Full Description
This thought-provoking collection examines the challenge of teacher shortages that is of international concern. It presents multiple perspectives, and explores the commonalities and differences in approaches from around the world to understand possible solutions for the current teacher workforce crisis.
Acknowledging that solutions to attract and retain teachers vary by country, region and in some cases locality, the contributors scrutinise a range of workforce planning interventions at local and government level, including financial incentives and early career support.
The book draws on different perspectives to understand a range of problems that negatively affect teacher recruitment and retention, unpicking key challenges, including links between the disadvantages of location and access to teachers for coastal and rural schools, rising pupil numbers, declining school budgets and the role of professional learning in raising teacher status.
Abundant in critiques, research-informed positions and context-specific discussions about the impact of teacher workforce supply and shortages, this book will be valuable reading for teacher educators, educational leaders, education policy makers and academics in the field.
Contents
Introduction
Rowena Passy and Tanya Ovenden-Hope
Part 1: Perspectives on Teacher Recruitment and Retention in England
Chapter 1: Shortages, what shortages? Exploring school workforce supply in England
John Howson
Chapter 2: The recruitment and retention of teachers in England
James Noble-Rogers
Chapter 3: Why are teachers leaving teaching in England?
Georgina Newton
Chapter 4: A high status, research-informed profession: The foundation for successful teacher recruitment and retention?
Linda la Velle, Alexandra Kendall
Chapter 5: RETAIN: A research-informed model of continuing professional development for early career teacher retention
Tanya Ovenden-Hope, Sonia Blandford, Tim Cain, Bronwen Maxwell
Chapter 6: Understanding the contribution of professional communities of practice in education technology in influencing teacher recruitment and retention
Sarah Younie, Christina Preston
Chapter 7: Understanding school context in coastal communities
Lucy Stokes, Jake Anders, Michele Bernini, Helen Gray
Chapter 8: Understanding the challenges of teacher recruitment and retention for 'educationally isolated' schools in England
Tanya Ovenden-Hope, Rowena Passy
Chapter 9: Sense-making of educational policy and workforce supply for small schools in England
Tanya Ovenden-Hope, Ian Luke
Part 2: Perspectives on Teacher Recruitment and Retention Internationally
Chapter 10: Professional learning and recruitment and retention - What global regions can tell us
Philippa Cordingley, Bart Crisp
Chapter 11: How to recruit and retain teachers in hard-to-staff areas: A systematic review of the empirical evidence
Beng Huat See, Stephen Gorard, Rebecca Morris, Nada el-Soufi
Chapter 12: Teacher recruitment and retention in Canada: Programmes for teacher selection, support and success
Shirley Van Nuland, Catherine Whalen, Elizabeth Majocha
Chapter 13: High school teacher retention: Solutions in the Chinese context
Honggang Liu, Zongqiang Li
Chapter 14: Teacher shortage and teacher surplus: Jewish vs. Arab educational sectors in Israel
Smadar Donitsa-Schmidt, Ruth Zuzovsky
Chapter 15: Stemming the tide: A critical examination of issues, challenges and solutions to Jamaican teacher migration
Carol Hordatt Gentles
Chapter 16: Suggestions from national-level actors on how to handle retention and attrition of teachers: A case study from Sweden
Laila Niklasson
Chapter 17: The challenges of staffing schools in a cosmopolitan nation: Rethinking the recruitment and retention of teachers in Australia through a spatial lens
Philip Roberts, Natalie Downes
Afterword
Tanya Ovenden-Hope and Rowena Passy
