The challenge to teacher education created by today's changing demographics involves excellence and equity. The present hostile climate at colleges and universities for faculty of color requires a creative readjustment of the tenure and promotion process. A discussion for preparing, mentoring, and retraining future teacher educators of color using…

Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) states are implementing policies that provide incentives to attract and retain teachers and increase student performance. Every state has unique priorities. This report includes a framework for thinking about priorities for a state based on the SREB's teacher supply and demand research (reducing new teacher…

Draws on recent data from surveys and research conducted by the U.S. Department of Education to sketch the outline of the approaching changes in the teacher labor market and to comment on the issue of teacher quality. Enduring teacher quality requires institutional reform in the teacher preparation and compensation system. (SM)

Based on a labor market analysis and studies of prospective faculty retirement trends in the absence of mandatory retirement, two different considerations are seen as influencing academic staffing: an acceleration of faculty leaving the professions, and the refusal of ineffective faculty to retire. (MSE)

The survey of University of Bergen (Norway) teaching staff (N=601) found the leading reason for intending to leave the institution was collegial relations. Other reasons predicting intention to leave were in the area of general job satisfaction with staff who found their work less intrinsically satisfying more likely to plan on leaving.…

Research conducted over the last decade yields no simple solution to increasing job satisfaction among educators. Factors affecting job satisfaction include management styles, demographics, financial support, and class size, to name a few. Focused upon is the role of school administrators in developing and maintaining satisfied teachers. (seven…

A survey investigated demographic factors, work conditions, professional and career development, the effect of teacher on social and family lives, and relationships with parents, students, fellow teachers, and administrative personnel as factors in teacher resignation. Differences in male and female perceptions were also examined. (MSE)

Examines plausible personal and school-related patterns believed to contribute to changes in teachers' career patterns over a relatively long time. Results with samples of 455 current and 331 former teachers demonstrate several predictors of teacher persistence. Career patterns varied depending on subjects taught, teacher background, and other…

This study of the effects of work-related variables on 658 special educators, including 159 teachers of students with emotional disorders, found that workplace conditions, job satisfaction, and principal support had positive effects on intent to stay in teaching, whereas role-related problems had negative effects on intent to stay. (DB)

Presents data from surveys and interviews with 129 beginning secondary teachers (trained, untrained, and partially trained) and a survey of school principals in Hong Kong. Differences between trained and untrained groups indicated a need for preservice training and induction for all beginning teachers. (SM)

The scholarship of teaching has its roots in reflective teaching practice. Every time a teacher is taken by surprise at something that has occurred in a course, whether he or she prefers that it not be repeated, or that it take place regularly, an opportunity exists for the scholarship of teaching to begin. In this essay, the author's intent is to…

The shortage of special education teachers is due in part to high attrition, especially among new entrants. Improving teacher retention and quality requires a holistic view of new teachers' needs, an understanding of the contexts in which they work, as well as the types of support that are needed. A leader's model highlights major considerations…

The success of Project Launch, a teacher induction program sponsored by a regional teacher center and a consortium of universities, is compared for rural and non-rural participants. Indicators of success include teacher accomplishment of action plan goals, teacher self and mentor assessment of teaching strengths related to action plan goals,…

This article discusses teacher burnout which scholars define as a condition caused by depersonalization, exhaustion, and a diminished sense of accomplishment. A psychological model of how stress leads to burnout describes it as a syndrome resulting from teachers' inability to protect themselves against threats to their self esteem and well-being.…

With No Child Left Behind's call for highly qualified teachers, the stakes for recruiting and retaining teachers have never been more important. Alabama, like other states, has struggled to develop policies and programs that effectively staff all classrooms with quality educators. The Center for Teaching Quality, with the support of SERVE, has…