Retaining Effective Teachers

A Guide for Hiring, Induction, and Support

Mary C. Clement

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9798216212805
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Retaining Effective Teachers provides all administrators with step-by-step strategies for hiring and keeping the best teachers. Teachers who serve on search committees and as teacher leaders will value the book as a guide for inducting and mentoring their new colleagues.
The author has summarized the most useful research on hiring, induction, mentoring, and teacher support. The many appendices can be used immediately to ask behavior-based interview questions that determine the strongest candidates. Those who lead the induction programs have ready-made lessons and resources for improving orientation, seminars, and mentor training. The research on working with millennial teachers provides insights into ways to support them as high-performing teachers. Excellent summaries of how to observe and supervise teachers provide school leaders with collaborative ways to support and retain their faculties.

This book presents a common-sense approach for developing district and school retention plans that will retain the most effective teachers needed in today's and tomorrow's schools. The strategies outlined in the book create help to create schools as high-quality workplaces that will retain teachers.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Creating a Retention Plan
• 2 This Generation of Teachers
• 3 Retention Begins with Hiring
• 4 Best Practices in Orientation
• 5 Mentoring Programs
• 6 Professional Development for the First Five Years
• 7 Supportive Administration, Supervision, and Evaluation
• 8 Developing Teacher Leaders
• 9 An Improved Workplace for Teachers
• 10 Teacher Longevity
• Appendix 3.1—Preliminary Interview Checklist
• Appendix 3.2—Question Bank for Early Elementary School Positions
• Appendix 3.3—Question Bank for Upper Elementary School Positions
• Appendix 3.4—Question Bank for Middle School Positions
• Appendix 3.5—Question Bank for High School Positions
• Appendix 3.6—Question Bank for Special Areas
• Appendix 3.7—Question Bank for Special Education Interviews
• Appendix 3.8—Evaluation of Candidate Answers
• Appendix 3.9—Creating a Rubric to Evaluate Answers
• Appendix 3.10—Sample Survey of New Hires
• Appendix 3.11—Review of Annual Hiring
• Appendix 4.1—Evaluation of New Teacher Orientation
• Appendix 4.2—New Teacher Orientation Active Learning Strategies
• Appendix 5.1—Mentor Application
• Appendix 5.2—Evaluation of Mentor Training
• Appendix 5.3—Mentor and New Teacher Discussion List
• Appendix 5.4—Evaluation of the Mentoring Program
• Appendix 5.5—Evaluation of the Mentoring Program
• Appendix 6.1—New Teacher Professional Development Survey
• Appendix 6.2—Lesson Plan on Parent Communication and Conferences
• Appendix 6.3—Lesson Plan for New Teacher Workshop on Classroom Management
• Appendix 6.4—Year One Induction Workshop Evaluation
• Appendix 7.1—Observation Preconference Worksheet
• Appendix 7.2—Verbatim Notes
• Appendix 7.3—Observation Postconference Template
• Appendix 7.4—First Classroom Walk-Through Checklist
• Appendix 7.5—The Walk-Through Observation
• Appendix 8.1—Panel Discussion on Earning a Master’s Degree
• Appendix 9.1—Teachers’ Needs and Wishes
• Appendix 9.2—Parent Satisfaction Survey
• Appendix 9.3—Survey of School Climate for Teachers
• Appendix 9.4—Four-Step Approach for Classroom Management
• Appendix 9.5—A Four-Step Instructional Plan
• Appendix 9.6—Sample Quick Teacher Survey
• Appendix 10.1—Stress Management Survey
• Appendix 10.2—Time Management Activities
• References
• Index
• About the Author