Attracting and keeping the best teachers : issues and opportunities / Anna Sullivan, Bruce Johnson, Michele Simons, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Johnson, Bruce, 1951- editor.

Simons, Michele, 1959- editor.

Sullivan, Anna (Anna Mary), editor.

Series:

Professional learning and development in schools and higher education ; 16.

Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education ; volume 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

First year teachers.

Teachers--Recruiting.

Teachers.

Teachers--Training of.

Physical Description:

viii, 230 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer, [2019]

Summary:

This book challenges dominant thinking about early career teachers and their work. It offers an in-depth and critical analysis of policies concerning the work of early career teachers and how they are supported during this critical period, when they are highly vulnerable to leaving the profession. Moreover, the book provides examples from actual practice that illustrate how to help early career teachers make a successful transition into the profession. These practices promote early career teachers' development and help the profession as a whole to capitalize on the new knowledge and skills that these teachers bring to their classrooms and their students. The book is divided into two main parts. Part 1 deals with the difficult to define process of retaining early career teachers, and its respective chapters consider this broad issue from an international perspective. They explore how policies and practices have an impact on what happens in schools, and what it means to be a teacher and to teach. In turn, Part 2 focuses on the need to reconsider the policies and practices that create the 'problem' of early career teachers, and offers alternative ways forward. Each chapter addresses a specific aspect of the early career teacher retention issue, contributing to a greater understanding of how we can rethink the work of early career teachers so that they can more successfully transition into the profession.

Contents:

1. Introduction / Anna Sullivan, Bruce Johnson, Michele Simons

Part I. Examining issues related to retaining early career teachers. 2. Unpacking teacher quality : key issues for early career teachers / Maria Assunc̦ão Flores

3. "Classroom-ready teachers" / Barry Down, Anna Sullivan

4. Shifting the frame : representations of early career teachers in the Australian print media / Nicole Mockler

5. Early career teachers and their need for support : thinking again / Geert Kelchtermans

Part II. Reconsidering policies and practices : a way forward. 6. How school leaders attract, recruit, develop and retain the quality early career teachers they want / Bruce Johnson, Anna Sullivan, Michele Simons, Judy Peters

7. Connecting theory and practice / Jamie Sisson

8. Recruiting, retaining and supporting early career teachers for rural schools / Simone White

9. Reforming replacement teaching : a game changer for the development of early career teaching? / Barbara Preston

10. Quality retention and resilience in the middle and later years of teaching / Christopher Day

11. Teacher retention : some concluding thoughts / Bruce Johnson, Anna Sullivan, Michele Simons.

ISBN:

981138620X

9789811386206

OCLC:

1100630648