In addition to their teaching duties, a majority of teachers (58%) say they have to address behavioral issues in their classroom every day. About three-in-ten teachers (28%) say they have to help students with mental health challenges daily.
In each of these areas, elementary and middle school teachers are more likely than those at the high school level to say they do these things on a daily basis.
And teachers in high-poverty schools are more likely than those in medium- and low-poverty schools to say they deal with these issues each day.
Cellphone policies and enforcement
Most teachers (82%) say their school or district has policies regarding cellphone use in the classroom.
Of those, 56% say these policies are at least somewhat easy to enforce, 30% say they’re difficult to enforce, and 14% say they’re neither easy nor difficult to enforce.
Experiences with cellphone policies vary widely across school levels. High school teachers (60%) are much more likely than middle school (30%) and elementary school teachers (12%) to say the policies are difficult to enforce (among those who say their school or district has a cellphone policy).
How teachers are experiencing their jobs
Thinking about the various aspects of their jobs, teachers are most satisfied with their relationship with other teachers at their school (71% are extremely or very satisfied).
They’re least satisfied with how much they’re paid – only 15% are extremely or very satisfied with their pay, while 51% are not too or not at all satisfied.
Among teachers who don’t plan to retire or stop working this year, 29% say it’s at least somewhat likely they will look for a new job in the 2023-24 school year. Within that group, 40% say they would look for a job outside of education, 29% say they’d seek a non-teaching job in education, and only 18% say they’d look for a teaching job at another public K- 12 school.
(This report was written based on the Pew Research Center’s report on the situation of teachers at the K-12 levels.)
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