Keyword: «teachers»

This study investigates the trends in regard to teachers and moonlighting, the perceived effects of teacher moonlighting on classroom instruction, and attitudes of teachers toward their salaries and moonlighting. Besides the results of the research conducted in Texas, USA, we have also included results of a small pilot survey conducted among teachers in a few schools and in the Center of the Children’s Creativity in Kirov, Russia. The findings demonstrate that teachers would stop moonlighting if their salaries were higher, and the teachers perceive that their instructional practices would be better quality if they were not moonlighting.

The paper is devoted to the problem of emotional burnout among teachers. The process of gradual loss of energy (emotional, physical, and cognitive) is manifested in emotional exhaustion, physical fatigue, personal detachment of teachers, reduce of job satisfaction. Investigation of burnout will identify landmarks in the development of preventive and corrective actions of the specified condition.

Article opens history of formation of military engineering education in the Samara region. The author focus-es special attention in article on training of qualified specialists for domestic armed forces, and also use of potential of the high-prepared engineering shots transferred to the reserve for a national economy of the USSR and the Russian Federation.

Article opens creation history in the city of Tolyatti of the educational direction on training of specialists for welding production from training of students before development and deployment on welding productions of modern technologies and the equipment. Indissoluble communication of the faculty of university and students is shown during process of training and formation of high quality experts in welding production.

The purpose of this study was to assess teachers’ working conditions within schools to help identify potential problems and develop strategies and policies to effectively address them. The setting for this study is 50 Texas high schools where 385 Texas high school science teachers participated in this study. Schools were identified using a two-stage stratified random sampling plan. Two explicit stratification variables were used (school size and minority student enrollment proportion) along with an additional implicit stratification method to account for the schools’ location. All principals (n=50; 100% return rate) completed a field-based semi-structured interview. Science teachers within the schools completed a 22-question survey (n=385; 89.6% return rate). In addition, master schedules and Academic Excellence Indicator System reports were collected. In addition, a working conditions rubric was developed and then analyzed using factor analysis. The rubric was applied to all 385 science teachers to obtain a working conditions score. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the frequency and percentages of working conditions components. This study suggests that science teachers experience significantly more difficult working conditions that depend on the size of their school, the teacher’s experience level, and minority student enrollment proportion of the school. In short, working conditions are a significant component within the teacher professional continuum. Educational institutions should examine the working conditions of all teachers more closely, particularly in the light of establishing professional cultures that promote collegiality and interactions among teachers and providing materials for teaching and learning.