Love, Hate, and Controversy in a School District: A Teacher Couple’s Messy Divorce

2021 ◽  
pp. 155545892110451
Author(s):  
Catherine Robert
Keyword(s):  
School District ◽  
Teacher Induction ◽  
Life Events ◽  
New Teacher ◽  
Quality Teachers ◽  
High Quality ◽  
New Teacher Induction ◽  
Math Teachers ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
Labor Pool

Teachers who are married to other teachers within a school district often experience their personal life events in full view of the school community. How should a principal respond when a math teacher wants to leave due to her divorce, knowing that math teachers are hard to find? Challenges in this case for campus principals and human resource administrators include (a) hiring high-quality teachers in a tight labor pool, (b) providing new teacher induction, and (c) evaluating and responding to performance issues of teachers during times of high emotional stress.

Does New Teacher Induction Really Improve Retention?

2017 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 394-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Ronfeldt ◽  
Kiel McQueen
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Induction ◽  
Teacher Turnover ◽  
Beginning Teacher ◽  
New Teacher ◽  
Early Career ◽  
First Year ◽  
Induction Programs ◽  
New Teacher Induction ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Policy Trend

Policymakers have increasingly worked to combat teacher turnover by implementing induction programs for early-career teachers. Yet the existing evidence for the effects of induction on turnover is mixed. Drawing on data from the three most recent administrations of the Schools and Staffing and Teacher Follow-Up Surveys, as well as the Beginning Teacher Longitudinal Study, this study investigates whether different kinds of induction supports predict teacher turnover among nationally representative samples of first-year teachers. We find that receiving induction supports in the first year predicts less teacher migration and attrition, suggesting that using induction to reduce new teacher turnover is a promising policy trend. We also find that levels of induction support are fairly constant for different kinds of teachers and teachers in different kinds of schools. The exceptions are that teachers who are Black and who work in schools with more students who speak English as a second language report higher levels of induction supports.

scholarly journals Principal Leadership in New Teacher Induction: Becoming Agents of Change

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Finney Cherian ◽  
Yvette Daniel
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Teacher Induction ◽  
Principal Leadership ◽  
School Principals ◽  
New Teacher ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Bolman And Deal ◽  
New Teacher Induction ◽  
Agents Of Change

This small-scale pilot study investigated the role of school principals in the induction of new teachers in Ontario, Canada. Building upon the theoretical framework of Bolman and Deal (2002), as well as interviews, document analysis, and review of extant literature, the following findings were established: (a) Principals expressed that the educative mentorship of novices requires the engagement of the entire school community; and (b) Principals, veterans, and novices saw teaching as an intellectual, moral, and political endeavor that required their collective involvement. We suggest that principals employ the notion of “communities of practice” to instill a culture of support for new teacher induction.

A Model of a New-Teacher Induction Program and Teacher Perceptions of Beneficial Components

2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 14-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Corcoran Nielsen ◽  
Arlene Lundmark Barry ◽  
Ann Brickey Addison
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Perceptions ◽  
Teacher Induction ◽  
New Teacher ◽  
New Teacher Induction ◽  
Induction Program

Curriculum for mentor development: problems and promise in the work of new teacher induction leaders

2008 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 743-770 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Z. Athanases ◽  
Jennifer Abrams ◽  
Gordon Jack ◽  
Virginia Johnson ◽  
Susan Kwock ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Induction ◽  
New Teacher ◽  
New Teacher Induction

Accelerating Teacher Effectiveness: Lessons Learned from Two Decades of New Teacher Induction

2009 ◽  
Vol 91 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Moir
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Induction ◽  
Novice Teachers ◽  
Teacher Effectiveness ◽  
Veteran Teachers ◽  
New Teacher ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Induction Programs ◽  
New Teacher Induction

The best induction programs blend support for novice teachers with expertise from veteran teachers, creating collegial groups that benefit all teachers and all students.

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