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Ways to Retain Teachers When Budgets Are Tight
For many years educators and policy makers have heard the research regarding teacher dropouts. This research indicates that 50% of all new teachers may leave the profession within the first five years. The revolving door of teacher hiring and teacher burnout can hurt the morale of a staff, and can impede continuity of the school’s mission and curriculum. Retention of effective teachers is vitally important for the quality of education provided to students. Retention initiatives can be viewed as a continuum that begins with hiring and includes opportunities for teachers’ professional leadership. Keeping tight school budgets in mind, strategies for these important initiatives can still be affordable. Continue reading
Strategies to Improve Teacher Hiring: From the Job Ad to Making a Successful Offer
It is critically important to hire the best new teachers for today’s K-12 schools. Highly-qualified teachers engage learners and raise student achievement. They bring fresh ideas to the school. A weak hire not only impacts student learning, but lowers faculty morale and costs an administrator hours of time to remediate or release. Since hiring is such an important process, everyone involved in it needs to know the best hiring strategies. Continue reading
Strategies to Improve Teacher Hiring: From the Job Ad to Making a Successful Offer
It is critically important to hire the best new teachers for today’s K-12 schools. Highly-qualified teachers engage learners and raise student achievement. They bring fresh ideas to the school. A weak hire not only impacts students learning, but lowers faculty morale and costs an administrator hours of time to remediate or release. Since hiring is such an important process, everyone involved in it needs to know the best hiring strategies.
The first step in hiring is creating an action plan that includes the assignment of tasks. Will the personnel office make the first sort of paperwork? Who will attend job fairs and make the preliminary telephone interviews? Will principals and a team of teachers do the on-site interviews? Those who interview should be trained in their roles, and should be included in writing the job advertisement. Continue reading
