When I saw your estimates of how
much teacher turnover might be costing school districts, I was surprised.
Do you think school districts are aware how
much teacher turnover costs them?
Not exact matches
And there are large differences in
teacher retention rates between Colorado districts, meaning some have
much higher
turnover rates than others.
The short version:
Teacher turnover rates don't change all that
much over time, but we see higher
turnover during economic expansions than during recessions.
First, the average
teacher effectiveness will likely decrease, as
much higher employee
turnover will easily offset any potential effectiveness gains.
Teachers have an average
turnover rate
much lower than noncertificated employees, and higher average years of service.
In other words, schools with more veteran
teachers before the creation of the ERI program experienced
much larger changes in
teacher turnover and declines in
teacher experience when the program was implemented than schools with fewer such
teachers.
The
Teacher Follow - up Survey of the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS - TFS) provides data designed to examine teacher turnover, and it has a much larger sample, 706 former teachers currently working in nonteachin
Teacher Follow - up Survey of the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS - TFS) provides data designed to examine
teacher turnover, and it has a much larger sample, 706 former teachers currently working in nonteachin
teacher turnover, and it has a
much larger sample, 706 former
teachers currently working in nonteaching jobs.
Regardless of plan type or
teacher experience level, Oregon's
teacher turnover rates looked pretty
much identical to those in neighboring Washington State.
Teachers hired after 1996 had
much less reason to stick around, so theory would predict they'd have higher
turnover rates.
In those places, Greene's argument is exactly backward: Charter schools and their
teachers pay the same high employer and employee contribution rates as all other schools, but higher
turnover rates mean their
teachers will get
much less in return.
The nuance is
much more interesting, though, and it presents a far different story than just «
teacher turnover is bad» or «
teacher turnover is fine.»
Like other states, California sees
much higher
turnover in early - career
teachers than mid - or late - career
teachers.
Much to Shanker's dismay, the charter school movement went in a very different direction, becoming a vehicle for avoiding unions and reducing
teacher voice (and thereby increasing
teacher turnover).
For example, if
teachers are hired without having been fully prepared, the
much higher
turnover rates that result are costly in terms of both dollars spent on the replacement process and decreases in student achievement in high -
turnover schools.
Turnover for beginners — who leave at
much higher rates than other
teachers — is influenced by how well novices are prepared prior to entry and how well they are mentored in their first years on the job.
This relationship — which includes such factors as setting clear expectations, providing support and encouragement, and recognizing staff for a job well done — is
much larger in high - need schools, and, for the most effective principals, can even close the
teacher turnover gap with schools serving more advantaged students.Grissom, J. A. (2011).
Rather,
much disagreement and debate, in fact, still exist regarding whether inducing
teacher turnover will get «us» really anywhere in terms of school reform, as also related to how big (or small)
teachers» effects on students» measurable performance actually are as discussed prior.
Teachers are often lumped in with other public sector workers, but the
turnover rates of the teaching profession places them in a
much more volatile position than other state or local government positions.
Nationally, half of all new
teachers leave the profession within five years, and in urban schools, especially the
much - lauded «no excuses» charter schools,
turnover is often
much higher.
A 13 - year veteran
teacher from an underperforming public school in Oakland, where The Teaching Well is attempting to reverse the local 70 %
turnover rate highlights a standard
teacher response to norms: ``... [Leadership is] just pushing too
much at once... I can't get anything done because [they're] pushing for this thing to start and this thing to start and this thing to start.
Much of the disproportionately high rate of
teacher turnover in hard - to - staff schools serving high - poverty students can be attributed to a lack of quality induction programs for beginning
teachers, according to guidance released earlier this month.
For example, if
teachers are hired without having been fully prepared, the
much higher
turnover rates that result (from two to three times as high as for fully prepared teachersIngersoll, R., Merrill, L., & May, H. (2014).
Studies show that
teacher turnover is
much higher in the largely non-unionized charter sector than in regular public schools.
How
much of
teacher turnover can be attributed to programs like TFA?
In contrast, reducing
turnover rates among
teachers with 20 - 24 years of experience doesn't do
much.
While staff
turnover was
much higher for charter
teachers overall, elementary charter
teachers under the age of 30 were less likely to move than their counterparts in traditional elementary schools in Los Angeles.
Regardless of plan type or
teacher experience level, Oregon's
teacher turnover rates looked pretty
much identical to those in nieghboring Washington State.
The graph below isn't fine - grained enough to show the results for each state, but it does show that some states have
much steeper
teacher turnover rates than others.
They also emphasize that there is a very high
teacher turnover rate that means the
teachers do not learn the stated discipline policy and may not spend as
much time with kids who don't understand the lesson as they should (Glassdoor, 2017).