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Teacher Recruitment and Retention
Every child deserves to be placed in a classroom taught by a talented, dedicated, and highly qualified teacher. With numerous reports indicating the difficulties many school districts are having in recruiting and retaining effective teachers, questions regarding the most effective strategies to meet this goal have surfaced:
- Why do teachers stay in the profession? Why do teachers leave the profession?
- What are the characteristics of schools and districts that successfully recruit and retain effective teachers?
- What types of policies show evidence of efficacy in recruiting and retaining effective teachers?
Resources
- Teacher Turnover in At-Risk Schools (Webcast)
- TQ Source on Recruitment and Retention
Teacher-Pay Incentives: Do They Work?
Sabrina Laine, Ph.D., director of the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality, fielded questions about teacher-pay incentives during a live online chat hosted in October 2006 by Education Week. The chat—titled Teacher-Pay Incentives: Do They Work?—featured 45 questions from teachers, school administrators, government representatives, parents, and college students majoring in education.
Dr. Laine was joined on the panel by Tricia Coulter, Ph.D., director of the Teaching Quality and Leadership Institute at ECS, and Ben Schaefer, program manager at the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future. The three discussed the research, or lack of research, on the effectiveness of teacher-pay incentives. A PDF version of the transcript of the chat is available.
Download an Adobe® Reader® PDF version of the transcript of Teacher-Pay Incentives: Do They Work? (224 KB).
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