Retaining Effective Teachers : A Guide for Hiring, Induction, and Support.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- How to Use This Book -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Creating a Retention Plan -- Begin with the Research -- Retaining Teachers in High-Needs Fields -- A System-Wide Retention Plan -- Summary Points for Success -- 2 This Generation of Teachers -- Generational Research -- Summary Points for Success -- 3 Retention Begins with Hiring -- The Hiring Plan -- Behavior-Based Interviewing -- Assessment of Hiring Practice -- Summary Points for Success -- 4 Best Practices in Orientation -- Steps of Orientation -- Individualizing Orientation -- Summary Points for Success -- 5 Mentoring Programs -- Implementing a Mentoring Program -- Using Mentor Teams and Long-Term Mentoring -- Mentor Program Evaluation -- Summary Points for Success -- 6 Professional Development for the First Five Years -- Planning Considerations for First-Year Workshops -- Induction Programming for Years Two through Five -- Summary Points for Success -- 7 Supportive Administration, Supervision, and Evaluation -- Supervision and Evaluation -- Evaluation of Teachers -- Summary Points for Success -- 8 Developing Teacher Leaders -- Roles of Teacher Leaders -- Summary points for success -- 9 An Improved Workplace for Teachers -- School Climate -- Teacher Voice and Input -- The School as a Workplace -- Summary Points for Success -- 10 Teacher Longevity -- Stress and Resilience -- Should All Teachers Be Retained? -- Summary Points for Success -- 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 -- Step 1: Use of classroom space and organization of the room -- Step 2: Procedures and routines -- Step 3: The classroom management plan -- Step 4: Engaged teaching must be planned and in place -- Appendix 9.5-A Four-Step Instructional Plan -- Step 1: Focus -- Step 2: Presentation of new material -- Step 3: Application of material -- Step 4: Review/Conclusion/Assessment -- Appendix 9.6-Sample Quick Teacher Survey -- Appendix 10.1-Stress Management Survey -- Appendix 10.2-Time Management Activities -- Task #1 -- Task #2 -- Task #3 (May be done before tasks 1 and 2).

References -- Index -- About the Author.

This book presents a common-sense approach for making 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.

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