Percentage of 2020–21 public school teachers who reported that they have moderate control or a great deal of control over various areas of planning and teaching in their classrooms, by whether they were still teaching in the same school, had moved to another school, or had voluntarily stopped teaching in 2021–22: School year 2021–22

	Job status
Control over various areas of planning and teaching in 2020–21	Stayers	Movers	Leavers
Selecting textbooks and other instructional materials	58.1	48.1	55.4
Selecting content, topics, and skills to be taught	63.9	56.3	60.5
Selecting teaching techniques	91.2	83.1	87.5
Evaluating and grading students	92.0	85.3	88.1
Disciplining students	77.9	71.7	78.3
Determining the amount of homework to be assigned	89.5	87.6	86.6

NOTE: Data are weighted estimates of the population. “Stayers” are teachers who were teachers in the same school in the 2021–22 TFS school year as in the 2020–21 NTPS school year. “Movers” are teachers who were still teachers in the 2021–22 TFS school year but had moved to a different school from their 2020–21 NTPS school. “Leavers” are 2020–21 NTPS teachers who were no longer teachers in the 2021–22 TFS school year. Among public school teachers who were teaching during the 2020–21 school year, 84 percent remained at the same school during the 2021–22 school year (“stayers”), 8 percent moved to a different school (“movers”), and 8 percent left the teaching profession (“leavers”). Response options included “no control,” “minor control,” “moderate control,” and “a great deal of control.”

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS), Teacher Follow-up Survey (TFS), “Current and Former Teacher Data Files,” 2021–22.