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ADEC launches teacher satisfaction survey

Abu Dhabi Education Council has announced the launch of teacher satisfaction survey to better understand its teachers in public and private schools in Abu Dhabi.

Dr. Mugheer Al Khaili, the Director General of ADEC, stressed that this is the Year of the Teacher; and that we will do all we can to give them respect and recognition that they deserve, in public and private schools in Abu Dhabi.

“It’s the first time that teachers of private schools are investigated about job satisfaction and work conditions”, Dr. Al Khaili pointed out.

He stressed that the ultimate aim of the Abu Dhabi education is to transform and help every child to become a man of good character and useful citizen of the universe. He added that we can achieve this through the quality of education, quality of teachers and quality of teaching learning process.

Other things remaining, the quality of education largely learning transaction cannot be undertaken in vacuum but it is positively directed action, for which teachers are to be endeavour with satisfaction towards a job and the need of possessing the quality change-prone. This is the right time to focus on the significance of Teacher Job Satisfaction among the Abu Dhabi public and private school teachers.

He noted that Results of this survey will help ADEC better direct its efforts in truly appreciating the role of teachers, and to better structure their careers for the optimal outcomes. The survey protects teacher confidentiality, and they are not asked to include any identifying information such as name or other specifics. All information collected from the survey will be kept confidential. Most of the questions on this survey will relate to teacher job or work environment and thus these may bring up concerns teachers have about their career.

Dr. Mugheer concluded that we hope that ADEC decision makers and school decision makers might benefit from this study through improved understanding of teacher job satisfaction.

Professor Masood Badri, the head of Research in ADEC also noted that there has been an enormous amount of research which could answer to such questions as - What teaching behaviors are related to pupil outcomes in different areas of classroom learning. In what way they are related? What are the characteristics of effective ad ineffective teachers? How can teaching behaviors be incorporated in teachers during their training? Lots of research efforts have been directed on teaching competency but unfortunately much attention of research is not drawn to correlate teaching competency in relation to Teacher Job Satisfaction.

Abu Dhabi Education Council will participate in TALIS (The Teaching and Learning International Survey) which will be conducted by OECD in 2012.

The survey is posted on ADEC’s website and is intended for teachers in public and private schools in Abu Dhabi.

Dr. Mugheer noted the commitment of ADEC and that the results of the survey will be made available end of June 2011 to the public; and a full day retreat will be carried out by ADEC top executives, and public and private school representatives to discuss the results and shed light on the way forward.