professional development participation
Percentage of lower secondary teachers who "agree" or "strongly agree" that the following elements represent barriers
to their participation in professional development activities
0 20 40 60 80 100
Do not have the pre-requisites (e.g., qualifications, experience,
seniority)
There is a lack of employer support
Lack of time due to family responsibilities
There is no relevant professional development offered
Professional development is too expensive/unaffordable
There are no incentives for participating in such activities
Professional development conflicts with my work schedule
Mexico Average
7. Mean mathematics performance, by school location, after acc
ounting for socio-economic status
Fig II.3.3
77 Impact of professional development
…the professional development
in which they have participated
has had a positive impact on
their teaching.
Regardless of the
content, over 3/4 of
teachers report that…
9. 8%
13%
79%
12%
12%
76%
Administrative tasks
Keeping order in the
classroom
Actual teaching and
learning
Average proportion of time lower secondary teachers report spending on each of these activities in an average lesson
Distribution of class time9
Average
Mexico
10. Mean mathematics performance, by school location,
after accounting for socio-economic status
Fig II.3.3
1010 What teachers do beyond teaching
Average number of 60-minute hours teachers report spending on the following tasks in an average week
Finland Malaysia
Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates)Flanders (Belgium)
IsraelItaly Malaysia
JapanMalaysiaSweden
Finland Korea
Finland Malaysia
Finland Korea
Finland Malaysia PortugalSingapore
CroatiaFinland Japan
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Number of hours
School management
Communication with parents
All other tasks
Extracurricular activities
Student counselling
Team work
Administrative work
Marking
Planning
11. Mean mathematics performance, by school location, after acc
ounting for socio-economic status
Fig II.3.3
1111 Teaching practices
Percentage of lower secondary teachers who report using the following teaching practices "frequently" or "in all or nearly
all lessons"
0 20 40 60 80 100
Students work on projects that require at least one week to
complete
Students use ICT for projects or class work
Give different work to the students who have difficulties
learning and/or to those who can advance faster
Students work in small groups to come up with a joint
solution to a problem or task
Let students practice similar tasks until teacher knows that
every student has understood the subject matter
Refer to a problem from everyday life or work to demonstrate
why new knowledge is useful
Check students' exercise books or homework
Present a summary of recently learned content
Mexico Average
13. Mean mathematics performance, by school location,
after accounting for socio-economic status
Fig II.3.3
1313
Percentage of lower secondary teachers who "agree" or "strongly agree" with the following statements
84
90
91
89
94
98
0 20 40 60 80 100
I would recommend my school as a
good place to work
I enjoy working at this school
All in all, I am satisfied with my job
Mexico Average
Teachers' satisfaction with their working environment
15. Mean mathematics performance, by school location,
after accounting for socio-economic status
Fig II.3.3
1515
Countries where teachers believe their profession is valued
show higher levels of student achievement
Relationship between lower secondary teachers' views on the value of their profession in society and the country’s
share of top mathematics performers in PISA 2012
Australia
Brazil
Bulgaria
Chile
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
FinlandFrance
Iceland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Korea
Latvia
Mexico
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Serbia
Singapore
Slovak Republic
Spain
Sweden
Alberta (Canada)
England (UK)
Flanders (Belgium)
United States
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
Shareofmathematicstopperformers
Percentage of teachers who agree that teaching is valued in society
Shanghai (China)
R2 = 0.24 r= 0.49
16. Mean mathematics performance, by school location, after acc
ounting for socio-economic status
Fig II.3.3
1616
Behavioral issues equate to lower job satisfaction,
class size doesn’t
Teachers' job satisfaction level following the number of students in the classroom in relation to the percentage of
students with behavioural problems
0.0
2.0
4.0
6.0
8.0
10.0
12.0
14.0
15orless
16-20
21-25
26-30
31-35
36ormore
Teacherjobsatisfaction(level)
Class size (number of students)
0.0
2.0
4.0
6.0
8.0
10.0
12.0
14.0
None
1%to10%
11%to30%
31%ormore
Teacherjobsatisfaction(level)
Students with behavioural problems
17. Mean mathematics performance, by school location, after acc
ounting for socio-economic status
Fig II.3.3
Next round – TALIS 2018:
• 45+ systems confirmed, including in Latin
America:
– Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico
• Apart from the main survey, TALIS options:
– ISCED 1
– ISCED 3
– TALIS-PISA link
• Deadline for the final confirmation to join
TALIS 2018: JULY 2016
1717 TALIS 2018
18. Mean mathematics performance, by school location, after acc
ounting for socio-economic status
Fig II.3.3
• Teachers’ instructional practices and beliefs
• School leadership
• Teachers’ professional practices, including mobility issues
• Teacher education and initial preparation
• Teacher feedback and development (combining teacher
feedback and continuing professional development)
• School climate
• Job satisfaction
• Teacher human resource issues and stakeholder relations
• Teacher self-efficacy
• Equity and Diversity
• Innovation
1818 TALIS 2018 Themes – In Development
19. TALIS
is a partnership
between
Mean mathematics performance, by school location, after acc
ounting for socio-economic status
Fig II.3.3
1919 TALIS in Brief
an international
research
consortium
OECD
Governments
in 34 countries
European
Commission
Teachers’ unions
Find out more about TALIS at www.oecd.org/talis
• All national and international publications
• The complete micro-level database
Email: TALIS@OECD.org
Notas del editor
TALIS 2013 was the second round of TALIS, after the 2008 cycle.
The main focus is on lower secondary teachers, but TALIS 2013 introduced the options for countries to survey also their primary (6 countries) and upper secondary teachers (11 countries took this option).
These are the main themes of TALIS 2013, for time reasons this presentation will focus on some of them
TALIS looks at the importance of teacher professional development, mentoring, induction – an array of programmes that help teachers develop the skills they need to teach effectively and feel supported
Figure 4.14
TALIS recognises the importance of PD to teachers, given the ever-changing classrooms. When asked about the needs that teachers feel for PD - Teaching students with special needs, ICT skills for teaching and new technilogies in the workplace are among the most frequently reported areas with high needs for PD among teachers across all countries. In Mexico teaching in multicultural settting is also among the high needs.
Figure 4.15
In many cases participation in PD can be limited due to a number of obstacles teachers may experience. Conflicts with work schedule, lack of incentives or high costs are among the most frequently reported barriers. In order to overcome such barreirs teachers need support from the system’s and from their leaderships. In terms of the latter, the figure shows that particularly in Mexio lack of employer support is a big barrier to teachers’ participation in PD.
It is important to overcome these barriers because TALIS shows that teachers feel that PD positively impacts their teaching…
TALIS asks teachers a number of questions about their classroom practices and the environment and their teaching beliefs
Adapted from Figure 6.12
Not surprisingly most of teachers’ time in a given lesson goes to teaching, however TALIS shows that a lot of time is also spent on administrative tasks and keeping order in a classroom. For instance in Mexico it’s nearly a quarter of an average lesson – that is a lot of time, which is sacrificed that should be better spent on students’ learning.
Expended from Figure 6.7
Teachers’ job extends far beyond teaching. The figure shows the number of hours teachers spend on in an average week on: school management, communication with parents, extracurricular activities (e.g. in Japan it’s nearly 8 hours a week – equivalent to a working day in many countries), student counselling, team work, administrative tasks, marking, planning and all other tasks. The figure also shows that there is a lot difference between countries in terms of these activities.
Figure 6.2
The figure presents the percentage of teacher who report using these different teaching practices frequently or in nearly all lessons. It shows that in most countries, the more active teaching practices (small group work, using ICT, work on projects that require at least one week to complete) are used much less frequently than the more passive practices (e.g. presenting summary of recently learned content or checking students’ homework). The differences between the use of these practices in Mexico is small than the TALIS average.
Research suggests that different practices could be beneficial to students’ learning and active teaching can stimulate the development of students’ non-cognitive skills as well.
TALIS asks also asks teachers about their satisfaction with their job, their schools and their perception about the profession.
Figure 7.2
Teachers are generally very happy with their jobs, as shown in this figure. More than 80 % of teachers are:
Satisfied with their jobs
Enjoy working in their schools
Would recommend their schools as good places to work
Figure 7.3
As the figure shows only about one third of teachrs across TALIS countries see teaching as a professiona that is valued in society. This can potentially have implications for teacher retention and attracting good candidates to the professions. As the figure shows there are some differences across systems– e.g. more than 50% see teaching as a valued profession in Malaysia, Singapore, Korea and Abu Dabu (UAE), while less than 10 % in Spain, Sweden, France and Slovak Republic.
There is a positive association between teachers’ perceptions of the value of teaching profession in the society and country’s student achievement. This can see in positive associations with the share of top mathematics performers in PISA 2012 – as seen in this graph; also:
Positive association with average mathematics performance (the higher the percentage of teachers who believe that teaching is a valued, the higher the average in mathematics in PISA 2012) - R2 = 0.15 r= 0.38
Negative association with the share of low mathematics performers in PISA 2012 (the higher the percentage of teachers who believe that teaching is a valued, the fewer PISA low performers in a country)- R2 = 0.06 r= 0.23
Figure 7.6
The graph shows that on average across TALIS systems, teacher satisfaction is not affected by class size (as shown in the figure to the left) but is affected by classroom compsoition. E.g. the higher the percentage of students with behavioural problems in a class – the lower teacher’s job satisfaction.
In contrast: teacher collaboration and positive relationships between teachers and students and other teachers are some of the drivers of job satisfaction.
The next round of TALIS ( the third round) will take place in TALIS 2018.
We already know that there will be even more systems participating than in 2013 – over 45 countries or economies have confirmed so far, including several Latin American countries.
The main focus is on lower secondary (ISCED 2) teachers, as always. In addition, same as in TALIS 2013, we offer countries options to also join primary school (ISCED 1) TALIS, upper secondary (ISCED 3) TALIS, and TALIS-PISA link – whereby TALIS questionnaire will be delivered in the same schools as PISA 2018 in order to link student and teacher data on school level.
If countries are still interested in joining TALIS 2018 the deadline is end of July 2016.
These are the themes currently under development with the TALIS Questionnaire Expert Group. The main idea is to balance the need for policy-relevance by making sure that the themes will be relevant in the future, with the need for consistency in questions across surveys so that we can analyse trend data across the 3 cycles of TALIS.