Evaluation of Teachers’ Status with Reference to UNESCO Recommendations for Teachers’ Status

Abstract

The study was conducted to evaluate the teachers' status with reference to UNESCO recommendations. Moreover, this study was intended to find out the appreciation availed by the teachers, to compare the job demand levels of competence for teaching, conduciveness of working conditions for teachers and level of fulfillment of teachers' needs through the remuneration and the other benefits. Population of this descriptive study was consisted of all public primary school teachers from district Gujrat. Two stage systematic random sampling technique was used. Seventy schools out of 1396 and 336 PSTs were selected at second stage. Questionnaire on five points Likert scale was used to collect data. For analysis of data, descriptive statistics was used to find out Mean and Frequencies. It was concluded that teachers enjoyed their desired status in schools and society, whereas they reported that their pay package and health facilities were not up to the mark.