Sentences with phrase «teacher workforce planning»
Edmund Misson, AITSL Deputy Chief Executive Officer, welcomed a new report from the Australian Council for Educational Research, which shows how a growing trend towards online learning for teaching courses creates the need for a national approach to teacher workforce planning.
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Looking ahead: Miami - Dade County's proposed plan to build workforce housing on or near school grounds to help recruit teachers is worth watching.
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.
Importantly, it also provides the opportunity for retired teachers to re-enter the workforce on a flexible basis, avoiding onerous planning and marking.
Under these circumstances, it is essential that we have excellent data for workforce planning and a good understanding of developments and trends that will shape the teacher workforce of the future.
Australia faces a number of challenges over the next decade in planning the future teacher workforce.
Current teacher pension plans are neither improving the workforce nor providing teachers with adequate retirement savings.
Women are more likely to spend time out of the workforce than men, and defined - benefit pension plans tend to punish teachers who fail to meet specific targets, such as 30 years of service.
It seems likely that the funds currently devoted to support teacher DB plans could be redeployed in a more strategic manner to promote the highest quality workforce for students in K - 12 schools.
Across the entire workforce, the majority of California teachers would be better off in a cash balance plan than the state's current pension plan.
I instead undertook a simulation exercise based on: estimated workforce participation histories in a nationally representative dataset; and the features of Ohio's pension plan for teachers.
The main reason is that women are more likely to spend time out of the workforce than men, and defined - benefit pension plans like the one in Ohio tend to punish teachers who fail to meet specific targets, such as 30 years of service.
My analysis is a simulation of pension benefits based on the parameters of Ohio's defined - benefit pension plan for teachers (as described by Costrell and Podgursky) applied to workforce participation histories in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY).
So, whilst it's certainly not the silver bullet that we all wish we had to solve the crisis within teaching, more strategic use of data within workforce planning could and should be helping schools and MATs to improve their teacher recruitment and retention, and to drive performance.
MATSITI has previously published a Teacher Workforce Scoping Plan - a blueprint for a national effort to increase the number and capacity of Indigenous teachers and leaders in the government and non-government school sectors.
«For the first time we can accurately quantify the numbers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander teachers in our schools, and plan effective workforce reform strategies for our people with the confidence they are based on robust evidence,» MATSITI Director, Professor Peter Buckskin, tells Teacher.
The Kansas City and St. Louis teacher pension plans are set up for a workforce that doesn't exist.
However Gareth Conyard, the DfE's deputy director of the Teacher Workforce Development team, said there were no specific plans to develop specialist subject CPD programmes.
We spoke with Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz, Indiana Chamber of Commerce Vice President of Education and Workforce Development Derek Redelman and Purposeful Curriculum Planning teacher trainer Lisa Froderman about the new academic standards adopted in whole or part by 46 states and the District of Columbia.
Genuine workforce planning policy for teachers needs to be implemented to eliminate the current oversupply of teaching graduates who are only able to get casual or short - term contract employment.
The programs, while boosting local efforts on career - readiness and teacher leadership, will help rising educators become empowered, informed consumers as they plan their trajectories to postsecondary studies and into the workforce.
A mainstay of Wyoming's ESSA plan is growing a strong and sustainable workforce of teachers and leaders.