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Book Synopsis Recruiting and Retaining Teachers in Alabama by : Eric Hirsch
Download or read book Recruiting and Retaining Teachers in Alabama written by Eric Hirsch and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With No Child Left Behind's call for highly qualified teachers, the stakes for recruiting and retaining teachers have never been more important. Alabama, like other states, has struggled to develop policies and programs that effectively staff all classrooms with quality educators. The Center for Teaching Quality, with the support of SERVE, has surveyed approximately 4,200 educators in Mobile, Talladega and Hoover to inform the work of the Governor's Commission on Quality Teaching. By asking those whose opinions matter most on these critical issues--classroom teachers--policymakers can better gauge what incentives and school conditions are most essential in recruiting and retaining teachers for all Alabama classrooms. Survey respondents were positive about the teaching and learning conditions in their schools, reporting that leadership supports them, professional development provides the knowledge and skills they need to teach effectively, and that facilities and resources are adequate. This is important as educators noted that these conditions drive their future employment decisions. Educators who indicated that they are most likely to move schools or quit teaching have much more negative perceptions of teaching and learning conditions than those who want to remain in their school. Additionally, issues such as leadership, empowerment, and time (along with salary) were among the most important influences on teachers' decisions about whether to stay in their school. Leadership, in particular, was an important factor. Recommendations are offered for the Governor's Commission's consideration. (Contains 11 tables, 2 figures, and 17 endnotes.) [This report was produced by the Center for Teaching Quality, formerly known as the Southeast Center for Teaching Quality.].
Book Synopsis Men Do Stay by : Calvin E. Moore, Jr.
Download or read book Men Do Stay written by Calvin E. Moore, Jr. and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Calvin E. Moore, Jr., once again has authored a book that focuses on improving the lives of young children. This insightful look at the retention of male early childhood teachers offers early childhood programs meaningful recruitment strategies and dispels the notion that male teachers leave the field. Dr. Moore walks the reader through a comparative case study that he conducted of five male early childhood teachers that chose to stay in the field despite pressures from society to leave. Together he and the reader learn from these men how to build strong early childhood programs that recruit and retain qualified male early childhood teachers. This books is a deeply personal journey for Dr. Moore because he began his storied career as a male teacher assistant in a Head Start program in Birmingham, Alabama where this study was conducted. For over twenty years he has proven that Men Do Stay in the field of early childhood!
Book Synopsis Recruitment and Selection of Teacher Personnel in the Public School Systems of Alabama by : Gerald Gaylon Hovater
Download or read book Recruitment and Selection of Teacher Personnel in the Public School Systems of Alabama written by Gerald Gaylon Hovater and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Recruiting and Retaining Rural School Administrators by : Aimee Howley
Download or read book Recruiting and Retaining Rural School Administrators written by Aimee Howley and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Recruiting, Preparing, and Retaining Teachers for Urban Schools by : Kenneth R. Howey
Download or read book Recruiting, Preparing, and Retaining Teachers for Urban Schools written by Kenneth R. Howey and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can the "revolving door" at the nation's high-poverty schools be slowed down? How can diversity be taught in teacher preparation that relates to teaching and learning? How can teachers learn to use the diverse urban classroom as a rich asset? By focusing on reconceptualizing general education studies, addressing key urban understanding and abilities throughout the professional program, implementing multiyear induction programs, and integrating outstanding veteran urban teachers, the authors of this volume take an affirming look at preparing teachers for the complexities of urban teaching. They candidly present lessons from a variety of urban settings for attracting, preparing, and supporting teachers who are both caring and qualified. The book contains the following chapters: (1) The Urban Context and Urban Schools (Kenneth R. Howey); (2) Sociocultural Strategies for Recruiting Teachers Into Urban Classrooms (Elizabeth C. Rightmyer, Ann E. Larson); (3) Urban Immersion: A Prototypical Early Clinical Immersion Experience (Andrea J. Stairs); (4) Recruiting, Preparing, and Retaining Urban Teachers: One Person's View From Many Angles (Michael J. Froning; (5) UWM's Collaborative Teacher Education Program for Urban Communities and the Pursuit of Program Coherence (Marleen D. Pugach, Hope Longwell-Grice, Alison Ford); (6) Professional Development of Reading Teachers: Biography and Context (William E. Blanton, Alison Shook, Anne Hocutt, Adriana Medina, Jeanne Schumm; (7) Growing Teacher Leadership in the Urban Context: The Power of Partnerships (Elizabeth MacDonald, Dennis Shirley); (8) Voices From the City: The Patrick Henrey High School Residency Program (Sharon Cormany Ornelas, Particia Thornton); and (9) Retaining Highly Effective Teachers in an Urban School District: Challenges and Opportunities (Vivian Gunn Morris, Allan D. Sterbinsky).
Book Synopsis Effective Teacher Interviews by : Jennifer L. Hindman
Download or read book Effective Teacher Interviews written by Jennifer L. Hindman and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teacher quality is the school-related factor that most affects student learning, so selecting the best candidate for open teaching positions has enormous implications. In Effective Teacher Interviews, Jennifer L. Hindman provides practical advice on how to conduct hiring interviews that reliably predict a teacher’s success, including guidance on applying research to the interview process; developing meaningful, legal interview questions; assembling and training an interview team; matching candidates’ skills to your schools’ needs; and using the best interview strategies. With these tips on refocusing the interview process, you’ll be better prepared to select and hire the teachers who will make a positive difference for your students and your school.
Book Synopsis Recruiting Minority Classroom Teachers by : Denise A. Alston
Download or read book Recruiting Minority Classroom Teachers written by Denise A. Alston and published by National Governors Assn. This book was released on 1988 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An explanation of the impending shortage of minority teachers and suggestions for increasing the supply of minority teachers compose the crux of this document. The following specific actions may be taken by local school districts, colleges of teacher education, teacher certification boards, and teacher recruitment and selection offices to ensure that a highly talented cadre of minorities will choose teaching over other professions: (1) gather information about gender and minority distribution of students enrolled in colleges of education, and of teachers; (2) organize task forces that focus uniquely on minority teacher recruitment; (3) develop strategies to expand the number of target groups from which to recruit teachers; (4) lobby for fiscal support to improve minority participation in the teacher recruitment effort and expand financial assistance packages; (5) increase financial support for schools that minorities attend; and (6) develop a pool of oncall minority professionals who can be quickly brought into teaching. An appendix lists suggested recruitment programs and practices with regard to policy review and constituency building, data-gathering activities, early recruitment/pipeline improvement, program-entry incentives, retention to successful licensure, and recruitment from alternative pools. (JAM)
Book Synopsis Challenging the Deprofessionalisation of Teaching and Teachers by : John Buchanan
Download or read book Challenging the Deprofessionalisation of Teaching and Teachers written by John Buchanan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how best to invest in and nurture teachers. It examines deprofessionalisation and reprofessionalisation in the recent developments in the understanding of teaching and learning, including the effects of standardizing teaching, education shaped by student satisfaction data and basic skills tests. The book focuses on Australian context and takes on an international perspective. It investigates fundamental issues affecting teacher quality, morale, attrition and retention, learner and teacher autonomy, and assessment and evaluation. It encourages teachers and teacher educators to assert centrality to teachers and question and challenge outside forces that suppress teacher autonomy and associated agency and creativity. It challenges administrators and educational jurisdictions to rethink their assumptions on their own capacities and limitations and teachers' capabilities to shape education in optimal ways and the impact of outcomes of the decisions they make.
Book Synopsis Teacher Leadership and Professional Development by : Alex Alexandrou
Download or read book Teacher Leadership and Professional Development written by Alex Alexandrou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in and knowledge of leadership and learning, separately and together, is an international and continuing phenomenon. This book adds to a somewhat under-researched aspect of the field. It focuses both on a particular form of leadership – teacher leadership, and on a particular form of learning – professional development. It considers the connection between teacher leadership and professional development and the first chapter relates this connection to a ‘Leadership for Learning’ conceptual framework, developed through an international, three-year project. The book’s chapters explore teacher leadership and professional development from a number of perspectives, giving rise to three points of particular significance. Firstly the chapters show that, either by accident or design, there is a growing cadre of teacher leaders emerging from a multitude of professional development activities and initiatives. Secondly, a number of new conceptual frameworks are put forward, alongside the adaption and development of extant ones that add to the ever-increasing theorisation of educational leadership and professional development literature. Thirdly, the chapters provide evidence of the connections between leadership and learning as conceptualised in the ‘Leadership for Learning’ framework. This book was originally published as a special issue of Professional Development in Education.
Book Synopsis Stories from Novice Teachers by : Lisa Scherff
Download or read book Stories from Novice Teachers written by Lisa Scherff and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2010-08-14 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do new teachers change schools or leave the profession? Stories from Novice Teachers: This is Induction? attempts to address this question. In this book, we feature the stories of a dozen novice teachers and how they were, or were not, mentored or inducted by their schools. Using data collected over a three-year period-close to 1,000 emails and face-to-face interviews, the cases presented in this book can inform school principals and district-level administrators of the situations that promote or hinder new teacher growth so that we can lower attrition rates and foster student achievement. The cases presented in this book range from problems in the faculty lounge to unsupportive colleagues to 'too much' induction.
Book Synopsis The Board and Superintendent Handbook by : Amy E. Van Deuren
Download or read book The Board and Superintendent Handbook written by Amy E. Van Deuren and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Board and Superintendent Handbook: Current Issues and Resources is a practical guide for both board members and superintendents. The book includes contributions from experienced and new superintendents and board members on a wide range of topics that boards and superintendents must navigate together successfully in order to move districts in a positive direction for students, staff, parents, and communities.
Book Synopsis Creating Conditions for Growth by : Renée E. Thompson
Download or read book Creating Conditions for Growth written by Renée E. Thompson and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the critical role that teachers play in supporting at-risk student populations to stay in school and successfully complete their graduation requirements. Thompson addresses how high schools may support marginal students in achieving success by the implementation of teacher self-efficacy and a positive classroom environment. The study identifies ways in which administrators at all levels can support teacher’s professional development and student success through reinforced accountability and consistency. The study also addresses how to grow and strengthen students to not only to stay in the traditional school setting, but to ensure the process will prepare students to be academically, socially, and emotionally ready for college and a career. Fostering this environment requires collaboration and teamwork from teachers, administrators, and parents. Students will demonstrate academic achievement when the school environment is positive, equitable, safe and rigorous.
Download or read book People First! written by Leslie Grant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a concise guide for school leaders who want to create good relationships with their teachers. It offers easy-to-implement ideas that will help you unite with teachers to increase student achievement together. People First provides research-based and practitioner-developed tips and strategies for administrators, instructional leaders, teacher leaders, and professional development specialists.
Book Synopsis Recruiting and Retaining African American Teachers in Rural and Suburban School Divisions by : Kendra Core King
Download or read book Recruiting and Retaining African American Teachers in Rural and Suburban School Divisions written by Kendra Core King and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Characteristics of Tenacious Teachers in Alabama by : Michael Lee Aycock
Download or read book Characteristics of Tenacious Teachers in Alabama written by Michael Lee Aycock and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research has shown that band programs at schools serving mostly low-income students have low student participation and depressed academic achievement. Furthermore, these same programs have reported difficulty recruiting and retaining band directors as they seem to prefer schools with access to more resources and support (Bruenger, 2010, Madsen & Hancock, 2002). Understanding the characteristics of band directors who choose to work in low socioeconomic (SES) schools may provide teacher trainers and professional associations with a means to identify individuals with a propensity and interest in working in schools serving predominantly low SES students. Moreover, accounting for teaching experience may help ensure SES is the primary factor being examined. In order to determine whether a relationship between those band directors employed at schools serving financially advantaged and disadvantaged students was related to their teaching experience and personality traits (i.e., grit and self-efficacy), I created a survey and conducted two studies to address four research questions. The purpose of the first study to compare the grit and self-efficacy of band directors teaching in schools enrolling primarily low, moderate, and high SES students while accounting for band directors' teaching experience. The purpose of the second study was to confirm whether the components comprising grit and self-efficacy, revealed in the first study, were applicable to band directors drawn from the entire membership of the Alabama Bandmasters Association. One-hundred and four band directors attending the Alabama All-State Festival voluntarily filled out a 31-question survey derived from prior research on Grit and Self-Efficacy (Duckworth, 2013; Sherer, Maddux, Merdandante, Prentice-Dunn, Jacobs & Rogers, 1982). An exploratory factor analysis of the participants' responses revealed the presence of two Grit factors representing Consistency of Interests and Perseverance of Effort, and five Social Self-Efficacy factors comprising Perception of Reaction to Adversity, Perception of Tenacity, Perception of Ability, and Confidence for Self-Efficacy. These scores served as dependent variables and results from an analysis of covariance revealed no differences between socioeconomic groups for any of the factor scores. In general, public school band directors in Alabama demonstrated a high degree of grit and self-efficacy despite the SES of their school assignments. Factors that emerged for Grit and Self-Efficacy were then examined using a confirmatory factor analysis to determine the stability of the structure with a larger pool of Alabama Band Directors. Three-hundred and seven band directors who were members of the Alabama Bandmasters Association were invited to participate in an online survey that was functionally identical to the one used previously. Results verified factor structure revealed in the first study Grit and Self-efficacy. Detailed analysis revealed item loadings for Grit and Self-Efficacy were similar to other populations supporting the use of Grit and Self-Efficacy with Alabama Band Directors in future research.
Book Synopsis Teacher Recruitment and Retention by : Antoine M. Garibaldi
Download or read book Teacher Recruitment and Retention written by Antoine M. Garibaldi and published by NEA Professional Library. This book was released on 1989 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Handbook of Research in Education Finance and Policy by : Helen F. Ladd
Download or read book Handbook of Research in Education Finance and Policy written by Helen F. Ladd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sponsored by the Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP), this groundbreaking new handbook assembles in one place the existing research-based knowledge in education finance and policy, thereby helping to define this evolving field of research and practice. It provides a readily available resource for anyone seriously involved in education finance and policy in the United States and around the world. The Handbook traces the evolution of the field from its initial focus on school inputs and the revenue sources used to finance these inputs to a focus on educational outcomes and the larger policies used to achieve them. It shows how the current decision-making context in school finance inevitably interacts with those of governance, accountability, equity, privatization, and other areas of education policy. Because a full understanding of the important contemporary issues requires input from a variety of perspectives, the Handbook draws on contributors from a variety of disciplines. While many of the chapters cover complex state-of-the-art empirical research, the authors explain key concepts in language that non-specialists can understand.
