Sentences with phrase «existing teacher workforce»

Many educators, policymakers, and other stakeholders worry that increasing selectivity may lead to a less racially diverse teacher workforce, as minority candidates generally score lower on many of the current selectivity metrics used by teacher preparation programs.14 Others maintain that the diversity gap will only continue to grow in the decades to come, even with a focus on the recruitment and retention of the current generation of prospective teachers.15 Instead, those skeptical of the United States» ability to attain both goals offer solutions such as increased cultural competency among the existing teacher workforce to inspire and encourage a more diverse generation of future educators.16

For the existing teacher workforce, we are providing funding to a number of initiatives to support your ongoing professional learning.

There are also important changes occurring in the demand for teachers, the nature of the existing teacher workforce, and the cohort of students being prepared to become teachers.

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Conference is aware that: (i) teachers are increasingly leaving state - funded schools before they reach retirement; (ii) unrealistic targets, workload, league tables, micro-management and inspection are some of the barriers to teacher retention and (iii) governments» interventions to support and retain the existing teaching workforce have been inadequate.

As Ingersoll notes, our teacher workforce was «graying» for most of the last 25 years, driven both by existing teachers aging into the profession and an increase in the hiring of older «new» teachers.

A primary channel through which principals can be expected to improve the quality of education is by raising the quality of teachers, either by improving the instruction provided by existing teachers or through teacher transitions that improve the caliber of the school's workforce.

The Kansas City and St. Louis teacher pension plans are set up for a workforce that doesn't exist.

Our white paper, Resourcing the Performance Agenda in Schools and Multi-Academy Trusts, offers recommendations and practical guidance for schools, academies and MATs, to better understand their workforces, to motivate and retain existing staff, and to adopt new thinking and innovative approaches to attract the very best teachers.

In order to keep the teachers we recruit, we need to raise the status of the profession to its rightful position and promote wellbeing in the job to unlock the creativity, passion and discretionary effort that undoubtedly exists in the teaching workforce.

Policymakers, educational leaders and advocates are working to develop innovative strategies and approaches to retain existing teachers and to attract the next generation of the workforce.

Identify teachers in their existing workforce who speak more than one language, and who are willing to transition to bilingual classrooms.