Na de cijfers van de OESO, een tweede groot onderwijsrapport, nu specifiek over het beroep van leerkracht en schooldirecteur en beperkt tot Europa.

Wat zijn de belangrijkste evoluties in het lerarenberoep?

• Initial teacher education: trend towards a 4-year Bachelor-Degree as minimum qualification
• Specific requirements for admission to initial teacher education are not very widespread
• Teacher educators’ qualifications do not differ from those of other academic teaching staff
• Mentoring for new teachers gains in importance
• Teachers are career civil servants in a minority of countries
• A growing number of countries require schools to have a professional development plan for teachers
• Greater effort needed to attract young people into the teaching profession
• The teaching profession is overwhelmingly female at lower levels of education
• Working hours of teachers not different from other professions
• Provision of support measures often decided at school level
• Minimum basic salaries often lower than per capita GDP
• Teaching methods left to teachers’ discretion
• School heads frequently involved in teacher appraisal
• Specific training for school heads required in many countries
• School heads’ work includes many educational activities
• Leadership in schools often shared in traditional ways

Eerlijk gezegd een hele kluif, maar een zeer relevant rapport dat oa dus toont dat een lerarentekort geen lokaal fenomeen zal zijn…