Opportunities and Challenges in Teacher Recruitment and Retention

Opportunities and Challenges in Teacher Recruitment and Retention
Author: Carol R. Rinke
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2019-05-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1641136618

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.

Why Half of Teachers Leave the Classroom

Why Half of Teachers Leave the Classroom
Author: Carol R. Rinke
Publisher: R&L Education
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2014-02-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1475801696

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.

Exploring Teacher Recruitment and Retention

Exploring Teacher Recruitment and Retention
Author: Tanya Ovenden-Hope
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2020-10-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0429556950

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.

Improving Student Retention in Higher Education

Improving Student Retention in Higher Education
Author: Glenda Crosling
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2008-11-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134149778

Underpinned by research this book provides best practice examples of innovative and inclusive curriculum designined to improve student retention in HE.

Teacher Recruitment and Retention

Teacher Recruitment and Retention
Author: Jill Nyhus
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-02-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9780578649955

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.

Student Retention and Success in Higher Education

Student Retention and Success in Higher Education
Author: Mahsood Shah
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2021-09-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030800458

This book draws together international research to assess the quality of successful efforts to retain students. The editors and contributors unite diverse global research from countries who have led student retention and success projects at national, institutional, faculty or program level with positive outcomes. The book is underpinned by the philosophy that a more diverse student population requires higher education institutions to fundamentally change, in order to facilitate the success of all students. All of humanity, its economies and societies, are being pummelled by waves of pandemic-induced crises in tandem with globalisation and demographic shifts. Ultimately, this book acts as a clarion to higher education institutions to better support and retain their students, in order to create a more stable learning environment.

Collaborative Approaches to Recruiting, Preparing, and Retaining Teachers for the Field

Collaborative Approaches to Recruiting, Preparing, and Retaining Teachers for the Field
Author: Vicki Luther
Publisher:
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2021
Genre: Mentoring in education
ISBN:

This book provides a collection of theoretical, application, and research-based information regarding a variety of viewpoints and strategies that educator preparation program (EPP) faculty, educational leadership faculty, P-12 general and special education teachers, administrators, and related service providers must be cognizant of in order to meet the varied and individualized needs of novice teachers so that the academic, behavioral, and/or social emotional needs of their students are effectively supported.

Teaching for God's Glory

Teaching for God's Glory
Author: Tyler Harms
Publisher: Elm Hill
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2020-02-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1400327490

Congratulations! You may have just finished up your student-teaching and landed your first teaching position. You begin to think about your first year with your new students. Student teaching was a great experience, but now you may be searching for answers of how to get started running your own classroom. This practical and inspirational daily guide for teachers was comprised over many years and through interviews of teachers at all grade levels. The collective years of teaching experience interviewed was over 500 years of experience from K-12 educators both in private and public schools across the country! Teaching for God’s Glory is a daily walk with the new teacher to help the new educator plan for their first years of teaching. The first section, Before the School Year Begins, gives practical advice on ways to set up your classroom, communication with parents and students, as well as orienting yourself with your new surroundings. The rest of the year is divided into quarters of the year with applicable and inspiring advice and wisdom that new teachers can use right away in their classrooms. At the end of each school week, there is a place for reflection on what worked well that week, areas for growth, and prayer requests for you or your students. This book makes the perfect gift for those starting their own career in education. Years later, they will be able to look back and reflect on how much they have grown in their craft! Tyler Harms has over a decade of experience serving students and families at the elementary and secondary levels. He graduated from Calvin College with a BA in Education and went on to get two Master’s Degrees in Special Education and Mathematics. Tyler spent many hours interviewing master teachers across the country and reflecting on his own journey as an educator. Teaching for God’s Glory is the book we all wish we had read in college before becoming a teacher. The book gives practical advice and inspiration to those who are in the trenches each day educating our future leaders.

Responsive Teaching

Responsive Teaching
Author: Harry Fletcher-Wood
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2018-05-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351583867

This essential guide helps teachers refine their approach to fundamental challenges in the classroom. Based on research from cognitive science and formative assessment, it ensures teachers can offer all students the support and challenge they need – and can do so sustainably. Written by an experienced teacher and teacher educator, the book balances evidence-informed principles and practical suggestions. It contains: A detailed exploration of six core problems that all teachers face in planning lessons, assessing learning and responding to students Effective practical strategies to address each of these problems across a range of subjects Useful examples of each strategy in practice and accounts from teachers already using these approaches Checklists to apply each principle successfully and advice tailored to teachers with specific responsibilities. This innovative book is a valuable resource for new and experienced teachers alike who wish to become more responsive teachers. It offers the evidence, practical strategies and supportive advice needed to make sustainable, worthwhile changes.

Establishing a Lasting Legacy

Establishing a Lasting Legacy
Author: Becky Evers-Gerdes
Publisher: Solution Tree Press
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2021-10-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 195281216X

Grow as an authentic leader and retain great teachers with Establishing a Lasting Legacy. Built on foundational leadership principles, this book offers practical tools and suggestions that will enhance what you are already doing and recharge your efforts toward making a long-lasting impact on those you serve. Learn how to develop teacher self-efficacy, address retention problems, build positive relationships, and more. Understand why there is a teacher retention problem and ways to provide needed support to educators. Learn how to grow your own leadership skills as well as how to build collective efficacy schoolwide. Discover how to increase transparency, self-efficacy, and trust with staff. Receive reflection questions, prompts, and templates to deepen learning and understanding of the material. Study vignettes, examples, and advice from experienced educators. Contents: Introduction: What Will Be Your Legacy? Chapter 1: Lead Authentically Chapter 2: Develop Teacher Self-Efficacy Chapter 3: Build a School of Collective Efficacy Chapter 4: Build and Rebuild Trust Chapter 5: Listen to Your People Chapter 6: Develop a Shared Vision Conclusion References and Resources Index