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British Columbia Teachers' Federation, 2018
As a significant number of British Columbia's Teachers of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (ToDHHs) reach retirement eligibility in the coming decade, this report highlights various educational, economic and workplace-related impediments to attracting and retaining qualified ToDHHs in British Columbia (BC) public schools. The report endeavours to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Deafness
Synar, Edwyna Anne – ProQuest LLC, 2010
It is estimated that 50% of beginning teachers leave the profession within the first five years on the job (Murnane, Singer, Willett, Kemple, & Olsen, 1991; Colbert & Wolff, 1992; Ingersoll, 2003b; Schlechty & Vance, 1981). When teachers depart, they take with them their knowledge of instructional techniques, students' learning styles, and…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Teacher Selection, Labor Turnover, Teaching Experience
Darling-Hammond, Linda – Phi Delta Kappan, 1994
With its inadequate training methods and disregard for teaching and learning knowledge base, Wendy Kopp's Teach for America (TFA) program continues a long tradition of devaluing urban students and deprofessionalizing teaching. One elementary school principal found that recruits lacked teaching skills and were not really dedicated to meeting…
Descriptors: Costs, Elementary Secondary Education, Quality Control, Teacher Education