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01 SES 13 B, Teacher Professional Learning As a Response to Issues of Teacher Retention and Recruitment: Perspectives from Iceland, Sweden And England
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Teacher retention is a current, and widespread, serious issue (Guha, Hyler and Darling-Hammond, 2017). Despite an increase in the routes into teaching in England through a range of Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programmes (Whitty, 2014, 2017) teacher recruitment and retention remains problematic (Carmichael, 2017). In England it is exacerbated by factors including professional status, workload, accountability and public sector pay freezes (Carmichael, 2017). Simultaneously, there is increasing awareness of the importance of quality teaching and its impact on school performance and children’s outcomes (Hanushek, 2011). Investing in teachers is a model successfully adopted in other countries, such a Finland where teachers have greater professional status, pay and autonomy than in England (Carmichael, 2017). One way of investing in teachers is to provide high quality continuing professional development (CPD) that addresses both personal and professional aspirations. Higher Education awards potentially offer career progression towards leadership, personal fulfilment (Donaldson, 2011) and address an understanding that ITE is, of itself, insufficient to prepare individuals for a long-term teaching career (Donaldson, 2011). This is echoed by the BERA-RSA enquiry ‘Research and the Teaching Profession: building the capacity for a self-improving system’ (2014). In response, some schools are proactively engaging in professional learning including Masters awards with the aim of retaining and developing quality staff required for the challenges of teaching in 21st century. This paper reports on a study exploring teachers’ perceptions of the value and accessibility of Masters level CPD in teacher retention. Analysis of semi-structured interviews and questionnaires provides insights into personal and professional implications from such CPD and offers suggestions for teacher retention.
References
BERA (2014) Research and the Teaching Professions: building the capacity for self- improving system. https://www.bera.ac.uk/project/research-and-teacher-education accessed 15/1/2016 Carmichael, N., (2017). Recruitment and retention of teachers: Fifth Report of Session 2016–17 Donaldson, G., (2011). Teaching Scotland’s future: report of a review of teacher education in Scotland. Scottish Government (Scotland). Guha, R., Hyler, ME., Darling-Hammond, L., (2017)The Teacher Residency A Practical Path to Recruitment and Retention. American Educator aft.org Hanushek, E., (2011) The economic value of higher teacher quality Economics of Education Review Volume 30, Issue 3, June 2011, Pages 466-479 Whitty, G., (2014) Recent Developments in teacher training and their consequences for the “University project” in education. Oxford Review of Education Vol. 40, Iss. 4, 2014 Whitty, G., (2017) The Marketization of Teacher Education: Threat or Opportunity? A Companion to Research in Teacher Education pp 373-383
Programme by Network 2019
00. Central Events (Keynotes, EERA-Panel, EERJ Round Table, Invited Sessions)
Network 1. Continuing Professional Development: Learning for Individuals, Leaders, and Organisations
Network 2. Vocational Education and Training (VETNET)
Network 3. Curriculum Innovation
Network 4. Inclusive Education
Network 5. Children and Youth at Risk and Urban Education
Network 6. Open Learning: Media, Environments and Cultures
Network 7. Social Justice and Intercultural Education
Network 8. Research on Health Education
Network 9. Assessment, Evaluation, Testing and Measurement
Network 10. Teacher Education Research
Network 11. Educational Effectiveness and Quality Assurance
Network 12. LISnet - Library and Information Science Network
Network 13. Philosophy of Education
Network 14. Communities, Families and Schooling in Educational Research
Network 15. Research Partnerships in Education
Network 16. ICT in Education and Training
Network 17. Histories of Education
Network 18. Research in Sport Pedagogy
Network 19. Ethnography
Network 20. Research in Innovative Intercultural Learning Environments
Network 22. Research in Higher Education
Network 23. Policy Studies and Politics of Education
Network 24. Mathematics Education Research
Network 25. Research on Children's Rights in Education
Network 26. Educational Leadership
Network 27. Didactics – Learning and Teaching
Network 28. Sociologies of Education
Network 29. Reserach on Arts Education
Network 30. Research on Environmental und Sustainability Education
Network 31. Research on Language and Education (LEd)
Network 32. Organizational Education
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