The crisis in teacher supply : research and strategies for retention / edited by Ian Menter, Merryn Hutchings and Alistair Ross.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Menter, Ian, 1949-

Hutchings, Merryn, 1948-

Ross, Alistair, 1946-

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teachers--Supply and demand--Great Britain.

Teachers.

Teachers--Recruiting--Great Britain.

Teachers--Training of--Great Britain.

Teachers--Training of.

Teachers--Recruiting.

Teachers--Supply and demand.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

viii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Stoke on Trent; Sterling, VA : Trentham, 2002.

Summary:

Maintaining the supply of teachers to schools is a major challenge for the governments of many countries, yet there has been remarkably little systematic research in the field. This book offers analyses of a number of projects designed to improve recruitment into the teaching profession in England, showing which are effective and why. Contributors include Elizabeth McKernan and Ian Taylor, Melissa Coulthard and Chris Kyriacou, Gary N. Chambers and Tom Roper, Julie Adams, Bruce Carrington, Pamela Lewis, Dave Thomson, Yve Posner and Clare Tikly, Barbara Allebone, Jenny Griffiths, Sue Kendall and Susan Sidgwick.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Getting schools into focus

school placements and recruitment / Elizabeth McKernan, Ian Taylor 7

Chapter 2 Does teaching as a career offer what students are looking for? / Melissa Coulthard, Chris Kyriacou 29

Chapter 3 Why students withdraw from initial teacher training for secondary schools: the Leeds experience / Gary N Chambers, Tom Roper 59

Chapter 4 The case of Modern Foreign Languages / Julie Adams 87

Chapter 5 'I wanted to be a role model but...': minority ethnic trainees' and NQTs' reflections on the PGCE / Bruce Carrington 101

Chapter 6 An enquiry into male drop-out rate on a PGCE primary course at a university college and success indicators for retention / Pamela Lewis 123

Chapter 7 The history of London teachers' careers, 1970-2000 / Alistair Ross 139

Chapter 8 Teacher supply and retention in London

Key findings and implications from a study carried out in six boroughs in 1998/9 / Merryn Hutchings Ian Menter, Alistair Ross, Dave Thomson 175

Chapter 9 Teacher supply and retention in London: the case of mathematics / Yve Posner, Clare Tikly 207

Chapter 10 The participation of schools in initial teacher education in the London region / Barbara Allebone, Jenny Griffiths, Sue Kendall, Susan Sidgwick 243.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

1858562740

OCLC:

59498587