Operations Management - Book1.p - Dr. Abdulfatah A. Salem
What if teaching were the most compelling profession in the nation?
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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
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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%
Editor's Notes
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.
