日本老師: 工作時間最長 自我評価低

A few weeks ago the NHK News on-line reported the following:

日本の教員 勤務時間最長 自己評価低い

6月25日 18時11分

学校の教員の勤務や指導の環境について国際調査が行われ、日本の教員は、勤務時間が週におよそ５４時間と参加した国や地域の中で最も長い一方で、自己評価は低いことが分かりました。

この調査はＯＥＣＤ＝経済協力開発機構が去年、３４の国と地域を対象に行いました。
日本は初めて参加し、中学校の校長や教員およそ３７００人が回答しました。
この中で１週間当たりの勤務時間を聞いたところ、日本の教員は５３．９時間と参加した国や地域のうち最も長く、平均の１．４倍に上りました。
内訳を見ますと、授業の時間は１７．７時間で平均の１９．３時間より短かったものの、部活動などの課外活動は７．７時間と平均の３倍余りに上り、事務作業の時間も平均のおよそ２倍でした。
一方で、学級運営や教科指導などに対する自己評価は低く、特に「生徒の批判的思考を促す」指導や「生徒に勉強ができると自信を持たせる」指導ができていると自分を高く評価した教員の割合は、平均のおよそ５分の１にとどまりました。
さらに、仕事のスケジュールと合わないため研修に参加できないと答えた教員が８割を超えています。文部科学省は「幅広い業務が重なり子どもたちの指導に集中できず、能力開発も十分行えずにいる実態が浮き彫りになった。教員を増やすなど体制の充実を図っていきたい」と話しています。

(試譯文)

An international research was performed on the service of teachers and their teaching environment in schools. It showed that while the office-hour of Japanese teachers was about 54 hours in a week, being the longest in the participating countries and areas, their self-valuation was low.

The OECD - Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development conducted this investigation on 34 countries and areas last year.

Japan participated in the investigation for the first time, principals and teachers of about 3700 people from junior high schools answered it.

In it, on the question about office-hour per week, the Japanese teacher was 53.9 hours, being the longest among the participating countries and areas, and above the average by 1.4 times.

Although the teaching-hour was 17.7 which was shorter than the average 19.3 hours, when individual items were seen, extracurricular activities such as part activity went up to 7.7 hours which was three times as much as the average, and the time of clerical work was also about twice of the average.

On the other hand, it was low on self-valuation on class management and course teaching etc., especially on the percentage of the teachers who judged highly that they could give guiding instruction "to encourage students’ critical thinking", and instruction "to encourage student to have the confidence to learn". It was on average about one out of five.

Furthermore, over 80 percent of the teachers answered that they could not participate in training because their work schedule could not fitted into it. The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology said that "due to a wide range of business overlapping, the teaching of children cannot be focused; the reality that ability developments could not be sufficiently carried out had been highlighted. I plan on beefing up the organization, such as to have more teachers".

    It seems that improvement in education is needed in order to improve the teaching quality in Japan.