Why Half Of Teachers Leave The Classroom

Author : Carol R. Rinke
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475801699

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Why Half of Teachers Leave the Classroom by Carol R. Rinke Pdf

The statistics are familiar: almost 50% of new teachers leave the profession within their first five years in the classroom. The challenge of recruiting and retaining teachers carries high costs for today’s schools and students. This book uncovers some of the reasons behind the elevated attrition rates in the field of education through a long-term study of beginning teachers in one urban school district. Drawing upon research conducted over a seven-year period, this book sheds light upon the role that teachers’ intentions play in shaping their later career paths. It also shares the deeply personal and professional journeys of teachers who stayed, teachers who shifted into education-related positions, and teachers who left the field altogether. Through eight in-depth case studies, this book clarifies the factors influencing teachers’ career paths and depicts the toll that teacher attrition takes on the teachers themselves. Finally, it makes an argument for placing teachers’ voices clearly at their center of their own career development as a way to enhance autonomy, satisfaction, and ultimately career longevity.

Author : Linda Darling-Hammond
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807770627

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The Flat World and Education by Linda Darling-Hammond Pdf

Argues that the education system in America needs to make drastic changes in order to build a system of high-achieving and equitable schools that protects every child's right to learn.

Author : Tanya Ovenden-Hope,Rowena Passy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 43,9 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 : Dana Goldstein
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780345803627

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The Teacher Wars by Dana Goldstein Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education that brings the lessons of the past to bear on the dilemmas we face today—and brilliantly illuminates the path forward for public schools. “[A] lively account." —New York Times Book Review In The Teacher Wars, a rich, lively, and unprecedented history of public school teaching, Dana Goldstein reveals that teachers have been embattled for nearly two centuries. She uncovers the surprising roots of hot button issues, from teacher tenure to charter schools, and finds that recent popular ideas to improve schools—instituting merit pay, evaluating teachers by student test scores, ranking and firing veteran teachers, and recruiting “elite” graduates to teach—are all approaches that have been tried in the past without producing widespread change.

Author : Mary C. Clement
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475843514

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What Successful Teachers Do by Mary C. Clement Pdf

New teachers will follow 12 steps to become established in their classrooms, while experienced teachers will get great ideas from each chapter.This book guides teachers to build support networks. Unlike any other book on the market, it combines research-based strategies with the author’s heartfelt stories of teaching.

Author : Carol R. Rinke,Lynnette Mawhinney
Publisher : IAP
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781641136617

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Opportunities and Challenges in Teacher Recruitment and Retention by Carol R. Rinke,Lynnette Mawhinney Pdf

Opportunities and Challenges in Teacher Recruitment and Retention serves as a comprehensive resource for understanding teachers’ careers across the professional lifespan. Grounded in the notion that teachers’ voices are essential for understanding teachers’ lives, this edited volume contains chapters that privilege the voices of teachers above all. Book sections look closely at the particular issues that arise when recruiting an effective, committed, and diverse workforce, as well as the challenges that arise once teachers are immersed in the classroom setting. Promising directions are also included for particularly high-need areas such as early childhood teachers, Black male teachers, STEM teachers, and urban teachers. The book concludes with a call for self-care in teachers’ lives. Chapter contributions come from a variety of contexts across the United States and around the world. However, regardless of context or methodology, these chapters point to the importance of valuing and respecting teachers’ lives and work. Moreover, they demonstrate that teacher recruitment and retention is a complex and multifaceted issue that cannot be addressed through simplistic policy changes. Rather, attending to and appreciating the web of influences on teachers lives and careers is the only way to support their work and the impact they have on our next generation of students.

Author : Meg Maguire,Simon Gibbons,Melissa Glackin,David Pepper,Karen Skilling
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335243266

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EBOOK: Becoming a Teacher: Issues in Secondary Education by Meg Maguire,Simon Gibbons,Melissa Glackin,David Pepper,Karen Skilling Pdf

Becoming a Teacher provides a broad context for understanding education, addressing issues such as the influence of international policy and practice, education ideology and social justice. This is balanced with practical advice for the classroom on topics such as assessment for learning, learning technologies, literacy, numeracy and English as an additional language. Becoming a Teacher draws extensively on contemporary research and empirical evidence to support critical reflection about learning and teaching. Encouraging you to reflect on your knowledge and beliefs, it explores some of the complex social and cultural influences that influence professional learning and practice. The approach chimes with the government’s recognition that trainee teachers should take a research-informed approach towards classroom practice. The fifth edition is refreshed and revitalized throughout, with: • a complete revision of each chapter • new chapters on 'Reforming ITE', 'Teachers Lives and Careers', 'International Influences', 'Engagement and Motivation', ‘Learning and the Emotions', 'Data Usage in Schools', 'Safeguarding' and 'Learning with Digital Technologies' • up-to-date referencing of research findings • insightful policy analysis • critical commentary on issues For those training to teach in secondary school on a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) or a School Direct programme, or taking an undergraduate or postgraduate Education Studies course, Becoming a Teacher provides invaluable support, insight and guidance. “With every new edition this book confirms its place as one of the most commanding, authoritative and influential texts in teacher education”. Meg Maguire's leadership of this new editorial team means that this book remains my umbilical cord to those pivotal principals that I cherish in education: integrity, passion, critical engagement and transformation.” Gerry Czerniawski, Professor of Education, University of East London, UK “An excellent contribution to the Teacher Education and development literature”. “Many of the authors are leading thinkers in their field and as such the book offers a significant breadth, depth and coherence to the teacher development discourse.” Professor David Spendlove, School of Environment, Education and Development, The University of Manchester, UK

Author : Lynnette Mawhinney,Carol R. Rinke
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780813595276

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There Has to Be a Better Way by Lynnette Mawhinney,Carol R. Rinke Pdf

There Has to be a Better Way offers an essential voice in understanding the dynamics of teacher attrition from the perspective of the teachers themselves. Drawing upon in-depth qualitative research with former teachers, the authors identify several themes that uncover the rarely-spoken reasons why teachers so often willingly leave the classroom.

Author : Mary C. Clement
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475828399

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Retaining Effective Teachers by Mary C. Clement Pdf

This book presents a common-sense approach for making district and school retention plans that will retain the most effective teachers needed in today’s – and tomorrow’s – schools. The strategies outlined in the book create help to create schools as high-quality workplaces that will retain teachers.

Author : Katy Farber
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781632201881

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Why Great Teachers Quit and How We Might Stop the Exodus by Katy Farber Pdf

Learn why today’s best teachers are leaving—from the teachers themselves. Low pay, increased responsibilities, and high-stakes standardized testing—these are just some of the reasons why more talented teachers are leaving the profession than ever before. Drawing on in-depth interviews with teachers all over the country, Katy Farber presents an in-the-trenches view of the classroom exodus and uncovers ways that schools can turn the tide. Farber's findings, which have been featured on Education Talk Radio, Vermont Public Radio, and in the Huffington Post, paint a sometimes shocking picture of life in today's schools, taking a frank look at • Challenges to teacher endurance, including tight budgets, difficult parents, standardized testing, unsafe schools, inadequate pay, and lack of respect • Strategies veteran teachers use to make sure the joys of teaching outweigh the frustrations • Success stories from individual schools and districts that have found solutions to these challenges • Recommendations for creating a school environment that fosters teacher retention Featuring clear analysis and concrete suggestions for administrators and policy makers, Why Great Teachers Quit takes you to the front lines of the fight to keep great teachers where they belong: in the classroom.

Author : Anne Baffert,Sheila Tobias
Publisher : NSTA Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781936137763

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Science Teaching as a Profession: Why It Isn't. How It Could Be. by Anne Baffert,Sheila Tobias Pdf

Author : Alfred S. Alschuler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105031583482

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Teacher Burnout by Alfred S. Alschuler Pdf

This booklet presents articles that deal with identifying signs of stress and methods of reducing work-related stressors. An introductory article gives a summary of the causes, consequences, and cures of teacher stress and burnout. In articles on recognizing signs of stress, "Type A" and "Type B" personalities are examined, with implications for stressful behavior related to each type, and a case history of a teacher who was beaten by a student is given. Methods of overcoming job-related stress are suggested in eight articles: (1) "How Some Teachers Avoid Burnout"; (2) "The Nibble Method of Overcoming Stress"; (3) "Twenty Ways I Save Time"; (4) "How To Bring Forth The Relaxation Response"; (5) "How To Draw Vitality From Stress"; (6) "Six Steps to a Positive Addiction"; (7)"Positive Denial: The Case For Not Facing Reality"; and (8) "Conquering Common Stressors". A workshop guide is offered for reducing and preventing teacher burnout by establishing support groups, reducing stressors, changing perceptions of stressors, and improving coping abilities. Workshop roles of initiator, facilitator, and members are discussed. An annotated bibliography of twelve books about stress is included. (FG)

Author : Amanda Pierce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 099942145X

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Blue Moon Bassoon by Amanda Pierce Pdf

The Blue Moon Bassoon Songbook is a collection of diverse folk and classical melodies arranged for bassoon. With a wide variety of styles and familiar pieces, this book will take the beginning bassoonist from their first notes to their first orchestral excerpts. Arranged and designed by a professional bassoonist, each chapter builds essential techniques with tips and tricks throughout.

Author : Jonathan Kozol
Publisher : Crown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780307405708

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Letters to a Young Teacher by Jonathan Kozol Pdf

“This remarkable book is a testament to teachers who not only respect and advocate for children on a daily basis but who are the necessary guardians of the spirit. Every citizen who cares about the future of our children ought to read this.”—Eric Carle, author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and other classic works for children “Kozol’s love for his students is as joyful and genuine as his critiques of the system are severe. He doesn’t pull punches.”—The Washington Post In these affectionate letters to Francesca, a first grade teacher at an inner-city school in Boston, Jonathan Kozol vividly describes his repeated visits to her classroom while, under Francesca’s likably irreverent questioning, he also reveals his own most personal stories of the years that he has spent in public schools. Letters to a Young Teacher reignites a number of the controversial issues Jonathan has powerfully addressed in his bestselling The Shame of the Nation and On Being a Teacher: the mania of high-stakes testing that turns many classrooms into test-prep factories where spontaneity and critical intelligence are no longer valued, the invasion of our public schools by predatory private corporations, and the inequalities of urban schools that are once again almost as segregated as they were a century ago. But most of all, these letters are rich with the happiness of teaching children, the curiosity and jubilant excitement children bring into the classroom at an early age, and their ability to overcome their insecurities when they are in the hands of an adoring and hard-working teacher.

Author : Charlotte Woolley
Publisher : John Catt
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781398383784

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The Lost Girls: Why a feminist revolution in education benefits everyone by Charlotte Woolley Pdf

Life for girls is a battle of contrasting expectations, being told you should be 'empowered' but also be a 'good girl', putting others first but still striving for perfection yourself. This conflict, internalizing expectations of an impossible standard, has lead to an explosion in mental-health and anxiety-related disorders in young women. The traditional narrative of education feeds the perception that girls are good. They achieve, work hard, are co-operative. They achieve better grades. But where do these high achievers disappear to? They aren't becoming CEOs, politicians or social leaders. Women are still disproportionately the family carers and domestic managers. This book explores: * research around biological difference, and how our schools encode gendered expectations. * how our curricula can provide role-models as well as modes of thinking, valuing traditionally feminine traits as equal to masculine * using psychological approaches to develop girls' independence. * how school systems and leadership can model approaches to encourage all students to create a gender-balanced environment. With practical questions and suggestions at the end of each chapter, this book is a guide to the research and a tool to help teachers and leaders shape a genuinely empowering school experience for young women.