This book is for you if you are: challenged by the number of teacher vacancies at the start of your school year, finding that your most promising teachers are resigning before they complete their first few years on the job, or no longer willing to accept that your veteran teachers are just marking time until their retirement. Best-selling author India Podsen shows you how to uncover and analyze retention risks at your school; implement induction programs to help novices master the realities of full-time teaching; engage your experienced teachers in the retention process; and apply the Professional Educator Career Framework, consisting of Four Career Stages: teacher inductee, teacher specialist, teacher leader, and teacher steward. This book provides school leaders with practical suggestions and easy-to-use tools such as checklists and action plans, sample meeting programs and agendas, evaluation templates, benchmarks and standards, and all designed to help you deal successfully with teacher shortages and related problems.

Podsen, India

Part 1 Sizing Up the Situation; Chapter 1 Teacher Shortages: A Profession at Risk; Chapter 2 Career Staging: A Professional Framework; Chapter 3 Teacher Retention Profile; Part 2 Professional Career Framework; Chapter 4 Career Induction; Chapter 5 Reducing the Risk Factors; Chapter 6 Mentoring: Doing the Right Thing; Chapter 7 Implications for Continuous Professional Learning; Chapter 8 Fostering and Valuing Expertise; Chapter 9 Teachers Leading Teachers; Chapter 10 Professional Continuity and Commitment;