England is experiencing a teacher recruitment and retention crisis which has only worsened since the COVID-19 pandemic. One-third of teachers leave before they have completed five years. This paper discusses the results of a small-scale study completed with six inner-London secondary teachers which focuses on their everyday experiences in these…

This study analyzes the influence of locus of control and supervision channeled to an organization as a whole on organizational commitment and examines and describes the influence of locus of control and supervision on organizational commitment. The instrument uses questionnaires. The sample is determined by proportional stratified random…

This article explored public secondary school teachers' entry career progression expectations and their perceived achievements of the expectations of teachers and school administrators in the classrooms in Bukoba District, Tanzania. The study employed a qualitative approach. Data collected from 62 respondents through interviews were subjected to…

In this paper, we investigate the working lives of three Australian teachers in the hardest-to-staff schools as they tell their stories of how teacher attrition has impacted them and others. Drawing on Zavelevsky & Shapira-Lishchinsky's ecological framework (2020) we analyse their work-stories to better understand issues impacting the teaching…

The present study examined whether secondary school (SE) teachers (N = 324, M[subscript age] = 37.97) and university (UNI) teachers (N = 225, M[subscript age] = 44.80) with a firmly grounded and well-explored teaching identity would report better work-related well-being and would adopt a more motivating teaching style. We expected the opposite for…

This study has explored the link between school principals' transformational leadership style to teachers' organizational commitment in Addis Ababa government secondary schools employing correlational research design. Stratified random sampling technique was applied to draw a representative sample of 385 teachers for the study. The result of this…

This study aims to assess and examine secondary school teachers' perceptions of school climate and job satisfaction in five diverse countries: Japan, Korea, Finland, the United States of America (USA), and Australia. It explores the impact of school climate on teachers' job satisfaction, a pivotal factor influencing teacher retention, mobility,…

The tyranny of distance is often perceived as the greatest challenge for teacher retention in rural and remote schools in Australia. Perhaps more accurately, it is the tyranny of placelessness. In this paper, we explore the role of place-connectedness and racial literacy in shaping the interactions of 21 primary and secondary teachers with the…

Teacher turnover continues to be a problem in various private secondary schools in rural Tanzania, impacting students' academic performance in the national standardized examinations every year. This qualitative exploratory case study used secondary data to examine factors influencing the Problem in rural Tanzania's private secondary schools. Three…

Of the teachers who leave the profession, about half of them are dissatisfied with the school they work at. Teachers' school environment can have both supportive and adverse effects on their satisfaction with school and teaching in general. Yet this relationship might be different for the Nordic countries than for other European countries as the…

This study aims to explore the relationship between learning agility and organizational commitment attitudes among primary and secondary school teachers in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). Given the evolving scientific and social landscape, continuous professional development is crucial for teachers to adapt to the dynamic nature of…

Caring teachers play pertinent roles in instilling good values and harnessing efforts toward elevating meaningful relationships with students. Teacher Commitment (TC), a pertinent factor in effective teaching, strongly enhances students' learning, yet it is under-researched, as a mediator to Teachers' Caring Behaviour (TCB), especially in an Asian…

This paper stems from a broader study that foregrounded an existing mentoring programme against the backdrop of low teacher retention in the South African schooling system. It works from the premise that beginner teachers are exiting the teaching profession within the first three to five years of teaching. This research suggests that one way of…

This narrative inquiry explores a beginning teacher's counter story experiences in a high-needs secondary school in rural China. The study examines storied data culled from interviews, observations, and digital photos and videos of the participant's daily life. The research intent was to discover how the participant teacher lived counter stories…

This study aimed to assess the applicability of the Teachers' Resilience Scale (TRS) among Greek and Polish teachers and explore whether nationality and sociodemographic factors influence teachers' engagement with resilience protective factors. A total of 1622 teachers participated, providing TRS responses and sociodemographic information. Greek…