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SchoolSpring » Entries tagged with "quality teachers"

How to recruit, grow, and keep teachers in a tough urban climate

January 11th, 2011 | Add a Comment

Boston thinks it has the answer…the Boston Teacher Residency Institute (btr). Although the tough economic times have made teaching jobs tough to get, inner city schools have a hard time recruiting and retaining quality teachers because their applicants are not prepared to teach in that type of environment. (…”no education theory class will help Clinton Lassiter engage a student who says that her top goal for eighth grade is to not get pregnant”) “Former Boston superintendent Thomas Payzant, who helped start btr, recalls that his biggest problem with new teachers was not subject knowledge or pedagogy, but under-preparation for the environment.” “’What we were getting when teachers arrived in Boston classrooms were people who were pretty well grounded in content and had some sense of how to teach. But they were not … Read entire article »

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Teachers worth $400,000?

January 11th, 2011 | Add a Comment

School Administrators – How are you to create a budget that will wind up giving students the education they deserve , quality teachers they deserve, and the resources to obtain that education, but on the other hand satisfy the tax-payers in your town where teacher salaries are constantly scrutinized and judged? The Huffington Post recently reported the following… Consider the recent findings that showed quality teachers are worth $400,000; however in-effective teachers could be costing the Nation trillions of dollars. “The policy of eliminating the least effective teachers is very consistent with the McKinsey analysis of the policies found in high-performing school systems around the world (Barber and Mourshed 2007). Their analysis suggests that the best school systems do not allow ineffective teachers to remain in the classroom for long.” Full Article … Read entire article »

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