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- 1. 0 What if teaching were the most attractive and compelling profession in the nation? Hi! I’m thinking about teaching in your district. What do you think?
- 2. Schooling is the most human of enterprises. The mark of great schools is not this reading program or that staffing model, but educators who approach these things with verve, expertise, clarity, and commitment. In successful schools, educators are invested in the program, have time to get good at it, and cooperate to make it work. – Rick Hess, Education Week, 7/2/15
- 3. Teacher quality is the #1 driver of student performance. There is no relationship between teacher quality and how we assign, compensate and support teachers. What does the data say?
- 4. Demand for teachers is rising, but supply of candidates is dropping N.C. teacher crisis looms Charlotte Observer, 9/9/14 3 Teacher retirements outpacing new hires Gannett Newspapers, 12/1/14 Area schools struggling to find teachers Rapid City (S.D.) Journal, 6/24/14 School starts while teaching jobs remain unfilled Tucson News Now, 8/1/14 Steep drops seen in teacher-prep enrollment numbers Education Week, 10/21/14
- 5. Hi! I’m thinking about teaching in your district. What do you think? Great move! Interesting. We should talk. DON’T DO IT!
- 6. …from these teachers? What differentiates the experience of these teachers… Example: Data from a large Midwestern district Most effective teachers Less effective teachers Unrated teachers “Detractors” Least likely to recommend “Passives” and “Promoters” More likely to recommend 1% ~25% ~25% ~25% ~25%
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- And this is before we even think about teacher quality – which, according to the data, is the most important factor in a student’s academic performance. But there is no relationship between teacher quality – or measured student outcomes – and how we compensate teachers, let alone how we assign them to schools, or the kinds of supports we provide.
- Today, we are experiencing a teacher shortage. There are a lot of reasons for this, some of which have been in the works for decades. But one major contributing factor is the fact that teaching has become even less desirable as a profession than it was just a few years ago. We need more teachers, but the supply of people who want to teach is shrinking. This all happened in a slow economy, when job prospects for many people weren’t all that good – that’s how much many people don’t want to teach.