Topics range from being effective with budgets, managing teacher workload and dealing with
teacher recruitment and retention issues to solutions to manage pupil progress and attainment and methods of creative teaching.
While grammar schools, teacher workload and the pupil funding have dominated education headlines in recent months, the ongoing challenges in
teacher recruitment and retention continue to provide difficulties for schools.
He further contends that school leaders should adapt and design their own local policies
on teacher recruitment and retention as no one - size - fits - all approaches to have been identified.
She has demonstrated an absolute commitment to social mobility, to addressing the serious difficulties
in teacher recruitment and retention, and to developing education policy on the basis of evidence.
In February, Schools Week reported on the findings of the education select committee's
teacher recruitment and retention inquiry, which called on the government to give all teachers the chance to formally improve their professional development as one way to boost retention rates.
The Labour Party suggests this is another result of the
growing teacher recruitment and retention crisis, with the proportion of schools having to re-advertise after failing to fill a post doubling over the past year.
There should also be a national strategy
for teacher recruitment and retention that recognises teachers as high - status professionals and guarantees enough teachers for every school; fair methods to hold schools to account, recognising that test and exam results are only part of the picture when judging a pupil's success or a school's effectiveness; and a broad range of subjects in the school day so opportunities are not limited.
Touching on growing concerns among schools leaders
about teacher recruitment and retention, Ms Powell blamed the government's reforms: «Doing down the profession, constantly changing the goal posts and ignoring the views of the workforce doesn't encourage good teachers to stay in post.
Commenting on the Public Accounts Committee's report Retaining and Developing the Teaching Workforce, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «We have now had numerous official public bodies highlighting the lack of effective action by this Government to address the
deep teacher recruitment and retention crisis.
Researchers examined trends in
minority teacher recruitment and retention over 25 years and found that the number of Hispanic, black, Asian and Native American teachers has more than doubled since 1987, which is twice the rate of growth for white, non-Hispanic teachers.
One small problem: Rural superintendent don't consider
teacher recruitment and retention among their biggest challenges... and mixing rural schooling and technology is more complicated than you might think.
Task force members will
study teacher recruitment and retention, discuss best practices to address truancy, below - average academic performance and low graduation rates, and explore ways to improve access to technology in high poverty urban areas.The task force plans to meet in four of our largest urban areas, Milwaukee, Green Bay, Madison and Kenosha / Racine, with the first meeting likely to be scheduled for late September.
Classroom «Crisis»: Many Teachers Have Little or No Experience MSNBC, September 26, 2011 «While education experts caution that lack of experience isn't necessarily an indication of a teacher's ability, student achievement scores do show that on average a first - year teacher is not as effective as a third - year teacher, said Susan Moore Johnson, an expert on
teacher recruitment and retention at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.»