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

Mary C. Clement

ago 2016 · Rowman & Littlefield

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Retaining Effective Teachers provides all administrators with step-by-step strategies for hiring and keeping the best teachers. Teachers who serve on search committees and as teacher leaders will value the book as a guide for inducting and mentoring their new colleagues.
The author has summarized the most useful research on hiring, induction, mentoring, and teacher support. The many appendices can be used immediately to ask behavior-based interview questions that determine the strongest candidates. Those who lead the induction programs have ready-made lessons and resources for improving orientation, seminars, and mentor training. The research on working with millennial teachers provides insights into ways to support them as high-performing teachers. Excellent summaries of how to observe and supervise teachers provide school leaders with collaborative ways to support and retain their faculties.

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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Mary C. Clement has published widely in the field of k-12 teacher hiring and induction. She is a professor of teacher education at Berry College, in Georgia, and earned her doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.