Ask teens about how motivated they are to do well in school and hopeful they are feeling about the future, and the overall outlook is fairly sunny—in some cases, decidedly more so than it was two years ago.
But when you ask ÌÇÐ͝Âþvlog a similar question about their students and themselves, their answers paint a very different picture.
That’s according to the results of two nationally representative surveys conducted by the EdWeek Research Center between December 2022 and February 2023.
Perhaps the starkest difference between 13- to 19-year-olds and ÌÇÐ͝Âþvlog: Thirty-eight percent of students said that as of 2023, the pandemic had made them less motivated to do their best in school. But a whopping 80 percent of ÌÇÐ͝Âþvlog said that the pandemic had made students less motivated.
There is, however, one area where students and ÌÇÐ͝Âþvlog (teachers, principals, and district leaders) are in near total agreement, and that’s on how motivated teachers are to teach students. About 80 percent of students and ÌÇÐ͝Âþvlog say that teachers in their schools are motivated to do their best.
The following charts present a clearer picture of how student and teacher motivation are shaping up this school year, based on the perspectives of nationally representative samples of 1,011 students and 1,058 teachers, principals, and district leaders.