The Alberta government participated in TALIS 2024, which is a global survey of the education / teaching profession conducted by the OECD. For those looking to quantify where Alberta stands from a empirical standpoint, this is a good source.
https://www.oecd.org/en/publications...368aa6-en.html
Some very interesting metrics to consider:
- only 13% of teachers agree that their views are valued by policy makers, a decrease of 25% since 2018.
- 50% agree that their salaries are satisfactory.
- total working hours per week is 46.9 (OECD average is 41); 27.6 hours on teaching, 6.9 on lesson preparation, 4.8 on marking, and 2.4 on administrative.
One key metric that we've discussed here, is teacher burnout and stress. In terms of jurisdictions in the survey, we rank dead last (i.e. our teachers are the most stressed in the World).
Overall, there are puts and takes in the survey. But if we are a society that values education and want a world class education system for our future generations, we need to be aiming far higher than we are currently.