This chapter examines the makeup of the current
teacher workforce in the United States, exploring trends and changes over time and what is known about how some of these demographic factors relate to measures of effectiveness.
The teacher workforce in the United States comprises about 3.4 million teachers serving nearly 50 million students in public and charter schools.
From 2000 onward, the proportion of underprepared teachers declined every year, even as the overall size of
the teacher workforce in the state grew significantly — from 292,000 in 2000 to 310,000 in 2008.
The teacher workforce in math and science is aging rapidly.
«Help will be required for the foreseeable future in part because of the nature of the teacher workforce... there's such a high degree of turnover,» said Henry, who noted that 25 percent of
the teacher workforce in low - performing schools comprises teachers who are within their first five years of teaching.
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To build and maintain a qualified
teacher workforce in today's labor market, states should fundamentally reform their retirement benefit systems.
Download the ACER Centre for Education Policy and Practice report,
The Teacher Workforce in Australia: Supply, demand and data issues.
A simple case study, based on
the teacher workforce in North Carolina, suggests that this policy change would return several dividends.
That's why it's important for states to follow North Carolina's lead and collect this sort of rich data in order to understand
the teacher workforce in their states.
The quality of
the teacher workforce in the United States is of considerable concern to education stakeholders and policymakers.
Not exact matches
Each
in their early 30s, Joe and Ali Olsen quit their jobs as public school
teachers with $ 1 million
in the bank
in August 2015, retiring after just eight years
in the
workforce to travel with their young daughter.
«The evidence from the Department for Education's own
workforce survey was always clear: there is a frightening shortfall
in qualified RE
teachers in our secondary schools.
Commenting on the publication by the Department for Education of School
Workforce statistical data on headteachers» salaries, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest
teachers» union, said: «Headteachers and other school leaders have an important and critical job to do
in leading and managing teaching and learning
in schools.
«Whilst we welcome the intention behind the audit of public services to address racial disparities, the fact is that
in education, the Department for Education is already
in possession of a wealth of evidence, much of it provided by NASUWT, on racial and other inequalities faced by young people,
teachers and the education
workforce in general.
As part of the region's transformative strategy to grow its own high - tech
workforce, Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. today announced the kickoff for the 2012 SEMI High Tech U Teacher Edition, in partnership with officials from the Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties, Workforce Investment Board, Mohawk Valley EDGE...
workforce, Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. today announced the kickoff for the 2012 SEMI High Tech U
Teacher Edition,
in partnership with officials from the Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties,
Workforce Investment Board, Mohawk Valley EDGE...
Workforce Investment Board, Mohawk Valley EDGE... Read more
While the main hiring priority of any school district should be hiring the most qualified
teachers who can build up their students the most, building a teaching
workforce that is reflective of the community
in which they work must be a goal for districts.
«The current crisis
in the recruitment, retention and morale of the
teacher workforce is a further issue on which Ofsted and the NASUWT agree has real potential to undermine the ability of schools to meet the educational needs and entitlements of all children and young people.
As part of the region's transformative strategy to grow its own high - tech
workforce, Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. today announced the kickoff for the 2012 SEMI High Tech U Teacher Edition, in partnership with officials from the Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties, Workforce Investment Board, Mohawk Valley EDGE, NYSUT a
workforce, Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. today announced the kickoff for the 2012 SEMI High Tech U
Teacher Edition,
in partnership with officials from the Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties,
Workforce Investment Board, Mohawk Valley EDGE, NYSUT a
Workforce Investment Board, Mohawk Valley EDGE, NYSUT and BOCES.
Picente said the project, which helps local
teachers inspire and educate students
in key skill areas needed by local high - growth employers, is supported by the Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties,
Workforce Investment Board, Mohawk Valley EDGE, BOCES and National Grid.
In early May, the city announced that it had reached a nine - year labor agreement with the United Federation of
Teachers, which represents 37 percent of the city's
workforce.
As a member of the Education &
Workforce committee, I strongly oppose recent efforts to reduce federal funding
in these areas, and I am the author of H.R. 258, the STEM Master
Teacher Corps Act, which would award competitive grants to school districts or states to partner with colleges and universities or nonprofit organizations to establish a program which will develop, support and retain exceptional
teachers in the STEM disciplines.
Combined with the aging of the
teacher workforce, these ERIs are likely to change the composition of
teachers dramatically
in the coming years.
Those
teachers interviewed «painted a picture of a downtrodden
workforce, getting by day - to - day with Heath Robinson equipment, making and mending and borrowing equipment and apparatus
in tatty laboratories and classrooms».
The findings, published
in the latest issue of Educational Researcher, a peer - reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association, underscore the importance of having a diverse
workforce of
teachers.
In Ontario alone, by 2010 as many as 49,000 new teachers — 20 % of the current teaching workforce — will be needed in the public and private school
In Ontario alone, by 2010 as many as 49,000 new
teachers — 20 % of the current teaching
workforce — will be needed
in the public and private school
in the public and private schools.
For them, and for the more than 3 million
teachers already
in the K - 12
workforce, learning more math and science means
in - service professional development or a graduate degree.
The DfE has said this was driven by a rise
in those moving to go «out of service», which refers to qualified
teachers who are not identified as teaching
in either a state of primary school
in the government's annual
workforce statistics, but were teaching the previous year and not claiming pension.
The aging of the
teacher workforce and the possibility of an impending
teacher retirement «crisis» are recurring topics
in the media.
We can compare the distributions of percentile ranks of SAT scores over time for new
teachers entering the
workforce the year after receiving their bachelor's degree (beginning teaching
in the 1993 — 94, 2000 — 01, and 2008 — 09 school years) to those of other college graduates
in the same cohort working full time the year following graduation.
The rapid expansion of the teaching
workforce hindered efforts to select
teachers on mental hygienic grounds, even before the
teacher shortage that developed
in the 1950s.
Schools benefit from being able to tap into this flexible
workforce, and the option to work
in this way is attractive to many
teachers.
That figure includes
teachers who split careers
in multiple locations; if we backed mobile
teachers out, the NIRS hypothetical would represent an even smaller amount of the teaching
workforce.
If
teacher academic proficiency matters, then the long - term trends
in the makeup of the
teacher workforce present a troubling portrait.
There was an upward shift
in achievement for 2008 college graduates entering the
teacher workforce the following school year.
In fact, 2008 graduates both with and without STEM majors who entered the
teacher workforce had higher average SAT scores than their peers who entered other occupations.
In real life,
teachers come into and out of the
workforce, cross state lines, and attempt to transfer benefits from one retirement plan to another.
Some of the next steps
in the education space are to develop reports on the teaching
workforce next year and allow for a robust supply and demand model of more than 600,000 practising and preservice
teachers to be used by employers, sectors and providers.
Policymakers must weigh these costs against the substantial educational and economic benefits such systems can create for successive cohorts of students, both through avoiding the career - long retention of the lowest - performing
teachers and through broad increases
in performance
in the overall teaching
workforce.
At the same time, the
teacher workforce is aging, particularly
in some areas.
The last few years have brought some exciting advances
in artificial intelligence and with it, many conversations about how it might render large swaths of the
workforce, including
teachers, redundant.
While there may be other mechanisms through which increased school spending improves student outcomes, these results suggest that the positive effects are driven, at least
in part, by some combination of reductions
in class size, having more adults per student
in schools, increases
in instructional time, and increases
in teacher salaries that may help to attract and retain a more highly qualified teaching
workforce.
There are also many thousands of Australian
teachers who are registered to teach but who are not
in the teaching
workforce.
Thus, the share of novice
teachers in the
workforce would rise and average effectiveness would fall.
Teachers and a school's wider
workforce will need support
in understanding this new category and, as with many areas, training on how to identify and support young people identified within this category of need is crucial
in order to offer effective interventions.
The
teacher workforce has changed
in exactly these ways.
There are also important changes occurring
in the demand for
teachers, the nature of the existing
teacher workforce, and the cohort of students being prepared to become
teachers.
Australia faces a number of challenges over the next decade
in planning the future
teacher workforce.
(If you want to see this visually, check out these graphics from my colleague Leslie Kan on changes
in Illinois»
teacher workforce.
Our schools are dealing with a lot more new
teachers than they had
in the past, and defined benefit pension systems aren't set up to deal with this type of mobile
workforce.