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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
