Teachers’ careers in Europe / Anne Gaudry-Lachet

Publication de la DEPP / Note d'information MEN

GAUDRY-LACHET, Anne. Auteur | France. Ministère de l'éducation nationale et de la jeunesse (MENJ). Direction de l'évaluation, de la prospective et de la performance (DEPP). Mission aux relations européennes et internationales (MIREI)

Edité par Ministère de l'Education nationale et de la jeunesse. Paris - 2019

The third Eurydice network report on teachers published in 2018, and relating to institutional data for the 2016-2017 school year, is entitled Teaching careers in Europe: access, progression and support. In its assessment of the teaching profession in Europe, marked by problems of shortages of qualified staff in some subjects and territories, it highlights the following trends: in terms of governance, the role of teacher employer is entrusted to schools in more than a third of the 43 education systems in the Eurydice network; the status of “civil servant” teacher, which is just as widespread as that of contractual teacher, is defined differently from one country to another; an annual amount of time is defined for in-service training in almost half of the European education systems; half of the countries offer their teachers opportunities/professional development; various assessment mechanisms are designed to encourage teachers to demonstrate professional performance while providing them with feedback on their practice.