Attracting And Keeping The Best Teachers

Author : Anna Sullivan,Bruce Johnson,Michele Simons
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811386213

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Attracting and Keeping the Best Teachers by Anna Sullivan,Bruce Johnson,Michele Simons Pdf

This book challenges dominant thinking about early career teachers and their work. It offers an in-depth and critical analysis of policies concerning the work of early career teachers and how they are supported during this critical period, when they are highly vulnerable to leaving the profession. Moreover, the book provides examples from actual practice that illustrate how to help early career teachers make a successful transition into the profession. These practices promote early career teachers’ development and help the profession as a whole to capitalize on the new knowledge and skills that these teachers bring to their classrooms and their students. The book is divided into two main parts. Part 1 deals with the difficult to define process of retaining early career teachers, and its respective chapters consider this broad issue from an international perspective. They explore how policies and practices have an impact on what happens in schools, and what it means to be a teacher and to teach. In turn, Part 2 focuses on the need to reconsider the policies and practices that create the ‘problem’ of early career teachers, and offers alternative ways forward. Each chapter addresses a specific aspect of the early career teacher retention issue, contributing to a greater understanding of how we can rethink the work of early career teachers so that they can more successfully transition into the profession.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004506657

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Recruiting and Educating the Best Teachers: Policy, Professionalism and Pedagogy by Anonim Pdf

This book demonstrates that policy, professionalism, and pedagogy are integral to the development of the best teachers that our students deserve. The empirical quantitative and qualitative studies and narratives presented in this volume demonstrate that strong analyses are needed to drive decisions on policy and practice.

Author : Bruce Johnson,Barry Down,Rosie Le Cornu,Judy Peters,Anna Sullivan,Jane Pearce,Janet Hunter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789812871732

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Early Career Teachers by Bruce Johnson,Barry Down,Rosie Le Cornu,Judy Peters,Anna Sullivan,Jane Pearce,Janet Hunter Pdf

This book addresses one of the most persistent issues confronting governments, educations systems and schools today: the attraction, preparation, and retention of early career teachers. It draws on the stories of sixty graduate teachers from Australia to identify the key barriers, interferences and obstacles to teacher resilience and what might be done about it. Based on these stories, five interrelated themes - policies and practices, school culture, teacher identity, teachers’ work, and relationships – provide a framework for dialogue around what kinds of conditions need to be created and sustained in order to promote early career teacher resilience. The book provides a set of resources – stories, discussion, comments, reflective questions and insights from the literature – to promote conversations among stakeholders rather than providing yet another ‘how to do’ list for improving the daily lives of early career teachers. Teaching is a complex, fragile and uncertain profession. It operates in an environment of unprecedented educational reforms designed to control, manage and manipulate pedagogical judgements. Teacher resilience must take account of both the context and circumstances of individual schools (especially those in economically disadvantaged communities) and the diversity of backgrounds and talents of early career teachers themselves. The book acknowledges that the substantial level of change required– cultural, structural, pedagogical and relational – to improve early career teacher resilience demands a great deal of cooperation and support from governments, education systems, schools, universities and communities: teachers cannot do it alone. This book is written to generate conversations amongst early career teachers, teacher colleagues, school leaders, education administrators, academics and community leaders about the kinds of pedagogical and relational conditions required to promote early career teacher resilience and wellbeing.

Author : Marge Scherer
Publisher : ASCD
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781416601005

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Keeping Good Teachers by Marge Scherer Pdf

This book offers suggestions on how to retain good teachers, from strategies for welcoming new teachers to ideas for how to make veteran teachers feel valued.

Author : Bruce S. Cooper,Janet D. Mulvey
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781607092193

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Getting and Keeping New Teachers by Bruce S. Cooper,Janet D. Mulvey Pdf

Retaining new teachers has never been easy and when the teachers are on the fast track in urban settings, turnover and retention are real problems. This book examines how schools can work to recruit, support, and somehow hold on to new teachers, many of whom have only limited formal preparation and experience in the classroom. Getting and Keeping New Teachers explores the orientation of new teachers, their lives in urban schools, and the key role of school leadership and strong collegiality, all of which combine in some cases to support and retain new teachers in important ways.

Author : Tanya Ovenden-Hope,Rowena Passy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429556951

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Exploring Teacher Recruitment and Retention by Tanya Ovenden-Hope,Rowena Passy Pdf

This thought-provoking collection examines the challenge of teacher shortages that is of international concern. It presents multiple perspectives, and explores the commonalities and differences in approaches from around the world to understand possible solutions for the current teacher workforce crisis. Acknowledging that solutions to attract and retain teachers vary by country, region and in some cases locality, the contributors scrutinise a range of workforce planning interventions at local and government level, including financial incentives and early career support. The book draws on different perspectives to understand a range of problems that negatively affect teacher recruitment and retention, unpicking key challenges, including links between the disadvantages of location and access to teachers for coastal and rural schools, rising pupil numbers, declining school budgets and the role of professional learning in raising teacher status. Abundant in critiques, research-informed positions and context-specific discussions about the impact of teacher workforce supply and shortages, this book will be valuable reading for teacher educators, educational leaders, education policy makers and academics in the field.

Author : Jillian Fox,Colette Alexander,Tania Aspland
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811541247

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Teacher Education in Globalised Times by Jillian Fox,Colette Alexander,Tania Aspland Pdf

This book provides commentary on the influence of multi-layered political contexts that surround the work of teacher educators worldwide. It addresses the drawbacks of the massification, standards-based movements and marketisation of universal business that threaten authenticity, innovation and entrepreneurship within teacher education on a global scale. The chapters celebrate the richly described local stories that explore the often tacit political activity that underpins teacher educators’ work. The book highlights the commitment of both teachers and teacher educators to social justice, and human rights and critical consciousness as central to the process of teacher development. Teacher formation, teacher education policies and curriculum development in an era of globalisation, super-diversity and the positioning of Indigenous populations, and national regulation and localisation are topics that are explored in this book.

Author : Ian Menter
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1761 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031161933

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The Palgrave Handbook of Teacher Education Research by Ian Menter Pdf

This handbook presents a timeless, comprehensive, and up-to-date resource covering major issues in the field of teacher education research. In a global landscape where migration, inequality, climate change, political upheavals and strife continue to be broadly manifest, governments and scholars alike are increasingly considering what role education systems can play in achieving stability and managed, sustainable economic development. With growing awareness that the quality of education is very closely related to the quality of teachers and teaching, teacher education has moved into a key position in international debate and discussion. This volume brings together transnational perspectives to provide insight and evidence of current policy and practice in the field, covering issues such as teacher supply, preservice education, continuing professional learning, leadership development, professionalism and identity, comparative and policy studies, as well as gender, equity, and social justice.

Author : Jill Nyhus,Jason Culbertson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0578649950

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Teacher Recruitment and Retention by Jill Nyhus,Jason Culbertson Pdf

By prioritizing recruitment and retention in a new, systemic way, districts and schools can experience increased success in finding and retaining those teachers their students desperately need. This practical playbook for K12 school and district leaders is a collection of some of the most effective strategies and tactics that are working to attract, screen, hire, and retain the teachers that districts need most, including:- opportunities to learn, assess, and reflect on current practices that work and gaps to address;- concrete, proven next steps for building a year-round, multi-stakeholder recruitment system that will attract more effective teachers; - a variety of proven levers for improving support, growth, and leadership opportunities for retaining teachers; and- 50+ pages of appendices with templates, forms, and guides for components of an effective recruitment campaign.

Author : Nicole Mockler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350132344

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Constructing Teacher Identities by Nicole Mockler Pdf

This book is grounded in the idea that words matter. It holds that how we discuss teachers and teaching in the public space shapes the way we come to regard teachers as a society; the beliefs we hold about who they are, what they do, and why they do it. Over time it also comes to shape the conditions and contexts in which teachers do their work. This matters because schooling provides one of the very few common experiences that most of us share. Teaching, in particular, provides a convenient rallying point for discussions of public policy, and beyond citizens' own school experiences, the print media makes the most significant contribution to broad social understandings of schooling and teachers' work. This book provides a comprehensive and systematic exploration of print media discourses around teachers and their work, using over 65,000 articles published in Australian print media from 1996 to 2020 as a case study. It also takes a comparative look, drawing on print media texts from other countries, namely the United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Canada. It employs an innovative combination of large-scale corpus-assisted analysis and close qualitative analysis to identify and explore representations of teachers in the print media, how they are constructed and how these constructions have changed and shifted over the past twenty five years.

Author : Marge Scherer
Publisher : ASCD
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-12-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781416612636

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Keeping Good Teachers by Marge Scherer Pdf

What attracts good teachers and keeps them in the profession? What makes schools better places for students to learn and for teachers to work? These questions are at the heart of Keeping Good Teachers. To answer them, many of the authors in this book have surveyed fellow educators to find out which practices and policies are most beneficial and practical to implement in schools. The book is divided into five sections: *Part I explores the extent of the teacher shortage and sets the context for studying it. *Part II concentrates on induction, tackling the issue of how new teachers should be introduced to their profession. *Part III looks at the issues of compensation, performance-based pay, career paths, national certification, and other ways to reward educators and make them feel valued. *Part IV describes the role of principals and administrators in sustaining teachers. *Part V discusses the needs and desires of master teachers. Like its predecessor A Better Beginning: Supporting and Mentoring New Teachers (ASCD 1999), Keeping Good Teachers is dedicated to all those who want to make their profession the best it can be by creating the conditions where good teachers can thrive. Note: This product listing is for the Adobe Acrobat (PDF) version of the book.

Author : Howard P. McKeon
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780756710071

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Developing and Maintaining a High-Quality Teacher Force by Howard P. McKeon Pdf

Witnesses: Emily Feistritzer, Executive Director, Center for Educational Information, Wash., DC; Katrina Robertson Reed, Associate Superintendent for Administrative Services, District of Columbia Public Schools, Wash., DC; Robert Strauss, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, The H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA; Beverly Young, Associate Director for Teacher Education and K-12 Programs, California State University, Long Beach, CA; and Marci Kanstoroom, Research Director, Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, and Research Fellow, Manhattan Institute, Washington, DC.

Author : Vivian Troen,Katherine C. Boles
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780300134629

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Who's Teaching Your Children? by Vivian Troen,Katherine C. Boles Pdf

Many of the problems afflicting American education are the result of a critical shortage of qualified teachers in the classrooms. The teacher crisis is surprisingly resistant to current reforms and is getting worse. This important book reveals the causes underlying the crisis and offers concrete, affordable proposals for effective reform. Vivian Troen and Katherine Boles, two experienced classroom teachers and education consultants, argue that because teachers are recruited from a pool of underqualified candidates, given inadequate preparation, and dropped into a culture of isolation without mentoring, support, or incentives for excellence, they are programmed to fail. Half quit within their first five years. Troen and Boles offer an alternative, a model of reform they call the Millennium School, which changes the way teachers work and improves the quality of their teaching. When teaching becomes a real profession, they contend, more academically able people will be drawn into it, colleges will be forced to improve the quality of their education, and better-prepared teachers will enter the classroom and improve the profession.

Author : Helen Elizabeth Stokes,Tom Brunzell,Judith Howard
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9782832533543

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Trauma-informed education by Helen Elizabeth Stokes,Tom Brunzell,Judith Howard Pdf

Author : James H. Stronge,Christopher R. Gareis,Catherine A. Little
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Teacher effectiveness
ISBN : 174330689X

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Teacher Pay and Teacher Quality by James H. Stronge,Christopher R. Gareis,Catherine A. Little Pdf

While many working in the teaching profession cite intangible rewards as reasons for staying in the profession, concrete rewards such as salary, benefits, and working conditions are inextricably linked to recruiting, motivating, and retaining highly qualified teachers.