ERIC Number: ED499801
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2003-Nov
Pages: 47
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ISSN: ISSN-1447-1957
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Initiatives to Address Teacher Shortage. ACER Policy Briefs. Issue 5
Lonsdale, Michele; Ingvarson, Lawrence
ACER Press (Australian Council for Educational Research)
This paper is in response to an invitation from the Victorian Department of Education and Training to undertake a targeted review of effective teaching recruitment strategies. The paper provides a "snapshot" of what is happening in other States and Territories and in selected countries overseas. The main focus of the review is on the kinds of strategies that different educational jurisdictions have used to overcome teacher supply problems. This review looks briefly at practices in other Australian States and Territories, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States and New Zealand. The most effective approaches appear to be those that have been implemented as part of a global strategy that looks not simply at the immediate problem but at ways of making teaching an attractive profession in the long-term. (Contains 1 summary table and 47 endnotes.) [This paper was published by the Australian Council for Educational Research and is based on a study commissioned by the Department of Education and Training, Victoria.]
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Teacher Recruitment, Cross Cultural Studies, Global Approach, Teacher Supply and Demand, Educational Administration, Preservice Teachers, Beginning Teachers, Career Change, Special Education Teachers, Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Persistence, Scholarships, Career Choice, Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness, Loan Repayment, Student Financial Aid, Student Recruitment, Mentors
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Publication Type: Information Analyses; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia; Canada; New Zealand; United Kingdom; United States
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