The first challenge is to attract new teachers, the second is to keep them. More pay might help with recruitment, but research suggests we need to look at the conditions of work to stem the losses.
Teachers with traditional certifications are more likely to continue teaching than those with alternative certifications.
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Teachers who take alternative routes to being certified tend to leave their positions sooner than educators who go through colleges of education, new research shows.
Teaching graduates must have spent time training in schools for the day they take charge of their own classes. But the past two years have laid bare the system’s failings.
Soon there will be a large wave of retirements among South African teachers, peaking around 2030 and ending in 2040.
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Dicey cultural situations and power struggles await Latina teachers in America’s schools.
American poet Amanda Gorman reads a poem during the 59th presidential inauguration at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2021.
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The rise in the popularity of Amanda Gorman, the nation’s first National Youth Poet Laureate, represents a prime opportunity for educators to use spoken word poetry in the classroom.
Starting this year, teaching students won’t be able to register as teachers unless they pass a literacy and numeracy test.
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Some universities accept students into their teaching degree programs with an ATAR as low as 35. Do we need to raise the bar, or are other factors more important than a high ATAR for teachers?
Much more must be done to keep teachers in South Africa.
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Policy needs to focus on making the teaching profession stable and more appealing. South Africa must ensure its locally trained teachers have more reason to stay in the country.
Teachers need support and education so they can discuss and promote sexuality equality.
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Sexual equality should not be mere letters and words in laws. Rather, people - in this case student teachers - must understand sexual equality as a lived reality.
What makes a good teacher? It’s not rocket science.
Placing a recruitment cap on teacher education courses does not guarantee delivery of high quality graduates, and risks limiting diversity in the profession.
Smaller class sizes do not make a difference the quality of education.
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With the current demands from industry for STEM graduates, how many are going to give up high paying jobs in industry for the short term sugar-hit of $15,000 and the stress of the classroom?
‘For too long schools have been places young people go to watch their teachers work.’
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We need a major revamp of teacher education from the inside out that changes the model to provide all children with the education that is right for them.