The priority, Mydat argues, is as much to keep
existing teachers in the profession as it is to attracting people back.
Not exact matches
The General Teaching Council for England (GTC) was abolished
in 2012 and
in its place, the National College of Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) became responsible for administering the training of new and
existing teachers in England, and regulating the teaching
profession.
Incremental cultural change The relentlessly negative focus on
teacher stress drives new graduates into other
professions, exacerbating the localised
teacher shortages which already
exist and which are increasing, particularly
in the South East.
The Network of Teaching Excellence
in Computer Science provides training opportunities for both
existing teachers and those training for the
profession.
In this brief, the Hassels also call for a national commitment to reallocating other
existing and new spending to higher
teacher pay, which together with reach models can make teaching a six - figure
profession.
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.
John Cater, author of the report, commented: «There are worrying signs that the
profession is failing to attract enough entrants and failing to retain
existing teachers in sufficient numbers and with appropriate specialisms to deliver the revised curriculum to a rapidly increasing school - age population.
Standardised assessment leads to tedious and demoralising marking for
teachers, who
exist in a personalised and dynamic world and are thus abandoning the
profession in droves.
We don't see it as self - serving at all and we're working to drive changes that have been resisted for decades — both because the
existing salary schedules are inadequate for retaining accomplished
teachers and because we want to have the kinds of opportunities to control our compensation that are offered to our peers
in other
professions.
If new evaluation systems succeed
in identifying good
teachers, we might also expect them to elevate the
profession, encouraging more capable individuals to pursue teaching or
existing teachers to stick with it.
But given the disparities that
exist — particularly
in potential
teachers» performance on standardized tests — it is still important to be cautious about increasing cut scores for various entry points into the
profession.
Nonetheless, some differences
exist and these may become more than marked once the
teachers enter US classrooms and begin to practice the
profession they interrupted, often for many years, as they sought a social and economic footing
in this country.
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 workforc
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 workforc
in the job to unlock the creativity, passion and discretionary effort that undoubtedly
exists in the teaching workforc
in the teaching workforce.
Strategic Goals: Identify
teacher leaders to build the solutions necessary to change and strengthen the teaching
profession, and drive transformation
in schools, districts and states; and ask
teacher leaders to embrace and lead necessary reform change, such as changes to
existing structures and mindsets.
The unions are blaming cuts to support staff, the increasing number of
existing teachers leaving the
profession early, and the introduction of zero - hour contracts
in further and higher education as some of the key reasons for this fall.
Strategic Goals: Identify
teacher leaders to build the solutions necessary to change and strengthen the
profession, and drive transformation
in schools, districts and states; and ask
teacher leaders to embrace and lead necessary reform change, such as changes to
existing structures and mindsets.