Boosting the prestige and standing of the profession

This chapter offers insights into teachers’ and school leaders’ perceptions of their working conditions and how they relate to the prestige and standing of the profession. To explore the prestige of the teaching profession, it examines to what extent teachers and school leaders consider their profession is valued in society. The chapter also contrasts teachers’ and school leaders’ levels of job satisfaction with both their working environments and their profession and how they have changed over time. In addition, new to this cycle of the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS), it describes the level of stress teachers report experiencing in their work and explores the sources of stress. The chapter concludes by examining how teachers’ perceptions of their working conditions are related to the risk of attrition.