Too often, education leaders respond to teacher shortages by rushing into quick - fix solutions, like paying hiring bonuses for new teachers, without taking the time to diagnose their real
teacher pipeline problems.
Not exact matches
We have the potential, here, to solve two
problems at once: the reputation of our subject as elitist and boring (by portraying a wider range of activities in maths) and the shortage of good maths
teachers (by encouraging a stronger
pipeline of diverse mathematicians at every level from early years to
teacher training and beyond).
As Oklahoma continues to lose its
teachers to surrounding higher - paying states, students see a revolving door of educators entering and leaving their school — a process that research shows hurts student achievement.56 Instead of loosening requirements for entry into the profession to solve this
problem, the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) assembled a
Teacher Shortage Task Force to implement changes that would strengthen the teacher pipeline, thereby bolstering recruitment and retention efforts in the
Teacher Shortage Task Force to implement changes that would strengthen the
teacher pipeline, thereby bolstering recruitment and retention efforts in the
teacher pipeline, thereby bolstering recruitment and retention efforts in the state.
He comes to grasp the fundamental
problem with TFA's conception of the
teacher pipeline: Let's say the lowest - performing 10 percent of career
teachers — 320,000 people — are fired.
Measures that addressed the steps in the certification
pipeline that
teachers progress through provided a focused way for participants to understand the effect of their improvement efforts, to discuss specific
problems that could be targeted for action, and to share improvements that had worked to solve those identified
problems.
Lance believe these
problems of
teacher professionalism,
teacher talent
pipelines, and the changing needs of our students can be solved.
In fact, Relay is no panacea for our
pipeline problems, and instead represents the tip of an approaching iceberg that threatens the education of the state's most under - served students and sells short the very
teachers to whom we owe the best preparation, support, working conditions, and compensation available.
Perhaps the most disheartening explanation for the
problems in the
pipeline of
teachers is that «women have more options today, so they don't need to go into teaching.»