) presents an overview of teachers and teaching in primary and upper secondary education for a sample of countries that … workforce for most countries at all levels of education. Despite this and the fact that most principals are former teachers …, significantly fewer principals are women at all education levels. Primary teachers tend to work in schools where principals report …

nature, ICT places unique demands on teachers, requiring a certain level of digital literacy and specialised pedagogical …

, Positive, High-achieving Students? What Schools and Teachers Can Do, explores some of the teacher and school factors that could …

pandemic, the importance of teachers and schools has become all the more evident. Temporary school closures underline how … richly students benefit from being in school with their teachers and classmates. Positive, High-achieving Students? What … Schools and Teachers Can Do pinpoints some of the factors that make an effective teacher and school. …

, defined as teachers’ decision-making over aspects related to their work; and peer networks, defined as opportunities for …

of teachers report receiving feedback on different aspects of their work in their schools. Teacher feedback has a … developmental focus, with many teachers reporting that it leads to improvements in their teaching practices, and other aspects of … their work. However, not all feedback is seen as meaningful: nearly half of the teachers across TALIS countries report that …

, many teachers around the globe were tasked with moving their lessons on line. There is some evidence that education systems … International Survey (TALIS 2018) offers some useful information to illuminate why some teachers are more likely to let students use … ICT for projects or class work than others, and to explore the factors behind whether teachers take up professional …

The OECD teachers’ occupational well-being framework contributes to understanding and measuring the occupational well …-being of teachers between and within systems. It provides a pathway to explore the association between the quality of working … environments and teachers’ levels of occupational well-being. It also covers the association of teachers’ occupational well …

methods, an extended time period, a group of colleagues, and collective learning activities or research with other teachers …. The higher the exposure of teachers to high-quality professional development, the more likely they are to use a wide … variety of teaching practices in the classroom. Professional development activities that focus on curriculum knowledge (rather …