Teaching Profession
Education news, analysis, and opinion about teachers as a workforce and policies affecting them.
See also: Salaries & Benefits, Job Satisfaction, New Teachers, Teacher Diversity, Unions, Teacher Evaluations
The State of Teaching
New national data on the teaching profession, vivid reporting from classrooms, and resources to help support this essential profession.
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Taking Care of Teachers
This report looks at the many ways stressors related to COVID-19 and racial inequities have affected the teacher workforce, strategies for self-care, and how school leaders and districts can help protect their teachers’ social and emotional well-being through the continued uncertainty.
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Social-Emotional Learning 2017
This special collection explores methods for avoiding burnout, reducing stress, and teaching cultural responsiveness.
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Helping New Teachers Thrive
This special report explores the challenges new teachers face, and what schools of education, districts, and other organizations are doing to help them succeed.
Teaching Profession The Truth About Teachers' SummersTeachers endure many misperceptions about their jobs. Perhaps the most egregious has to do with their summer break.
Teaching Profession In Their Own Words How This 'Goofy Science Teacher' Made It to the U.S. Open in GolfHigh school science teacher and golf coach Colin Prater just played in one of the world's most prestigious golf tournaments.
Teaching Profession Teachers: Start Your School Supplies Shopping Now With These DiscountsAs teachers start back-to-school shopping, Education Week compiled a list of educator discounts that can reduce costs.
Teaching Profession What Happened—and What Didn't—at This Year's NEA Representative AssemblyThe unusual ending of the biggest assembly for the nation’s largest teachers’ union led to an incomplete annual meeting.
Teaching Profession Staff Who Disrupted NEA's Assembly Will Be Locked Out of WorkStaff members for the nation’s largest teachers’ union will be locked out of work until a contract is reached.
Teaching Profession NEA Approves AI Guidance, But It’s Vital for Educators to Tread CarefullyThe nation's largest teachers' union approved policy recommendations for using AI in classrooms.
Teaching Profession NEA's Staff Union Is on Strike—Halting NEA's Biggest Annual GatheringThe union's staff went on strike Friday, halting the NEA's biggest annual event, prompting President Biden to cancel a scheduled appearance.
Teaching Profession Bruh, Teachers Are 'Low Key' Trying to Stay on Top of Student SlangTeachers use curiosity and humor to stay in tune with kids' constantly evolving language.
Teaching Profession The Election, AI, and More: What to Expect From the NEA's Massive AssemblyThousands of delegates for the nation’s largest teachers' union are headed to Philadelphia to vote on pressing education issues.
Teaching Profession Teachers to Congress: We Shouldn't Have to Work Second JobsTeachers at a Senate hearing called for a pay boost while Republicans questioned whether it should be a federal priority.
Teaching Profession The NEA Faces an Unexpected Labor Adversary—Its Own Staff UnionStaff for the nation’s largest teachers’ union picketed at its Washington headquarters Thursday, striking for the first time in decades.
Teaching Profession Teachers Report Lower Pay, More Stress Than Workers in Other FieldsIt's yet another warning sign for the beleaguered profession.Teaching Profession Quiz Quiz Yourself: How Much Do You Know About Teacher Efficacy?Answer 7 questions about teacher efficacy.
Teaching Profession Teachers Are Pushing for Paid Parental Leave. How It's GoingEfforts to implement paid parental leave policies are slowly gaining traction, with teachers often advocating on their own behalf.
Teaching Profession In Their Own Words Cellphones Turned My Teaching Career From 'Awesome' to ExhaustingA former high school teacher shares how his students' increasing reliance on cellphones drove him out of the classroom.
