Increasing the number
of teachers entering the profession is one strategy for reducing the teacher shortage, but we also need to address the persistent problem of teacher turnover.
The review includes recommendations for programs to make changes to improve the quality
of teachers entering the profession and highlights exemplary programs for states and institutions to examine.
Many teachers enter the profession with a fantastic sense of drive and purpose within their vocation, but find that this motivation diminishes over time as a result of changing working conditions and expectations.
According to Profile of Teachers in the U.S. 2011, a report from of the National Center for Education Information, 16 % of the nation's public
school teachers entered the profession through an alternate route like the one Cruzan followed.
Teachers entering the profession during recessions — and those entering when unemployment rates were high — were significantly more effective in raising student test scores than teachers entering at other times.
Presenter: John Foster, NOCTI The NRCCTE is developing two professional development models focused on improving secondary CTE that address:
supporting teachers entering the profession through alternative routes and the use of technical assessment data to drive instructional improvement and student achievement.
By Ellen Moir — Even though new
teachers enter the profession full of optimism and passion, one in five quit before they even hit their stride in classroom effectiveness.
The NAO found that 53 per cent of the 44,900 full
time teachers entering the profession in 2014 were newly qualified, with the remainder either returning to teaching after a break or moving into the state - funded sector from elsewhere.
That said, on the flip side, many young
teachers entering the profession seem to be in a rush to get into leadership positions and almost can't wait to move onto the next step of their career ladder.
Finally, some states, such as Tennessee and Louisiana, have begun tracking the value - added scores and teacher evaluations of
teachers entering the profession from different institutions.
The latest school workforce census data shows that the rate of
qualified teachers entering the profession fell to its lowest level since 2011 in 2016, and that the number of teachers without qualified teacher status rose by seven per cent between 2015 and 2016.
Richard Ingersoll, an education professor and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, says large - scale teacher recruitment campaigns that began in the 1980s succeeded in doubling the number of
non-white teachers entering the profession.
Moreover, even though
most teachers enter the profession for noble reasons and with great enthusiasm, many of those in urban schools know little about their students and find it hard to reach them.
The rate at which
new teachers enter the profession has been falling since 2013, and although new teachers still outnumber those who leave the profession, the gap has narrowed substantially in recent years.
When No Child Left Behind and state laws mandated a certified teacher in every classroom, districts turned to the growing number of
teachers entering the profession through alternative certification (AC) programs.
Rhee and Fornia make a valid point that not
all teachers enter the profession at age 25, and their paper also includes the graph below showing the actual distribution of California teachers by the age at which they began teaching.
Even
a teacher entering the profession with a master's degree is better off under the evidence - based salary schedule, even though it pays no reward for the advanced degree.
The number of new
teachers entering the profession has dropped to its lowest in five years, Department for Education (DfE) figures show.
Moreover, in most states,
teachers entering the profession are not as racially diverse as the student population; nationally, 44 percent of all public school students are students of color, while only 17 percent of all public school teachers are educators of color.
If
a teacher enters the profession because of tenure, they are in the wrong business and I would never hire them.
Teachers entering the profession through an approved Alternate Route Training Program can also have a 2.75 GPA or higher.
Dean Benbow: First, by far, education schools continue to educate almost all new
teachers entering the profession.
A Public Agenda survey of teachers shows that three quarters of teachers believe that good teachers «can lead all students to learn, even those from poor families or who have uninvolved parents;» two thirds of
teachers entered the profession to help put «underprivileged kids on the path to success.»