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Teaching Profession – ICC 2025 Cnesco
Start date: October 8, 2025

Registration

Registration is now open for the webinars and participatory workshops of the 2025 International Comparison Conference on the Teaching Profession.

• Opening webinar, Wednesday October 8, 2025 (2:00–5:00 pm):
  Registration link
  Registration closes Friday October 3.
• Thematic webinars (November 3–5, 12:30–2:00 pm and 5:00–6:30 pm) AND participatory workshops (November 6, 9:30 am–4:00 pm):
  Registration link
  Registration closes Sunday October 26.

Please note: The conference will take place in hybrid format.

• The webinars on October 8, and from November 3 to 5 will be held online

• The participatory workshops will be held in person on November 6 at the Inspé de Paris, Batignolles site (75017). The exact address will be sent to you upon registration.

Consult the program in French

Consult the program in English

Overview of the Cnesco ICC 2025 on the Teaching Profession

The teaching profession is facing a growing loss of attractiveness, visible both in France and internationally through increasing recruitment difficulties and a sense of declining status. Teachers, essential to student success, are confronted with broad societal changes – particularly those driven by new technologies – that are reshaping how teaching and learning take place. At the same time, they are confronted with an increasingly broad range of expectations. Five years after the Grenelle de l’Éducation (an online consultation launched in 2020, that brought together teachers, families, policymakers, and unions to discuss teacher career development and training, among other things), Cnesco is once more addressing these crucial issues.

Through the lens of international comparison, the conference will assess the challenges facing the teaching profession: What developments are shaping teachers’ work in the classroom today? How have these changes altered their relationships with students? What meaning can be attached to a profession subject to multiple expectations – and which questions are raised by the emergence of artificial intelligence?

The contributions will also explore the factors that reinforce the declining attractiveness of the profession and highlight the changes teachers themselves view as essential to strengthening their role. International comparisons can shed light on differences in recruitment and placement, working conditions, and teacher training, as well as the implications of these structural variations.

Afterwards, the conference will turn to two interrelated themes that appear to influence the practice of teaching:

• The skills teachers must acquire to meet the demands of their profession: how do the integration of educational research findings, the growing importance of interpersonal skills, and the spread of digital technology within and beyond schools shape the professional competencies required of teachers?

• The role of collective practice as a response to some of these challenges: how might a profession organized around shared reflection, training, and responsibilities inside and outside the school or institution help teachers address new situations?

Finally, there will be a focus put on the recognition of the teaching profession, comparing different profiles (including the increasingly common cases of second careers) and examining career development opportunities (flexibility, evaluation, support, remuneration). Teachers’ career trajectories will also be considered: What options are open to them? How can they make the most of their experience? This will raise the issue of defining teachers’ duties and accounting for tasks beyond classroom instruction, as well as their relationship with the institution. How can contradictory demands and the perception of insufficient recognition be overcome? How can relations between teachers and institutions be structured to ensure that teachers feel more supported and valued, while safeguarding the quality of education?

To respond to these questions, Cnesco will hold the International Comparison Conference in October and November 2025. International researchers and experts are going to present diverse perspectives on the teaching profession and share policy approaches adopted in other countries to tackle challenges similar to those faced in France.

Learn more about Cnesco’s International Comparison Conferences