Moreover, many departing educators are leaving the profession altogether.1What’s more, interest in the teaching profession among high school seniors and college freshmen has declined by 50% since the 1990s.2This all means that the talent pool is getting smaller by the day. Leaders may feel po...
Interviews with 21 paraeducators, participants cited difficulties with low pay as one key reason for paraeducators leaving the profession (Tillery et al., 2003). However, we have very little data on paraeducator salaries nor causally-strong evidence of salaries or other pecuniary incentives on ...
But with so many educators leaving the profession, the question we hear again and again is: What does it take to make a teacher stay? We turned to our team of former educators and educational leaders to share the best teacher retention strategies that they’ve seen or implemented ...
Since its inception,The Educator’s Roomhas tackled hot topics directly from the headlines happening inside and outside the United States. This statement is published in response to the historical number of teachers who are leaving the profession from Pre-K to Higher Education. This statement is...
Compensation (including benefits) is consistently cited across all school types as the number-one reason why educators are considering leaving their jobs. Approximately 75 percent of educators in this category say they put more into their job than they receive in return, and 69 percent...
Social sciences education An examination of secondary social studies educators' intentions regarding staying or leaving the teaching profession THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL Xue Lan Rong FitchettPaul GThis study was designed to examine the demographic and professional mechanisms that ...
“There is a growing population of students in the public school system that create the need for more teachers. There are teachers who leave the profession to further their education. There are teachers due to return from their studies who have delays due to COVID-19. There are persons who...
The succession of these factors is known as the “burnout cascade,” a primary cause of teachers leaving the profession (Montgomery & Rupp, 2005). Burnout is initially experienced by teachers internally (e.g. becoming emotionally exhausted) before being directed outward toward students (e.g. ...
Women superintendents in Illinois: Barriers to the superintendency and how these barriers are considered as reasons for leaving the profession questions about the characteristics, career pathways, personal and professional barriers, and the factors considered in choosing to leave the superintendency. .....
Beranek said fewer Iowans are going into teaching, and that high percentages of teachers in their first five years of teaching are leaving the profession. More seasoned educators, in the middle of their careers, are leaving too, he said. ...