Sentences with phrase «attracting teacher applicants»

Back in August, Urban Milwaukee did a story documenting the growing teacher shortage in Wisconsin, which found many school districts were having trouble attracting teacher applicants and many universities were seeing a decline in education majors, led by UW - Milwaukee, with a 23 percent decline.

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If our major policy focus is to improve student achievement by improving teacher effectiveness — accounting for 30 per cent of the variance in student achievement — we must attract higher - quality applicants to the teaching profession, improve our teacher education institutions and courses, esteem and grow those teachers who demonstrate expert potential, and mandate teacher development programs for less effective teachers.

«Once teaching became a high - status profession, more talented people became teachers, lifting the status of the profession even higher... Where the profession has a low status, it attracts less talented applicants, pushing the status of the profession down further and, with it, the calibre of people it is able to attract.»

Had they not let data guide their strategy, DPS and charter leaders might have spent huge amounts of money to attract more teacher applicants, even though they already had more than enough.

Providing scholarships, special low - interest home loans, low - cost rental housing, moving expenses, and free graduate courses if one teaches in areas that attract few applicants is how Mississippi has tried to attract teachers.

Further education reforms will be hampered by low teacher quality as long as the salaries of teachers do not rise to a competitive level — the level that would attract many high - quality applicants.

Former Education Secretary Michael Gove had hoped to attract 2,000 applicants to the # 4.3 m Troops to Teachers scheme.

While it's no secret that the best educators help students reach their potential, attracting top teaching talent means school leaders should understand what teachers are looking for throughout their entire applicant experience.

Teach for America is a very selective program that accepted only 15 percent of applicants last year, but choosing those prospective teachers whose students will perform consistently better on tests than other teachers» students has proven a challenge for the group, which is now having some trouble attracting new teachers as well.