Stopping The Brain Drain Of Skilled Veteran Teachers

Author : William L. Fibkins
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781610483360

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Stopping the Brain Drain of Skilled Veteran Teachers by William L. Fibkins Pdf

Veteran educators are being encouraged to take early retirement in order to create jobs for less-experienced, lower-paid novices. Veteran educators are not alone: early retirement promotions have become the norm for aging workers in America. Consequently, there is a brain-drain of skilled workers at the national, state, and local levels. The early retirement of our most talented veteran educators is leaving our schools without the necessary leadership, hard-earned experience, proven skills, and wisdom to meet the evolving challenges our country faces. Indeed, there are long-term consequences of losing skilled educators while they are in the prime of their professional lives. Addressing these concerns, this book challenges the "good news only" theory of early retirement promotions which suggest that veteran educators are no longer needed as they age and that their retirement is the only way schools can survive financially in times of economic uncertainty. This theory contends that everyone involved gets a reward: the novice educators get jobs and the veterans get some cash. This trade is seemingly no problem, until the veteran educators are out the door and the school staff, students, and parents are left without their steady guiding hands. Instead of hastily luring prime educators out the schoolhouse door with planned buyout promotions, schools should offer our most gifted veteran educators career alternatives that will encourage and reward them to remain on board, thereby allowing them to lead novice and mid-career staff, students, parents, and community members. Examining the negative consequences of early retirement promotions on school culture, administrative leadership, teacher and student performance, community reaction, Stopping the Brain Drain of Skilled Veteran Teachers will not only expose some of the major drawbacks of early buyouts of veteran educators, but will also suggest creative career alternative to keep such teachers on board.

Author : William L. Fibkins
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781610485951

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Angel Teachers by William L. Fibkins Pdf

We know teenagers face many developmental issues as they navigate their path into adult life. They sometimes find themselves heading towards the margins of school life because of academic failure, poor peer relations, acting out behaviors, school and home pressures. Problems that often lead to risky behaviors behavior with drugs, alcohol, and tobacco addictions that in the end only complicate their young lives and offer them little relief. They need help, support, and guidance from caring and experienced adults who can help them redirect their lives. However " help" as it is organized in our large high schools, junior high schools, and middle schools is usually centered on a few overworked guidance counselors, social workers, and school psychologist who are increasingly finding themselves losing staff due to budget cuts. As a result school communities find themselves in a no-win situation in which the needs and problems of teenagers are the rise while the core of designated helpers in the school organization is being decimated or forced to abandon their helping and counseling role to take on administrative duties because of cuts in the administrative staff. This we know It is the new reality in our secondary schools. However there is a glimmer of hope in this dire scenario. It has given rise to the need for caring and experienced teachers to be given the green light to open their doors to kids in need. No, as any wise educator knows ,this is not a new role for teachers who see their role as not only an academic teacher but a personal adviser as well. They are what I call " angel teachers." Educators who care about kids well being. One can find these angel teachers in most secondary schools. They carry on their intervention with students in a quiet, trusting, private manner with little interest in notoriety or stardom. In fact that's why kids in need are attracted to them and lineup outside their door. Kids know these caring teachers can deliver the kind of help they need. Their savvy and know the drill of how help works for kids in need. But the valuable helping role of these angel teachers has often gone unheralded because the designated helpers in the school have been anointed, with that role. But today's circumstances call for change if our schools are to meet the need personal and well being needs of their students. We need to examine the role of these angel teachers and make the case that they are now needed to take a primary role in the schools intervention efforts. This book will explore how they arrive at this role, their skills, how they help kids and how they avoid becoming saviors, self-promoters, and in the helping process for their own self-esteem

Author : Lawanna Lewis
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780578122830

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Inflammable: Teachers on Fire! by Lawanna Lewis Pdf

Inflammable is a strategy driven book to raise awareness of a growing problem in schools known as "Principal Bullying." The book provides strategies and suggestions to teachers to increase their stamina in the teaching profession so that they do not lose sight of their purpose.

Author : Terri L. Rodriguez,Heidi L. Hallman,Kristen Pastore-Capuana
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475852097

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Invested Stayers by Terri L. Rodriguez,Heidi L. Hallman,Kristen Pastore-Capuana Pdf

Invested Stayers: How Teachers Thrive in Challenging Times features chapters co-authored by PK-12 teachers and postsecondary teacher educators from across the U.S. that reflect how they persist, remain, and thrive in the teaching profession. Premised on the idea that co-authors are colleagues and mentors to each other, this book conceptualizes contributors as invested stayers in the education profession. Chapters feature how particular catalysts, or landmark changes in education, have been productive sites for growth, agency, and even resistance across the arc of contributors’ professional lives. The book recognizes that teacher educators and teachers persist because of multiple and overlapping factors between our professional and personal lives, including the relationships we develop with each other as colleagues and mentors in our professional learning. In the public sphere, PK-12 educators increasingly face challenges that limit their ability to initiate their own professional learning. In this book, we considered what might occur if educators had space and time to write together and reflect on how they’ve persisted. These authors narrate themselves as invested stayers who invite personal and professional growth through inquiry, creativity, and innovation.

Author : William L. Fibkins
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475807202

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The Emotional Growth of Teens by William L. Fibkins Pdf

This book is designed as a nuts and bolts guide for school counselors. Fibkins highlights for secondary school counselors the "how’s" and "why’s" for using group counseling intervention to help the increasing numbers of troubled teenagers. Group counseling intervention is ideally suited to reach many more students than one-on-one counseling, and it offers busy counselors a positive way to maximize their outreach services. This book contains specific steps in developing a successful group program that comes to the aid of troubled teens and, in the process, helps create a school environment where students can learn, teachers can teach, administrators can lead, and parents can learn how to better help their children.

Author : William L. Fibkins
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475800135

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Class Warfare by William L. Fibkins Pdf

With budget cuts looming every year, administrators and union leaders find themselves in a never-ending game of promoting how good their school is and why budget cuts will derail their ongoing success. The vehicle they choose for this ongoing self-promotion is what William Fibkins calls the "dazzle" approach, which focuses only on "good news." Overtime administrators and staff often come to believe the positive reviews of the good news process and overlook or abandon those students who don't make good news but instead act out, fail, cause trouble and give the school a bad name. These are the "bad news" kids, and their lives are not newsworthy. This book is about the unintended consequences that can occur when the "good news" process becomes heavily embedded in school life -- a process that creates two different worlds in a school community that often prides itself on fostering unity and belonging. The school media promotions may say "All is well here," but this positive spin belies the divisions that breed isolation and estrangement for both the "good news" and "bad news" kids, which gives rise to class warfare in the school community. In a culture in which some students are valued as more worthy than others, being a more worthy student can have a serious downside that is as risky as being an unworthy student. This book explores these often hidden consequences and what school and community leaders need to do to right this sinking ship - a ship that seems sturdy and well-built to onlookers but is abusing its crew to keep afloat. Some schools operate on a system which uses high achieving students as a commodity to pass school budgets and downplays the cries of troubled students to be included in "their" school. Good news gets headlines while bad news is shifted to the back page or left out, resulting in an "all is well, problem-free" picture of the school.

Author : Emily Davis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475804119

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Making Mentoring Work by Emily Davis Pdf

Making Mentoring Work is a practical guide for school leaders interested in beginning or enhancing their mentoring programs for new teachers. Readers can use the mentoring program rubric to pre-assess their program and then choose the chapters that correspond to areas of growth. Each chapter provides background research as well as practical steps and tools to make mentoring work in a school environment. At the end of each section, readers will find discussion guides that support program leaders in making the next steps; organizing conversations with stakeholders that will transform and streamline new teacher support programs; and increase new teacher retention and practice.

Author : Michele R. Pistone,John J. Hoeffner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015068810756

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Stepping Out of the Brain Drain by Michele R. Pistone,John J. Hoeffner Pdf

Stepping Out of the Brain Drain is an important contribution to the intensifying debate about highly skilled migration from developing to developed countries. Addressing the issue from the perspective of Catholic social thought, the authors demonstrate that both the economic and ethical rationales for the teaching's opposition to 'brain drain' have been undermined in recent years and show how the adoption of a less critical policy could provide enhanced opportunities for poor countries to accelerate their economic development.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1990-05
Category : South Africa
ISBN : UVA:X001773734

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South African Pressclips by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Israel
ISBN : UOM:39015020717156

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Israel Scene by Anonim Pdf

Author : Junaimah Binti Jauhar,Ahmad Bashawir Abdul Ghani,Rabiul Islam
Publisher : Springer
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811009778

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Brain Drain by Junaimah Binti Jauhar,Ahmad Bashawir Abdul Ghani,Rabiul Islam Pdf

This book focuses on skilled labour migration from Malaysia to Singapore. In this regard, it examines a number of variables such as Better Perks and Benefits, Quality of Work Life, Ease of Immigration Procedures, International Exposure, Greater Job Availability, and Social Networks, and how they influence the decisions of Malaysian accounting professionals.In doing so, the book elaborates on how this phenomenon is an indirect result of globalization, which is predominantly detrimental for developing countries such as Malaysia. The book also highlights the need for these experts in their home country, as Malaysia is currently striving to improve its economy in order to achieve high-income status by 2020.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005544601

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Trends in History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Patrick M. Jenlink
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475859188

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Understanding Teacher Identity by Patrick M. Jenlink Pdf

Understanding Teacher Identity: The Complexities of Forming an Identity as Professional Teacher introduces the reader to a collection of research-based works by authors that represent current research concerning the complexities of teacher identity and the role of teacher preparation programs in shaping the identity of teachers. Important to teacher preparation, as a profession, is a realization that the psychological, philosophical, theoretical, and pedagogical underpinnings of teacher identity have critical importance in shaping who the teacher is, and will continue to become in his/her practice. Teacher identity is an instrumental factor in teachers’ and the students’ success. Chapter One opens the book with a focus on the development of teacher identity, providing an introduction to the book and an understanding of the growing importance of identity in becoming a teacher. Chapters Two–Nine present field-based research that examines the complexities of teacher identity in teacher preparation and the importance of teacher identity in the teaching and learning experiences of the classroom. Finally, Chapter Ten presents an epilogue focusing on teacher identity and the importance, as teacher educators and practitioners, of making sense of who we are and how identity plays a critical role in the preparation and practice of teachers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Americans
ISBN : IND:32000013016961

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Amex-Canada by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1254 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : International Labour Conference
ISBN : CORNELL:31924054563204

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International Labor Conference by Anonim Pdf