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chapter 6: teachers and reading instruction
taught by full-time teachers. Only in Germany and the Netherlands were
more than one third of the students taught by part-time teachers. In terms
of teaching assignments, 47 percent of students, internationally on average,
were taught by the same teacher for all or most subjects, while 36 percent
were taught by specialist teachers for core subjects. There were few countries
where, almost exclusively, students were taught by the same teacher for all
or most subjects (the Russian Federation with 97% of students and Iran with
90%) or almost exclusively taught by a specialist teacher for core subjects
(Denmark with 97% of students and Hong Kong SAR with 91%). One fourth
or more of the students in the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden had
teachers who shared teaching responsibilities with another teacher, but this
was relatively rare (10% of students), internationally on average.
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