{"id":3366,"date":"2017-08-21T10:28:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T15:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/?p=3366"},"modified":"2023-11-02T10:45:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T15:45:35","slug":"teacher-characteristics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/blog\/insights\/teacher-characteristics\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Characteristics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NCES Survey<\/a> of Principals and Teacher survey comes the characteristics of today&#8217;s K-12 teachers. \u00a0It is interesting in the lack of diversity in teaching and the continued shift towards teachers with less experience.<\/p>\n<p>First &#8211; let&#8217;s note that there are now over 3.8 million teachers in our schools today &#8211; that is a lot of people. \u00a0Since we know that 8% leave the profession each year, that means we now have to hire over 304,000 new hires\u00a0per year. A school district HR person asked me &#8211; &#8220;Are there any other businesses in this area that have to hire this many skilled people every year&#8221; &#8211; answer &#8211; no<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>80% of all public school teachers are white &#8211; compared to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/blog\/insights\/diversity-teaching-workforce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Teachers of Tomorrow <\/a>who are only 54% white.<\/li>\n<li>77% of \u00a0are female &#8211; compared to 65% of our teachers who are female<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The average teacher reports working an average of 53 hours per week to get everything done for their students.<\/p>\n<p>The average base salary was $55,100<\/p>\n<p>As far as training:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>79% has any courses\u00a0in lesson planning<\/li>\n<li>76% had courses in learning assessment<\/li>\n<li>74% had courses in classroom management<\/li>\n<li>70% had courses on working with special needs students<\/li>\n<li>64% had courses on working with students from diverse backgrounds<\/li>\n<li>53% on using student performance data to inform instruction<\/li>\n<li>38% had courses on working with English Language Learners ELL<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Teachers of Tomorrow educator preparation includes courses in ALL of the above to help our teachers be successful in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the latest NCES Survey of Principals and Teacher survey comes the characteristics of today&#8217;s K-12 teachers. \u00a0It is interesting in the lack of diversity in teaching and the continued &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":1308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/media\/How-The-Teacher-Shortage-Impacts-Classrooms-In-America.png","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2024-05-13 00:22:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45203,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366\/revisions\/45203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}