Teacher Exodus (eBook)

Reversing the Trend and Keeping Teachers in the Classrooms

Ernest J. Zarra III (Autor)

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2018
136 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4758-4372-9 (ISBN)

Infos

The Teacher Exodus looks at the reasons teachers are leaving the teaching profession and why adults are choosing not to enter it. The book explores the bureaucratic barriers that teachers face in twenty-first century American classrooms and includes steps to take toward reinvigorating passion for the profession.

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The Teacher Exodus: Reversing the Trend and Keeping Teachers in the Classrooms is an authentic examination of many of the reasons public school teachers are leaving the profession. It also takes a hard look at why students are no longer selecting teaching as their career choice. American culture is at a tipping point and many politicians and bureaucrats are tinkering with culture through racial policies and social engineering, in efforts to empower students, rather than stem the tide of teacher attrition. Teachers are frustrated by requirements to implement social and intervention programs that fall outside their training, which limits the moral purpose they envisioned when they first entered the profession. Across the nation, teachers are feeling marginalized and impacted by policies handed down from above, which actually elevate students over teachers. Teachers sense their profession has been reduced to classroom monitoring and facilitating, which they did not sign up for! They are restricted in their classroom management and must employ a series of intervention strategies just to defend their actions of discipline. If America is to reverse the trend of teachers leaving classrooms, there must be genuinely supportive efforts to reinvigorate adults to pursue teaching and bureaucrats must release teachers to work their skills. There must be a reversal of the mindset that teachers are leaving education because education has left them. One way to do this is for bureaucrats and education administrators to once again empower teachers to be the local arbiters of education for their classrooms.

Autor

Dr. Ernest J. Zarra, III is a lifelong educator. He and his wife Suzi, have two adult children. Ernie has authored eight books and over a dozen journal articles, served as a district professional development leader, and has presented as keynote speaker for various educational, civic, and church gatherings.

Inhalt

List of FiguresForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1- Teacher Migration from EducationTeachers Leaving the ProfessionPublic Education is in TroubleAmerican Culture is at a Tipping PointTeacher ShortagesConsidering the ConstraintsBlaming TeachersJustice for ProfessionalsStudents with Special DesignationsTheory or Reality?The Role of RaceReversing the TrendNotesChapter 2- Fed-Up: Bureaucracy and PoliticsEducational Equity and Restorative JusticeInequity of a Different KindDisparity in TreatmentLegal RemediesA Change in PerspectiveParental PowerFear of ActionTaking a StandSocio-Cultural Changes Impact Schools and StudentsPolicy Based on Race?Common SenseGaining the Attention of the BureaucracyImpacts of School BoardsReversing the TrendNotesChapter 3- Teachers Fighting for ChangeThe Marginalization of EducationTeachers Exiting the ClassroomStates Making Changes to Support TeachersMandatory Expulsions?Learning from MinnesotaSocial Justice and Zero-ToleranceDiscipline Policy FailureZero-Tolerance PoliciesStanding Up and Fighting BackReversing the TrendNotesChapter 4- Classroom Management and Teacher SupportClassroom Behavior management StrategiesIs Corporal Punishment the Answer?Welfare of the TeacherEquity MindednessThe Challenges are RealEffective Classroom ManagementAdministrators’ EffortsImpact of Generation Z as TeachersReluctance is Dealing with ViolenceSupportive LeadershipReversing the Trend NotesChapter 5- Intervention, Training, and RetainingEvery Teacher as an Intervention PractitionerIntervention ProgramsA Look at PBIS TrainingDiscipline as InterventionBehavior Intervention Strategy: Crowd-FriendingProfessional Development: Training for TeachersWho Expect to Work with Generation Z StudentsTeacher Education Program TrainingRetaining TeachersThe Challenges to Improving Recruitment and Teacher RetentionReversing the TrendNotesIndexAbout the Author

Produkt-Details

• Zusatzinfo: 1 Illustrations including: - 1 Black & White Illustrations.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Unterrichtsvorbereitung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: Administration • beuracracy • Classroom management • Elementary School • High School • middle school • new teachers • pbis • professional development • supporting teachers • Teacher Education • teacher politics • teacher retention • Teacher support • young teachers
• ISBN-10: 1-4758-4372-0 / 1475843720
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4758-4372-9 / 9781475843729