The phrase
"teacher attrition" means the rate at which teachers leave or quit their jobs.
Full definition
High
teacher attrition rates have been a persistent problem in American education and contribute to low morale and poor student performance, according to studies.
So far, the state program has had impressive results:
Teacher attrition in the state master teachers program is a mere 2 percent.
Principals tend to be weaker in high - poverty, low - achieving schools, where principal quality can have an even greater bearing
on teacher attrition.
The report includes state - by - state
teacher attrition costs, says comprehensive induction programs can improve teaching effectiveness and retain high - quality teachers.
Currently, a variety of issues, characteristics, and other factors have been investigated as possible reasons
for teacher attrition.
The deeper, longer recession after the financial meltdown in 2007 - 9 appears related to even
lower teacher attrition rates.
When I asked
about teacher attrition, I was told that teachers seldom leave teaching; it's a great job, and they are highly respected.
Private school teachers express more satisfaction with their working conditions,
although teacher attrition is higher in private schools.
New teacher attrition is a serious problem, with some studies estimating that 50 percent of teachers leave the profession within their first few years.
The effects of performance pay are likely to be most damaging in our highest - need schools, which already suffer from the
greatest teacher attrition rates.
Not surprisingly, then, principal quality
influences teacher attrition even more in schools with large proportions of low - income and minority students.
Similar work has found that screening performance
predicts teacher attrition, so we were a little surprised there was not a significant relationship with retention in our study.
Teacher demand is on the rise, as a function of changes in student enrollment, shifts in pupil - teacher ratios, and most significantly, high levels
of teacher attrition.
«Being unprepared» to meet the needs of students continues to be a frequently cited reason
for teacher attrition.
But, in thinking
about teacher attrition, I realized something: we would not really want all teachers to stay in the profession until retirement.
These final two reasons — pursuit of another job and dissatisfaction — together play a major role in about two - thirds of all
beginning teacher attrition.
As in North Carolina, there was no apparent jump in
teacher attrition at the tenure decision point in Florida.
Shortages in many fields and locations across the state have been provoked by a steep decline in candidates preparing to teach, coupled with an increase in demand fueled largely
by teacher attrition and schools» reinstatement of previously cut staff positions.
Springfield Public Schools in Missouri, the author notes, had a serious
teacher attrition problem: 70 percent of new teachers who started teaching there had left by the end of their third year.
And when Kansas school officials found they could reduce new
teacher attrition if teacher candidates had more in - class experiences with master teachers before stepping in front of their own classes, Wichita State offered education majors the option of spending ten to fifteen hours a week for two years in schools rather than the traditional one semester.
National data indicate that the public
school teacher attrition rate of 7.68 % in 2012 represented a loss of 238,000 teachers in that year, Calculated by taking the total number of FTE teachers in 2011 — 12 and multiplying it by the 2011 — 12 attrition rate.
From 2009 to 2014, program enrollment plummeted by more than a third
while teacher attrition has remained relatively high, according to the Learning Policy Institute.
Report Includes State - by -
State Teacher Attrition Costs, Says Comprehensive Induction Programs Can Improve Teaching Effectiveness and Retain High - Quality Teachers
By
comparing teacher attrition and performance on each side of the performance cutoffs, we can get a better sense of how the threat of dismissal or prospect of a raise affects teachers» behavior.
First, although
teacher attrition goes up and down somewhat year - to - year, it was nearly identical in 2013 - 14 as it was in 2001 - 2 and 2005 - 6.
Research conducted by the University of Pennsylvania's Richard Ingersoll, among others, shows that general working conditions, the degree to which teachers have classroom autonomy, and other non-monetary factors are at least as important a consideration as salaries in
explaining teacher attrition.
Lest you think I'm cherry - picking numbers or the D.C. pension assumptions aren't applicable elsewhere, take a look at New York City's
actual teacher attrition rate.
Mentors help
prevent teacher attrition and improve job satisfaction — and there's new evidence that they can boost student learning too.
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