Netting an Elusive Breed: How to Attract and Retain Better Teachers

Autor/in	Warner, Mark R.
Titel	Netting an Elusive Breed: How to Attract and Retain Better Teachers
Quelle	In: Education Next, 4 (2004) 4, S.38-43 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1539-9664
Schlagwörter	Leitfaden; Teacher Effectiveness; Educational Environment; Teacher Recruitment; Teacher Persistence; Labor Turnover; Teaching (Occupation); Teacher Qualifications; Public Schools; Teacher Competencies; Disadvantaged Schools; Disadvantaged Youth; Low Achievement; School Policy; Mentors; School Business Relationship; Virginia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Effectiveness of teaching; Instructional effectiveness; Lehrerleistung; Unterrichtserfolg; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Lehrerrekrutierung; Teaching; Lehrberuf; Lehrqualifikation; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Lehrkunst; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; Unterdurchschnittliche Leistung; Schulpolitik
Abstract	The most important asset of any enterprise is the talent and enthusiasm of its workforce. In operating a successful business, there is no greater challenge than to attract and retain the best-qualified, hardest-working employees. And perhaps the most important factors in keeping the best people are providing workers with the tools to succeed at what they do and ensuring that they feel a sense of respect and empowerment about their work. Businesses that fail to offer these things will lose their brightest employees to competitors that do. In this article, the author uses his experience as a business owner and as the governor of Virginia to apply these lessons to the single greatest challenge facing their public schools today--the challenge of providing the best possible teachers to students in the lowest-achieving schools. He outlines some strategies for recruiting and retaining quality teachers, and reinforces the simple truth that, just like other professionals, teachers want to succeed at the job they set out to do, and that the best and brightest will often gravitate to where they are respected, appreciated, and empowered to do their jobs effectively. (Contains 2 figures.) (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Hoover Institution. Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-6010. Tel: 800-935-2882; Fax: 650-723-8626; e-mail: educationnext@hoover.stanford.edu; Web site: http://www.hoover.org/publications/ednext
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10