Ways to improve the Romanian teachers’ occupational prestige. A systematic literature review

Abstract

Keywords:teachers' occupational prestige, self-esteem, motivation, professional satisfaction, schoolfamily-communitypartnership Recent research has revealed that teachers' occupational prestige has become lower during the last years. The purpose of this study was to establish which are the strategies that could be applied in order to improve the teachers' prestige. At the same time, we were interested in establishing which are the main factors that contribute to the decreasing of the professional prestige of the teachers and to present the ameliorative solutions identified by us, taking into account the opinion of the researchers from Romania who have conducted researches on this topic. Some of the most important measures are related to reducing bureaucracy, stability, predictability and adequate funding of the educational system, improving teachers' working environment, and maintaining effective interpersonal relationships with students, parents, colleagues, school managers, and other educational agents. Love for teaching and the desire to contribute actively to the harmonious development of the current generation of children are some of the positive implications of this profession, which bring satisfaction to the teachers.