Most teachers like what they do and feel accomplished, but do not consider their career attractive, understand that salaries are low and, therefore, would not encourage a young man to choose the profession.
Os teachers They teach us, enrich us, help us. They are a fundamental part of our education. However, do not recommend that we are as they.
Most like what they do, they feel done, but would not encourage a young man to choose the profession.
The portrait is set in the results, released this Friday, of the National Consultation promoted by the National Federation of Education (FNE) and the Association for Training and Research in Education and Labor (AFIET).
Held between July 13 and 27, the inquiry was made to 4,638 teachers, from preschool to secondary, and there are almost unanimous opinions, the taste for the profession.
According to the results, 94.4% like to be a teacher And close to eight out of 10 say they feel fulfilled in professional practice.
Positive happiness and feelings are not, however, reflecting on what they think about working conditions.
“We are parents, psychologists, nurses …”
More than 90% of respondents consider working too much for what they receive and understand that salaries are not at the level of the required qualifications and skills.
More than 70% say the profession is not globally recognizedthe career is not attractive, and feel constantly evaluated and judged.
“I have been a teacher for 39 years. I like what I do, but I don’t feel that we are valued; And we are badly paid“A childhood educator told Zap.
“We are parents, psychologists, nurses… There is one that says ‘being a teacher is being an artist, juggler, painter, sculptor, doctor, musicologist, psychologist, researcher’… and it’s very true, ”says the same teacher.
Be happy, “but don’t do what I do”
For the reasons listed above, and although they like what they do, most teachers (73.2%) would not encourage a young man to choose his teaching career.
In a kind of balance of the last school year, the ‘ranking’ of the biggest challenges faced by teachers is led by administrative workfollowed by the need to respond to the diversity of specific needs of each student, the conciliation between work and personal life and indiscipline in the classroom.
For more than half (55.7%) missing resources and supports to work with students and 44.8% spent more timecompared to the previous year, in bureaucratic tasks that most consider unique or useless.
Asked about investment priorities in your school, support for specific needs is the most frequent response (19.2%), followed by the reinforcement of educational support personnel (18.8%) and teaching staff (16.7%).
About 11% also reported the reinforcement of material resources and specialized technicians and 8% point to the improvement of the climate climatization of classrooms.
Currently, two of the main challenges referred to by the teachers are the LACK OF PARENTS SUPPORTthe feeling of “stress”due to the constant management of situations of indiscipline.
Miguel Esteves, Zap //
