1st Edition

Teacher Retention What is Your Weakest Link?

By India J. Podsen Copyright 2002
236 Pages
by Eye On Education

236 Pages
by Eye On Education

240 Pages
by Eye On Education

This book is for you if you are: - challenged by the number of teacher vacancies at the start of your school year - finding that your most promising teachers are resigning before they complete their first few years on the job - no longer willing to accept that your veteran teachers are just marking time until their retirement Best-selling author India Podsen shows you how to - uncover and... Read more
Part I Sizing Up the Situation
1 Teacher Shortages: A Profession at Risk
2 Career Staging: A Professional Framework
3 Teacher Retention Profile
Part II Professional Career Framework
Career Stage One: Teacher Inductee
4 Career Induction
5 Reducing the Risk Factors
6 Mentoring: Doing the Right Thing
7 Implications for Continuous Professional Learning
Career Stage Two: Teacher Specialist
8 Fostering and Valuing Expertise
Career Stage Three: Teacher Leader
9 Teachers Leading Teachers
Career Stage Four: Teacher Steward
10 Professional Continuity and Commitment

Biography

Podsen, India