Addressing teacher shortages is essential to ensure all students have qualified educators who can guide their learning. This Spotlight will help readers learn what teachers say makes their jobs more difficult; review data measuring trends in teachers' job satisfaction; explore strategies for effective special education staffing; discover what…

Background/purpose: There exists a desire to provide schoolteachers with mentors. In English schools, school-based mentors are mandatory for schools participating in Initial Teacher Education and the Early Career Framework. The purpose of this study is to highlight the need for a professional mentoring capacity within schools without burdening…

California Bay Area school districts are experiencing a teacher shortage that threatens to further widen the opportunity gap for schools with the neediest student populations. Financial incentives, administrator support levels, appropriate and consistent professional development, and mentoring are often cited as areas that cause teachers to leave…

Global early childhood education workforce shortages have highlighted the importance of recruitment and retention. The development of effective leadership has not been a retention policy focus even though effective leadership has been identified as an important driver for improving working conditions and supporting educator retention. The aim of…

Exploring methods to diversify the teacher workforce has grown over the years as the United States becomes increasingly more diverse. However, diversifying the teaching workforce has been met with challenges due to various factors, including an overall declining teacher workforce, fewer minority candidates entering the field of education, and the…

The beginning years of a teacher's career can be an overwhelming experience, and combined with being in an isolated, fly-in community, particularly during a pandemic, can be debilitating. This qualitative research is aimed to support and account for the story of a Black Afro-Caribbean, early career teacher (ECT) in a Northern Ontario First Nation…

The purpose of this study was to characterize the last decade of Black male teacher empirical research. The present study aimed to elucidate the most salient themes, commonalities, and departures in the literature on Black male educators. A quantitative content analysis was performed to systematically characterize the research trends present in…

This paper examines the newly introduced Induction Framework for teachers in England. The new term of early career teacher (ECT) has replaced the NQT label and the one-year programme has been extended to two, based on the "Early Career Framework." The reasons for the change are to aid recruitment, prevent high numbers leaving the…

Teach for America (TFA) collaborates primarily with universities in most of its 53 regions throughout the United States, yet there is little research that examines these partnerships. This qualitative interview study explored how TFA Corps Members (CMs) perceived their learning in a small college's graduate teacher education program and how…

There is currently a shortage of nurses in the United States. To further compound this problem there is a lack of faculty in nursing schools due to competing opportunities within the profession. Additionally, there are a limited number of males in the nursing faculty role. It is important to recruit and retain males as faculty because they help…

Teacher recruitment and retention concerns across the world remain a high priority to ensure the best possible education opportunities for children and young people. Related to recruitment and retention, but also important in its own right, is the wellbeing of early career teachers. This study investigated the wellbeing of early career teachers in…

Administrative support has been frequently identified as the most important factor influencing teachers' employment decisions (Burkhauser, 2017; Ladd, 2011). While many rural schools operate in hard-to-staff contexts that suffer from severe teacher shortages, it is unknown if rural teachers require rural context specific administrative support.…

This study explores how Further Education (FE) lecturers are perceived in secondary school settings and their professional prospects in the context of the UK parity status Act of 2012. Designed as a mixed method research, it sought the views of FE-trained teachers on their experience of working in secondary schools, the perceptions of recruitment…

Many Black men interested in special education careers enroll in alternate route special education programs over traditional preparation programs. However, there is little research that focuses on their reasons for choosing special education alternate route programs and what makes these programs an effective choice for Black men pursuing teaching…

This manuscript highlights the experiences of three urban teacher-residents (current and alumni) as they chronicle their journeys finding their way into their role as teachers, supporting learners through a teacher cadet program, developing through a year-long teacher residency, and then moving into their first years of teaching in the urban…