[DOWNLOAD] "Collaborative Recruitment of Diverse Teachers for the Long Haul--Teams: Teacher Education for the Advancement of a Multicultural Society (Innovative Practices)" by Multicultural Education ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Collaborative Recruitment of Diverse Teachers for the Long Haul--Teams: Teacher Education for the Advancement of a Multicultural Society (Innovative Practices)
- Author : Multicultural Education
- Release Date : January 22, 2006
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 223 KB
Description
The recruitment of qualified teachers is an immense and demanding job, particularly for high-poverty urban schools. Urban schools often turn to the common practice of recruiting teachers who are underqualified, most of them with no teaching experience and limited training. Because of their lack of preparation, coupled with the difficult working conditions they face and the inadequate support within their schools, these beginning teachers are likely to leave the profession soon after they enter. The attrition data is challenging: 33% of beginning teachers leave within the first three years of teaching, and almost 50% leave within five years. This attrition in turn produces yet more recruitment, again of a new group of under-prepared teachers, creating a "revolving door" phenomenon that has come to characterize the teaching profession. Thus, students in high-poverty schools often see new, under-prepared teachers year after year, despite the fact that these very students are in most need of quality, experienced teachers. These students are denied the opportunity to learn from well-prepared, committed teachers who are in the profession for the long haul. The TEAMS (Teacher Education for the Advancement of a Multicultural Society) Teaching Fellowship Program is a collaborative model of positive recruitment that prepares diverse teachers, paraprofessionals, and counselors for service in urban, public school with the goal of increasing the academic success of all students. The TEAMS Program has evolved a unique model that provides a winning situation for all who are involved by using creative partnering to recruit, prepare, and support a confident, critical, and diverse teaching force prepared to tackle the challenges of inner-city teaching for the long haul.