Attracting and Keeping the Best Teachers Issues and Opportunities /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sullivan, Anna (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Johnson, Bruce (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Simons, Michele (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education, 16
• Subjects: Teaching.; Professional education.; Vocational education.; Educational policy.; Education and state.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Professional & Vocational Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.

This book challenges dominant thinking about early career teachers and their work. It offers an in-depth and critical analysis of policies concerning the work of early career teachers and how they are supported during this critical period, when they are highly vulnerable to leaving the profession. M...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• Part I
• 2 Unpacking teacher quality: Key issues for early career teachers
• 3 'Classroom ready teachers': Gaps, silences and contradictions in the Australian Report into Teacher Education
• 4 Shifting the frame: Representations of Early Career Teachers in the Australian Print Media
• 5 Early career teachers and their need for support: Thinking again
• Part II
• 6 How school leaders attract, recruit, develop and retain the quality early career teachers they want
• 7 Connecting Theory and Practice: Collaborative Figured Worlds
• 8 Recruiting, Retaining and Supporting Early Career Teachers for Rural Schools
• 9 Reforming Replacement Teaching: A Game Changer for the Development of Early Career Teaching?
• 10 Quality Retention and Resilience in the Middle and Later Years of Teaching
• 11 Teacher Retention: Some Concluding Thoughts.