{"id":314,"date":"2011-07-29T15:16:39","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T19:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=314"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:12:37","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T20:12:37","slug":"five-ways-teachers-are-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/07\/29\/five-ways-teachers-are-changing\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Ways Teachers Are Changing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Center for Education Information released its most recent national <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edweek.org\/media\/pot2011final-blog.pdf\">teacher survey<\/a> this morning and it shows some changes among the country&#8217;s 3.2 million educators.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Teachers are &#8220;slightly more satisfied&#8221; with their working conditions and community status than they were in 2005, 1996, 1990 and 1986 surveys.<\/li>\n<li>About 40 percent of teachers hired since 2005 were trained in alternative programs rather than traditional education schools.<\/li>\n<li>Those teachers trained in alternative programs were also more likely to favor <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/tag\/merit-pay\/\">pay-for-performance<\/a>, eliminating tenure and other education reforms now mandated by Florida law and considered in other states.<\/li>\n<li>Teachers are skewing younger, with 22 percent under the age of 30. That&#8217;s up from 11 percent of teachers under the age of 30 in 2005.<\/li>\n<li>Younger teachers are also less experienced. More than one-quarter of teachers surveyed in 2011 had five or fewer years of experience, up from 18 percent in 2005.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more-->What does the survey mean? State-by-state results were not available. Author <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/roundup\/roll-call-penny-politics-whither-the-sat-how-merit-pay-should-work\/\">RiShawn Biddle<\/a> has argued that merit pay will only grow more common because younger teachers are more likely to support it. But Florida&#8217;s teachers have been <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/07\/27\/teachers-head-for-the-door-as-new-requirements-take-hold\/\">voting with their feet<\/a> since lawmakers mandated merit pay and ended tenure during the last legislative session. Florida teachers have also taken a 3 percent pay cut to fund their pensions and are dealing with changes to state standardized tests that determine their job performance.<\/p>\n<p>Read <em>Education Week<\/em>&#8216;s take on the survey <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edweek.org\/teachers\/teaching_now\/2011\/07\/report_shows_shift_in_teaching_force.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Center for Education Information released its most recent national teacher survey this morning and it shows some changes among the country&#8217;s 3.2 million educators. Teachers are &#8220;slightly more satisfied&#8221; with their working conditions and community status than they were in 2005, 1996, 1990 and 1986 surveys. About 40 percent of teachers hired since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[1007,1018,1006,1015],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}