But they must also consider the broader context in which Head Start teachers work, including compensation levels, quality of early childhood educator preparation programs, and how the broader early childhood landscape and K - 12
teacher workforce trends affect the employment market for Head Start teachers.
In the past year, overall
teacher workforce trends in California have worsened, with especially severe consequences in special education, math, and science, and significant threats in bilingual education.
Not exact matches
If
teacher academic proficiency matters, then the long - term
trends in the makeup of the
teacher workforce present a troubling portrait.
What explains the seeming dichotomy between what we see when we look at
trends for prospective
teachers (based on college major) and
trends for those who actually enter the
teacher workforce?
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.
We've argued that pensions play a role in eating up budget resources that could be used for
teacher salary increases, but there are other
trends in the composition of the teaching
workforce that may be leading us to the wrong conclusions on
teacher wages (and these
trends extend beyond education).
As a new crop of
teachers age into the
workforce, earn higher salaries, and slowly take their place as the dominant group in schools, the
trends may reverse, and we may start to see demographics artifically inflating average salaries.
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.
These two
trends could have shifted our perceptions of the
teacher workforce even as the underlying dynamics didn't change much at all.
Richard discussed his newly updated report on seven key
trends affecting the teaching
workforce, including the
trends of
teachers becoming more mobile and far less experienced than they were a generation ago.
Last month, Brookings kicked off a series focused on diversity in the public
teacher workforce with an article looking at patterns and
trends in the diversity gap across locales, school sectors, and
teacher generations.
«We can not say definitively whether Act 10 caused the spike in
teachers leaving the
workforce, but there is an unmistakable break in the
trend line immediately following the legislation,» the study reads.
The study concludes education
workforce trends locally and state - wide «easily align with the national figures,» regarding
teacher retention — a growing national problem.
A
teacher in Ohio put the
teacher workforce demographic
trends in more dramatic terms when he expressed hope that there would be public school
teachers to support him when he's ready to retire!
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.
In terms of experience, over the long term the
teacher workforce is
trending toward less experience.
Although the
teacher workforce appeared to be aging between the late 1980s and the late 2000s, that
trend may be largely over.