An urban school district developed strategies for recruiting and retaining minority teachers. Examination of data on teachers hired over a 3-year period found the retention rate for African American teachers was slightly higher than that of European American teachers. Teachers with at least 3 years' experience in the district were surveyed as to…

This book reports on research conducted in England and Wales to (a) discover factors that influenced promotions in the teaching profession and compare these findings with teachers' beliefs about influences on promotion, (b) study the procedures by which teachers were promoted and discover teachers' experiences and opinions about these procedures,…

This study determined the attitudes of teachers toward the negotiation procedures presently employed, and developed an instrument to predict the level of support and desired involvement of teachers in negotiation procedures. Results of the investigation implied that teachers distinguish between two general negotiation areas: (1) professional…

Describes differences between community colleges and four-year colleges and explores issues involved in staffing community colleges; stresses that individuals should choose jobs that provide personal satisfaction. (GW)

Affective skills, says the author, are too often overlooked when sizing up a potential teacher. Some helpful interview techniques are outlined here that can clarify an applicant's attitudes toward both himself and children. (Editor)

Presents a discussion one year after the author received a tenure-track job. Describes the strategies and tactics that made his search a success. Addresses the period after graduate students have defended their thesis and are searching for a full-time academic job. Notes that the time after his defense was chaotic, bewildering, but invaluable for…

The study reported in this book demonstrates that teachers engage in career planning as systematically as members of any other profession: career movement of teachers is patterned; status, rewards, location and working conditions matter; and the costs and benefits of vertical and horizontal mobility are carefully calculated. The book is organized…

Describes a study conducted to determine what dissatisfies and what motivates vocational teachers and to discover the similarity of the teacher motivation problem to industry's worker motivation problem. (GR)

Relates the difficulties of part-time faculty, particularly the problem of maintaining a positive attitude and a sense of humor. (RL)

Discusses the need to distinguish between the person filling the position and the position itself in examining all the issues and concerns surrounding the employment of non-tenure-line faculty, lecturers, instructors, and adjuncts. Concludes that educators must focus efforts upon the entire body of non-tenure-line faculty, striving to create…

Provides statistical demographic profiles of teachers in public, Catholic, and private schools. Presents measures of average teachers' professionalism, and numbers of teachers by age who are leaving the profession. Focuses on the percentage of schools that offer benefits, and the teacher attitudes regarding teaching conditions. Lists the…

Presents a discussion one year after the author received a tenure-track job and describes the strategies and tactics that made her search a success. Discusses certain strategies that candidates conducting a local search can employ to maximize their credentials and opportunities. (SG)

The dynamics of the teacher labor market were examined, focusing upon the problems of which teachers leave the profession, why they leave, where they go, and what it would take to retain them as public school teachers. In-depth case studies were made of six universities and six school districts. Data were collected by interviews (n=180) with…

Some Scottish teachers voluntarily change sector from secondary to primary or vice versa, requiring them to take a shortened training ("conversion") course and assume probationary status. This paper analyzes 122 teachers' career-change motives, distinguishing between strategic reasons (more jobs in the new sector) and magnetic reasons…

In this chapter, the authors examine developments in the teacher workforce and in the occupation of teaching across recent generations. They take their point of departure from the perspective of prevailing policy discourse on enduring problems of educational equity, asking not only how teaching has evolved in recent decades but more specifically…