Research On Working Conditions Of High School Teachers

The working conditions of high school teachers directly affect the quality of education at the high school level. However, we still know little about how teachers live and work in high schools. The main purpose of this research is to describe high school teachers'working conditions under a conceptual framework based on literature review, and by comparing perspectives of ordinary teachers and school leaders, to enhance our understandings of teachers' lives in high school.By reviewing the literature on the working conditions of teachers, we re-definite the concept of working condition and outline the research framework. Teacher's working condition is analyzed from three different levels, they are organization, group and individual. We analyze different dimensions (gender, region, seniority) from the perspective of teachers, and have given a specific analysis by comparing the view of teachers and school leaders.This study use questionnaires to investigate working conditions of teachers.From the respective of teachers, at the organizational level, different teachers have difference in management enthusiasm, but all the teachers have a high sense of ownership; at the group level, the difference lies in different understanding about the relationship of the staff; at the individual level, female teachers have high achievement and income satisfaction, but the pressure is great. The pressure of teachers whose teaching experience is longer is relatively smaller.Comparing the teachers and school leaders, except for the achievement sense, there are significant differences between teachers and school leaders in other aspects.Based on the findings, this paper puts forward some suggestions to improve teacher leadership, promote communication between teachers and school leaders and some related recommendations of the future research.