Monday, November 26, 2007

Absolutely no difference

40% of the teachers in the Valencian Community are demotivated  and 7% are considering  the possibility of looking for alternative work according to  a survey gathered in the report of the Defensor del Pueblo.

The main reasons given are, interruptions by the students in lessons (100% of teachers in the survey) and the lack of respect shown by students towards them (82.3% ).  

 Other factors included; the lack of participation by families in the education of their children (37.3% of the teachers), student learning difficulties (36,3%) and  aggressive behaviour between students (23,3%). 

If you surveyed English teachers you would get almost identical results. It isn't the newspaper headline behaviour that causes most grief for teachers, it's the low level disruption that wears them down. As for lack of respect. Don't get me started on that topic! Some of  the children I encountered showed no respect for their parents, for people in authority, for their teachers, for their peers even for themselves.

One factor that the English teachers might add though is lack of support by parents. Increasingly,  parents in England will blame the teachers rather than their children for things that go wrong in school.

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