Thematic Research Report
Teacher Supply, Deployment and Instructional Capacity: Indicators for System Planning
A stock-and-flow framework for measuring whether the teaching workforce is sufficient, equitably deployed and available for instruction
The ability of an education system to provide sustained instruction depends on more than the number of persons recorded as teachers. A funded post may be vacant. A person on the payroll may be assigned outside a school, absent on the observation day, working part time or teaching a subject for which no preparation has been completed. A teacher present at school may have fewer instructional hours because the timetable, school calendar, shift arrangement or non-teaching duties reduce contact with pupils. Conversely, one teacher may serve more than one class, grade or school. Any account of teacher supply that does not preserve these distinctions can report apparent sufficiency while children receive no dependable instruction.
- Research category
- Data and Indicator Research
- Report archetype
- Comparative Indicator Study
- Geographic scope
- Global