Teacher Turnover

Paper Summary:

The paper discusses the international phenomena that teachers are leaving the profession at a faster rate than new teachers are entering it. The paper examines a survey that was conducted to determine causes of high school teacher turnover. The paper shows how extra workloads, lack of support or mentoring and undesirable assignments are reasons teachers leave the profession. The paper maintains that it is time to implement mentoring programs and hire additional resources to help with the extra curricular work.

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Introduction
Reasons
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"To become a teacher, one must go through a university education and become certified to teach. It is a lot of preparation, with the hopes that those who make it through the program will make a career out of molding young minds, however, instead the profession as a whole experiences a disproportionately high turnover rate. Teachers report entering the profession because of their love of children and their desire to help mold the future of the world through education, however, many teachers decide to leave the profession they were trained for within years of starting out. There are several reasons that Ontario has a high turnover rate, and the time has come to try and reverse the problems so that trained, qualified teachers can be retained for the long term."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Pollak, Judy P. (1996) Change and growth in a beginning teacher of the gifted: a case study. Education
• _____(2006) Teacher turnover numbers in, and they don't look good. News & Advance (Lynchburg, VA)
• Brandt, Steve (2004) Seniority holds sway in schools; Assigning teachers... Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
• Marlow, Leslie (1997) Beginning teachers: are they still leaving the profession? The Clearing House; Mar 1, 1997;

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