10 Tidbits Of Instructor Trivia For Basis Teachers' Twenty-Four Hours

By Amar Toor
Communications together with Digital Officer, Directorate for Education together with Skills

Today is World Teachers' Day! Established past times UNESCO inwards 1994, World Teachers' Day is an annual first dedicated to "appreciating, assessing, together with improving the educators of the world". This year's celebration likewise marks the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which recognises educational activity every bit a key key right, together with seeks to guarantee equal access to educational activity for all children. And every bit this year's topic reminds us, "the correct to educational activity agency the correct to a qualified teacher".

In abide by of today's commemoration, we've pose together a listing of 10 teacher-related stats, based on a broad attain of our research together with reports on education. Check out the amount listing below, together with endure certain to stimulate got unopen to fourth dimension today to give thank yous the teachers inwards your life for their critically of import work.



Did yous know...? 

• The average shape inwards OECD countries has 21 pupils at the master copy level.
• On average across OECD countries, at that topographic point are 15 students per teacher at the 3rd level.
• The break of teaching hours required inwards populace upper secondary schools ranges from 405 inwards Denmark to over 1050 inwards Chile, Republic of Colombia together with Costa Rica.
• On average across OECD countries, 12% of master copy teachers are under the historic menstruum of 30.
• On average across OECD countries, women correspond 97% of the teaching staff inwards pre-primary education.
• In all OECD together with partner countries, the portion of manful somebody teachers inwards master copy educational activity is the highest inwards India (49%), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (47%), together with Turkey (41%).
• On average, 91% of teachers across countries study overall satisfaction amongst their job.
• Less than a quarter of all teachers across OECD countries believe that teaching is a valued profession inwards society.
• Teachers study spending 79% of their lesson time on actual teaching together with learning.
• 26% of teachers country at that topographic point is a lot of disruptive vibrations inwards their classrooms. 

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