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Moreover, instructors may also practice grade inflation due to concern for their students’ psychology, motivation and life prospects. Some educators admit that students today face excessive parental and social pressures to achieve high grades. Under such circumstances, teachers may decide that grade inflation is preferable to causing
rating grades. Thus, the empirical evidence clearly proves that grade inflation exists due to one of two characteristics, university-level, or instructor-specific factors (Jewell et al., 2013), and that grades influence the students’ evaluation of their teachers as well as their choice of teaching
from teacher preparation programmes have been commencing their professional careers in rural schools. Superinten-dents recognize that a 'buyers market' exists and so selects teachers for positions rather than accept whoever may be available. Recently, a shortage of specialist teachers has arisen in rural and northern areas of the. province.
Stemming from the 2020 pan-Canadian survey on mental health, teachers shared how before and during the pandemic they continue to carry the burden, in and out of the classrooms, psychologically, emotionally, and physically, for their students, colleagues, parents, and their own close relations.
This study used a survey method to explore the perceptions of online professional development (PD) from a sample of Canadian teachers. Ninety-two practicing teachers completed an anonymous online survey between July and September 2020. Results were analyzed using both quantitative and qualitative methods.
This "CTF/FCE Mental Health Check-in Report" analyzes the follow-up "pulse" style CTF/FCE Survey on the mental health and well-being of teachers in the 2020-2021 school year, documenting the continued detrimental effects of the prolonged pandemic on teachers' mental health and well-being.
institutions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A similar response occurred in Canada and resulted in a sudden pivot by teachers from classroom-based instruction to remote teaching. During and shortly after this time, we undertook a survey study of over 2000 Canadian teachers, as well as follow-up interviews with a representative
Increasing teacher compensation is critical to effectively recruiting and retaining the teachers that schools need. However, teachers earn 26 percent less than comparable college graduates, a pay gap that has grown over time, and that can inhibit people from choosing to become teachers and staying in the profession.