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SchoolSpring » Entries tagged with "teacher"

TEACHING – DON’T GIVE UP ON YOUR JOB SEARCH!

August 3rd, 2011 | Add a Comment

SOME INSIGHT FROM A JOB SEEKER WHO WAS JUST HIRED FOR A NEW TEACHING JOB: “SchoolSpring played a huge part in helping me find a teaching job. I constantly received e-mails with available jobs and was fortunate enough to be contacted for interviews for several of the jobs I applied for. It is a very competitive market, so do not be discouraged if you aren’t contacted for an interview or even a quick acknowledgment that your application was received. For every 15 jobs I applied for, I heard back from maybe one and it took well over a year and a half for me to find the position I really wanted.” ~Jennifer from Towson, MD~ … Read entire article »

Filed under: Hiring, Interview Questions, Recruiting

Every politician who micromanages education today should visit a PAR meeting.

June 10th, 2011 | Add a Comment

Every politician who micromanages education today should visit a PAR meeting.

HELPING TEACHERS HELP THEMSELVES (NY Times)… COULD THIS WORK IN YOUR SCHOOL? The Montgomery County Public Schools system here has a highly regarded program for evaluating teachers, providing them extra support if they are performing poorly and getting rid of those who do not improve. The program, Peer Assistance and Review — known as PAR — uses several hundred senior teachers to mentor both newcomers and struggling veterans. If the mentoring does not work, the PAR panel … Read entire article »

Filed under: Education Reform, Firing Teachers, Future of Education, Hiring, Recruiting, teacher evaluation, Teacher motivation, Teacher skills

Education Recruiting – The High Cost of Teacher Turnover

April 11th, 2011 | Add a Comment

Education Recruiting – The High Cost of Teacher Turnover

The National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future (NCTAF) estimates that the national cost of public school teacher turnover could be over $7.3 billion a year. “In 2007, the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future (NCTAF) completed an 18-month study of the costs of teacher turnover in five school districts – Chicago Public Schools (Chicago, Illinois), Milwaukee Public Schools (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), Granville County Schools (Granville, North Carolina), Jemez Valley Public Schools (New Mexico), and Santa … Read entire article »

Filed under: Education Reform, Featured, Future of Education, Hiring, Recruiting, teacher evaluation

Why Become a Highly Qualfied Teacher?

January 28th, 2011 | Add a Comment

‘Some districts require’ their teachers to be “Highly Qualified” (HQT), and individual states have specific descriptions of what a teacher must do to become an HQT. Urban, hard to teach districts are suppose to employ only Highly Qualified teachers and if a teacher is not Highly Qualified, parents and students are supposed to be notified. Should you take the steps to become Highly Qualified? Consider the new legislation before you make your decision. On January 23, 2011 Valerie Strauss, for The Washington Post, wrote, “So they’ve gone ahead and done it. U.S. legislators passed legislation that includes people in teacher training programs as “highly qualified” teachers.” “Opponents of this definition of “highly qualified” note that these non-certified teachers are concentrated in high-poverty schools, serving children who actually need … Read entire article »

Filed under: Student Performance, Teacher motivation, Teacher skills

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 »

Filed under: Featured, Recruiting

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