Download or read book Teacher Turnover and Undersupply written by Venessa Ann Keesler and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Age of Teacher Shortages written by Ernest J. Zarra and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age of Teacher Shortages is a practical look at the reasons for teacher shortages in schools across America, and suggests solutions. These shortages are wide-reaching and becoming more extensive with each passing year. Although the bulk of the teacher shortages are within those which are state-trained and conventionally credentialed, private schools are also reeling under the pressure of insufficient staffing. Is there just a downturn in adults desiring to be in the teaching profession, or are there other elements at work? This book details elements within American culture that are causing teachers to leave the profession early. In addition to this attrition, the reasons less students are enrolling in programs other than traditional teacher education programs are also explored. Regardless the reasons for decreases in enrollment, the effect are negative upon states, school districts, and families across the United States. There are emergency efforts under way to address teacher shortages. Departments of education and local school districts are applying different certification and credentialing strategies to both attract and keep teachers employed. Many wonder what the overall, long-term effects of these new methods of employing teachers will be upon education in America. This book engages these questions, and more. In so doing, it provides a realistic look into the impacts of teacher shortages, alternative certifications, and causes of changes in twenty-first century American culture.

Download or read book Does Induction Help Reduce Teacher Turnover written by Matthew Andrews and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School districts across the United States are struggling to deal with teacher turnover, teacher attrition and the resulting teacher shortages. One content area of particular concern is Career and Technical Education, as this content area is facing turnover at an alarming rate. There are several effects due to teacher turnover and shortage on school districts and as a result, districts have been implementing induction programs to support new teachers. The purpose of this study was to understand the various ways induction supports teachers new to the profession. Induction has shown to be effective at supporting novice teachers and reducing teacher turnover and the effects which occur as a result of teacher turnover. Previous research focused on induction setup, induction efficacy, CTE teacher issues and the effects of teacher turnover. A qualitative case study was conducted to evaluate teacher perceptions about induction efficacy. Qualitative interviews were analyzed for patterns and themes as well as compared to prior studies. Results showed induction was effective at boosting teacher morale and also reducing teacher turnover. In addition, results also showed CTE teachers struggle due to a lack of access to support. A logical next step for this study would be to expand the research to multiple school sites and districts. School districts struggling with teacher turnover or filling positions due to teacher shortage would benefit from incorporating induction within their district, most notably for CTE teachers.

Download or read book The National Teacher Shortage Crisis Understanding Teacher Attrition and Turnover written by Lisa Roberts Carter and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book How Did We Get Here written by Henry Tran and published by IAP. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teacher attrition is endemic in education, creating teacher quantity and quality gaps across schools that are often stratified by region and racialized nuance (Cowan et al., 2016; Scafidi et al., 2017). This reality is starkly reflected in South Carolina. Not too long ago, on May 1, 2019, a sea of approximately 10,000 people, dressed in red, convened at the state capital in downtown Columbia, SC (Bowers, 2019b). This statewide teacher walkout was assembled to call for the improvement of teachers' working conditions and the learning conditions of their students. The gathering was the largest display of teacher activism in the history of South Carolina and reflected a trend in a larger wave of teacher walkouts that have rippled across the nation over the last five years. The crowd comprised teachers from across South Carolina, who walked out of their classrooms for the gathering, as well as numerous students, parents, university faculty, and other community members that rallied with teachers in solidarity. Undergirding this walkout and others that took hold across the country is a perennial and pervasive pattern of unfavorable teacher working conditions that have contributed to what some are calling a teacher shortage “crisis” (Chuck, 2019). We have focused our work specifically on the illustrative case of South Carolina, given the extreme teacher staffing challenges the state is facing. Across numerous metrics, the South Carolina teacher shortage has reached critical levels, influenced by teacher recruitment and retention challenges. For instance, the number of teacher education program completers has declined annually, dropping from 2,060 in 2014-15 to 1,642 in the 2018-19 school year. Meanwhile, the number of teachers leaving the teaching field has increased from 4,108.1 to 5,341.3 across that same period (CERRA, 2019). These trends are likely to continue as COVID-19 has put additional pressure on the already fragile teacher labor market. Some of the hardest-to-staff districts are often located in communities with the highest diversity and poverty. To prosper and progress, reformers and public stakeholders must have a vested interest in maintaining full classrooms and strengthening the teaching workforce. An important element of progress towards tackling these longstanding challenges is to gain a comprehensive understanding of the problem. While teacher shortages are occurring nationwide (Garcia & Weiss, 2019), how they manifest regionally is directly influenced by its localized historical context and the evolution of the teaching profession's reputation within a state. Thus, the impetus of this book is to use South Carolina as an illustrative example to discuss the context and evolution that has shaped the status of the teaching profession that has led to a boiling point of mass teacher shortages and the rise of historic teacher walkouts.

Download or read book Teacher Turnover written by Sharif Shakrani and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research studies have documented a strong link between perennial high rates of beginning teacher attrition and teacher shortages that impact teaching, especially in the major urban areas of the United States. It is widely concluded that one of the pivotal causes of inadequate school academic performance is a teacher shortage and the resulting inability of schools to adequately staff classrooms with qualified teachers. Analysis of national databases on school staffing reveals that many teachers leave teaching or transfer to more affluent schools. The students in the impacted classrooms lose the benefit of being taught by experienced teachers, and schools and districts must commit time and money to recruit and train replacements. Student achievement suffers in schools with high teacher turnover. Trapped in a cycle of teacher hiring and replacement, low-performing disadvantaged schools drain their districts of precious resources that could be better spent to improve teaching quality and student achievement. Improving beginning teachers' work environments, providing more professional development in areas that new teachers find most challenging and increasing support such as induction and mentoring are advocated as having a positive effect on new teacher retention rates. (Contains 2 figures.).

Download or read book Addressing the Teacher Shortage A Study of Factors Influencing Teacher Retention and Teacher Quality written by Diane S. M. Witt and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study was conducted to better understand the teacher shortage and to identify ways to address it. The approach for this study supports the view that the shortage is rooted in poor teacher retention rather than an insufficient supply of teachers. Too many teachers leave the classroom for reasons other than retirement. This premature exodus has tipped the supply-and-demand scale, causing schools to hire under qualified teachers.

Download or read book A Study of Variables that Influence Teacher Turnover in the Little Municipal School District written by Paula H. Stokes and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A teacher shortage is a recognized problem in research on public schools. Schools across the United States must hire and retain highly qualified teachers, but the literature indicates teachers with fewer than 3 years of experience are often leaving teaching, creating a possible teacher shortage of 4.2 million teachers by the year of 2016. Retaining teachers with less than 3 years of experience is a definite problem in the Little Municipal School District (LMSD). In response to the failure of the LMSD to retain teachers with less experience, a study was conducted to identify the variables effecting teacher turnover. Determining the reasons teachers leave LMSD and facing those issues can assist in addressing the conditions associated with teacher turnover. This study focused on variables teachers with 3 or fewer years of experience indicate as their reasons for leaving. These variables were compared to studies conducted by Veenman (1988), Ganser (1994), and Ingersoll (2003), leading authorities on teacher retention. The results of this research suggest that teachers with less experience are leaving the LMSD because of pressure to achieve higher state test scores, lack of motivated students, insufficient materials and supplies, heavy teaching loads, inadequate guidance and support, poor relations with principals and administrators, lack of classroom discipline, and the burden of clerical work. Recommendations for LMSD include adding four programs to the district: a district-wide mentoring program for less experienced teachers; a teacher–liaison to improve communications between new teachers and administrators; a yearly review of materials to keep classroom materials current; and an incentive program for students to motivate students to achieve. Recommendations for further research include more studies on why teachers remain in low turnover districts, and did teacher’s preparation (alternative vs. traditional) affect retention.

Download or read book Increasing Teacher Retention The Progress of Education Reform 2007 Volume 8 Number 6 written by Tricia Coulter and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue of "The Progress of Education Reform" highlights data and research on why teachers leave, how attrition affects teacher shortages across the nation and the importance of working conditions for student performance. It focuses on: (1) reasons for teacher turnover; (2) elements of working conditions related to teacher retention and student learning; and (3) the impact of teacher turnover on the teacher shortage crisis. It also includes links to additional resources on teacher attrition and teacher working conditions.

Download or read book Staffing for Curriculum Needs written by Ian Butterworth and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Recruitment Retention and the Minority Teacher Shortage CPRE Research Report RR 69 written by Richard M. Ingersoll and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines and compares the recruitment and retention of minority and White elementary and secondary teachers and attempts to empirically ground the debate over minority teacher shortages. The data we analyze are from the National Center for Education Statistics' nationally representative Schools and Staffing Survey and its longitudinal supplement, the Teacher Follow-up Survey. Our data analyses show that a gap continues to persist between the percentage of minority students and the percentage of minority teachers in the U.S. school system. But this gap is not due to a failure to recruit new minority teachers. Over the past two decades, the number of minority teachers has almost doubled, outpacing growth in both the number of White teachers and the number of minority students. Minority teachers are also overwhelmingly employed in public schools serving high-poverty, high-minority and urban communities. Hence, the data suggest that widespread efforts over the past several decades to recruit more minority teachers and employ them in hard-to-staff and disadvantaged schools have been very successful. This increase in the proportion of teachers who are minority is remarkable because the data also show that over the past two decades, turnover rates among minority teachers have been significantly higher than among White teachers. Moreover, though schools' demographic characteristics appear to be highly important to minority teachers' initial employment decisions, this does not appear to be the case for their later decisions to stay or depart. Neither a school's poverty-level student enrollment, a school's minority student enrollment, a school's proportion of minority teachers, nor whether the school was in an urban or suburban community was consistently or significantly related to the likelihood that minority teachers would stay or depart, after controlling for other background factors. In contrast, organizational conditions in schools were strongly related to minority teacher departures. Indeed, once organizational conditions are held constant, there was no significant difference in the rates of minority and White teacher turnover. The schools in which minority teachers have disproportionately been employed have had, on average, less positive organizational conditions than the schools where White teachers are more likely to work, resulting in disproportionate losses of minority teachers. The organizational conditions most strongly related to minority teacher turnover were the level of collective faculty decision-making influence and the degree of individual classroom autonomy held by teachers; these factors were more significant than were salary, professional development or classroom resources. Schools allowing more autonomy for teachers in regard to classroom issues and schools with higher levels of faculty input into school-wide decisions had far lower levels of turnover. (Contains 6 figures, 10 tables and 7 endnotes.) [Funding for this paper was provided by the Center for Educational Research in the Interest of Underserved Students, University of California, Santa Cruz and the Sally Hewlett and the Flora Family Foundation.].

Download or read book WHY THEY STAY CRITICAL FACTORS FOR TEACHER RETENTION written by Andrew B Keller and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My district in North Carolina is one of many across the country impacted by a shortage of teachers caused by attrition and fewer people entering the profession. Educational leaders must increase teacher retention to sufficiently staff their schools. Data on teacher turnover is largely based on surveys completed by exiting teachers. This study gathers perspectives from the teachers who stay, to better understand what has kept them in the profession. This approach proactively identified strategies to improve teacher job satisfaction to increase the number of teachers who remain at their current school. Q Methodology was used to determine the factors that are most important for job satisfaction to teachers at a comprehensive high school in central North Carolina. Two distinct factor groups emerged from the data: Monarchy High School, named due to the significance of site-based school leadership and Federation High School where collegial relationships with peers were central to remaining in the profession. Post-sort interviews provided insight to why teachers hold their beliefs. The findings of this study can be used by school leaders to develop a better understanding of how to intentionally design supportive working environments to increase teacher retention.

Download or read book Modeling Teacher Supply and Demand with Commentary written by Carolyn L. Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Teacher Attrition in the State of Kansas 2018 2019 written by Chanh Bao Lam and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One key determinant of the stability and the progress of an educational system is its teacher workforce. However, in the State of Kansas, teacher shortage has consistently been a problem over the past five years. As the state's task force on teacher vacancy and supply emphasized, teacher attrition had been and would continue to be a contributor to this shortage. Since teacher attrition is unique to each state, a study that specifically examines the turnover factors associated with Kansas teachers is now more than necessary. Using data from the Kansas Educator Data Collection System and the National Center for Educational Statistics, this study firstly examines the overall pattern of Kansas teacher attrition and the average patterns within a Kansas school, district, county, and region. Secondly, the study examines specific forms of teacher attrition including transferring among schools within the state, switching to a school out of the state, and leaving the teaching profession. Lastly, the study examines particular patterns of teacher attrition in specific Kansas's geographical regions, including the North East, North Central, North West, South East, South Central, and South West. Statistically significant results show that teachers' employment status, years of experience in the teaching profession and the current school districts, academic qualification, and Kansan education backgrounds are associated with their mobility decisions. Moreover, findings suggest that school' economic status and student body's characteristics are correlated to teacher attrition. Furthermore, external factors including salary and the unique characteristics of the local geographical region are found influential to teacher turnover. Deriving from the study's most robust findings, recommendations for teacher policies in Kansas are suggested.

Download or read book Teacher Attrition written by David Waltz Grissmer and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report develops a strategy for improving national and state forecasts of future teacher attrition rates. The authors (1) develop a theory of teacher attrition that accounts for the disparate reasons for attrition and explains the patterns of attrition unique to each life cycle and career stage; (2) selectively review existing literature on teacher attrition and present attrition patterns from several states in order to test hypotheses deriving from their theory; (3) review the data available to support improved attrition models and recommend ways to make better use of the data; and (4) identify sampling and data collection strategies that will improve the value of data collected in a future national survey of teachers.

Download or read book Teacher Shortage Causes and Remedies written by World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Why Half of Teachers Leave the Classroom written by Carol R. Rinke and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2014-02-02 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.