Waarom leerkrachten het onderwijs verlaten

In het rapport 'The Experience of New Teachers - Results from TALIS 2008' (TALIS staat voor Teaching and Learning International Survey) staat beschreven waarom jonge leerkrachten zo snel het beroep verlaten. Het is volgens de OESO het eerste en enige rapport van deze grootte over de omstandigheden van lesgeven en onderwijs.

Dit is de korte samenvatting:

This report examines the working lives of new teachers through the TALIS 2008 survey of lower-secondary teachers and schools. New teachers are defined as having two years or less of teaching experience. In most countries, new teachers assume virtually the same teaching responsibilities as more experienced teachers, but they report that they often lack the necessary classroom management skills for effective teaching and learning. Their classrooms often have insufficient time devoted to teaching and learning and poorer disciplinary climate.

Uit de blog van een van de onderzoeksters valt alvast een vaststelling heel erg op:

One of the issues that is often cited as a reason for new teachers leaving the profession before five years is that new teachers are placed in more difficult schools than their more experienced colleagues. The TALIS report found that this is simply not true. Despite research that has led to a widespread belief that new teachers work in harder conditions (or harder-to-staff schools), on average across TALIS 2008 countries, new teachers report that their students have similar language and socioeconomic backgrounds to the students of more experienced teachers.New teachers also work in schools with similar material and personnel resources, measured by their impact on teaching and learning.

Although new teachers may not be in more challenging schools, this doesn’t mean that they don’t have challenges in the area of classroom management. The report finds that new teachers spend less time on teaching and learning of any kind and more time than experienced teachers on keeping order in the classroom. This is a worrying trend for both the students of these teachers, who are not getting the same quality learning experience as their peers might be, and for the teachers themselves, who report significantly lower levels of self-efficacy than their more experienced colleagues. (bron)

Je kan een uitgebreide samenvatting hier downloaden.

Het volledige rapport kan je hier downloaden. Wil je zelf met de data aan de slag, dat kan, check hier.