"Teacher mobility" refers to the ability of teachers to move or change schools, often within the same region or education system. It means that teachers have the freedom to transfer to different schools or locations, either temporarily or permanently, based on their needs or professional development.
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Do high levels
of teacher mobility lower student performance, or does low performance increase the chances that teachers will move on?
Big trends in the economy like unemployment rates and wages have at least as big an impact
on teacher mobility as specific education policy changes.
In addition to the issue of equity, this has serious implications
for teacher mobility, to which we now turn.
He has done extensive work using growth models to examine education policy issues
such teacher mobility and retention, and school turnaround strategies.
In analyses both
of teacher mobility and of student performance, teacher salaries are shown to have a modest impact.
We investigate patterns of
teacher mobility in districts with different collective bargaining agreement (CBA) transfer provisions.
We can gain further insight into the factors associated with
teacher mobility by examining the pre - and post-move school characteristics for teachers moving to a new school within the same district.
Once opportunity wages and working conditions are considered, teachers» own salaries are found to exert little impact on
teacher mobility within the profession; although, they reduce attrition out of the profession.
We examine the extent to which clustering large numbers of Teach For America (TFA) corps members in a limited number of low - performing schools was accompanied by changes in
teacher mobility decisions.
«This policy would
reduce teacher mobility, create shortages in areas of lower pay, hit recruitment and retention, and create needless extra expense and bureaucracy for schools.
But we'd be wise to assume that big, major trends in the economy like unemployment rates and wages have at least as big of an impact on
teacher mobility as specific education policy changes.
Discrete - time multinomial - logit - hazard model estimates indicate that classroom characteristics play a larger role than school average student characteristics in
determining teacher mobility.
Support teacher mobility by removing unnecessary interstate barriers so states with teacher surpluses in particular fields can be connected to states with corresponding shortages.
A 2015 paper from the Center for Education Data and Research looked
at teacher mobility within and across the states of Oregon and Washington.
Investigating the Effectiveness of a Comprehensive Literacy Coaching Program in Schools with High Teacher Mobility
His interests
include teacher mobility and teacher pensions, and education reforms, such as the effects of textbook funding on academic achievement for low - performing schools in California.
Quantitative study investigating impact of different levels of TVAAS and evaluation scores on novice and
veteran teacher mobility and retention
But the lowest performing teachers, who are generally the most likely to transfer between schools, appear to «churn» within the system, and
teacher mobility appears significantly affected by student demographics and achievement levels.
In this paper we assess the effects of receiving a layoff notice on
teacher mobility using data from Los Angeles and Washington State.
streamlining the teacher registration, recruitment and induction processes throughout all states and territories to improve teacher mobility
By exploiting exogenous variation in career concerns in the form of principal turnover, the author shows the observed behaviors can not be due to the endogeneity of
teacher mobility decisions alone.
There's a natural cycle
of teacher mobility in Colorado, and it seems to be tied to the larger, national economic picture.
The teacher turnover rate was particularly high among charter school educators in secondary schools, said Xiaoxia Newton, an assistant professor of education at Berkeley and the lead author of the study
on teacher mobility.
Stir in lack of
teacher mobility, inadequate induction programs, poor working conditions, the lowest unemployment in three decades, and a growing salary gap between teachers and other college graduates — a difference of more than $ 32,000 for experienced teachers with master's degrees — and you have created the worst shortage of qualified teachers ever.
First, thanks to Rick Kahlenberg and Halley Potter for correcting my math on
teacher mobility.
Recent work has included several studies related to value - added measures of teacher performance, teacher effectiveness in the early grades, school choice,
teacher mobility and special needs identification.
Specifically, we predicted the percentage of students at the district and school levels who score proficient or above on their state's mandated standardized tests, without using any school - specific information such as length of school day,
teacher mobility, computer - to - student ratio, etc..
School Accountability and
Teacher Mobility * American Education Finance Association, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, and Southern Economic
Teacher mobility is more affected by characteristics of the students (income, race, and achievement) than by salary schedules.
We find that performance during screening, and especially performance on specific screening assessments, is significantly predictive of applicants» eventual employment in LAUSD and teachers» later contributions to student achievement, evaluation outcomes, and attendance, but not to
teacher mobility or retention.