PRIMARY SOURCES Third Edition
America’s Teachers on Teaching in an Era of Change
A project of Scholastic and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
We surveyed 20,000 public school teachers.
Here’s what they had to say:
1Teachers onTEACHING
98%
AGREE THAT TEACHING IS MORE THAN A PROFESSION; IT IS HOW THEY MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD
2Teachers on theCOMMON CORE
73%
ARE ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT IMPLEMEN- TATION IN THEIR CLASSROOM; THE SAME PERCENT SAY IT WILL BE CHALLENGING
3Teachers onEVALUATIONS
69%
SAY THEY RECEIVE FEEDBACK FROM EVALUATIONS TO HELP REFINE OR IMPROVE THEIR PRACTICE
4Teachers onCOLLABORATION
57%
SAY THEY USE TECHNOLOGY TO COLLABORATE WITH TEACHERS THEY WOULDN’T OTHERWISE KNOW
