Assistant Teachers, Workplace Satisfaction, and the Creation of a Culturally Competent Workforce Pipeline in Head Start

Autor/inn/en	Jacoby, Jennifer Wallace; Corwin-Renner, Allegra
Titel	Assistant Teachers, Workplace Satisfaction, and the Creation of a Culturally Competent Workforce Pipeline in Head Start
Quelle	In: Journal of Career Development, 49 (2022) 5, S.971-988 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Jacoby, Jennifer Wallace)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0894-8453
DOI	10.1177/0894845321993237
Schlagwörter	Teacher Aides; Federal Programs; Low Income Students; Social Services; Preschool Education; Teacher Recruitment; Bilingual Teachers; Work Environment; Job Satisfaction; Labor Turnover; Teacher Attitudes; Teacher Salaries; Faculty Development; Professional Education; Cultural Awareness + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Handreichung; Lehrerhilfe; Social service; Soziale Dienstleistung; Soziale Dienste; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Lehrerrekrutierung; Arbeitsmilieu; Labor; Labour; Satisfaction; Arbeit; Zufriedenheit; Lehrerverhalten; Lehrerbesoldung; Lehrervergütung; Berufsausbildung; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität
Abstract	Early care and education programs like Head Start provide a critical foundation for later achievement for children from vulnerable communities. Notably, recruiting and retaining bilingual teachers is an ongoing struggle for many Head Start agencies. Assistant teachers are more likely to be bilingual than their lead teacher counterparts (Jacoby, in press) and are important contributors to a workforce pipeline that diversifies staff. We conducted this qualitative study with 35 assistant teachers to understand how workplace attributes influence satisfaction and job retention in Head Start. Workplace attributes such as wages and support for professional education and those with symbolic value, such as the robustness of the program, both played an important role. We also found that the "instrumental-symbolic framework" demonstrated utility for understanding how workplace attributes might be leveraged to recruit and retain linguistically and culturally competent teaching staff. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01