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Moyer, Anna – Educational Researcher, 2022
Studies of early-career teachers in the 1970s-1990s find that one-quarter to one-half of teachers who left the classroom eventually returned and that returning was associated with teachers' gender and their child-rearing responsibilities. However, much has changed in the last forty years. Women are more likely to continue to participate in the…
Descriptors: Reentry Workers, Educational History, Gender Differences, Beginning Teachers
Angela Starrett; Brian Cartiff; Svetlana Dmitrieva – SC TEACHER, 2025
This report details South Carolina's public school teacher workforce for the 2023-24 academic year as part of SC TEACHER's mission to publish annual educator workforce profiles. These reports, along with SC TEACHER's full breadth of research, share information and insights with educators, policymakers, community members, and other stakeholders.…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Labor Force, Profiles, Elementary School Teachers
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Sutcher, Leib; Darling-Hammond, Linda; Carver-Thomas, Desiree – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2019
This paper reviews the sources of and potential solutions to teacher shortages in the United States. It describes the sources of current and projected increases in teacher demand relative to enrollments, shifts in pupil-teacher ratios, and attrition. It places these in relation to recent declines in teacher supply and evaluates evidence of…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Teacher Supply and Demand, Enrollment, Teacher Student Ratio
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Aitken, Ro; Harford, Judith – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2011
This study examines the induction needs of a group of teachers at different career stages working in a socially disadvantaged secondary school in the Republic of Ireland. 44 teachers participated in the study, 11 of whom were student teachers, 11 of whom were newly qualified teachers and 22 of whom were experienced teachers returning to the school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Student Teachers
Olsen, Dwayne G.; Heyse, Kathy L. – 1990
This study sought to determine if the Fuller Teacher Concerns Theory explains the development of first-year teachers with and without mentors and of reentry teachers with and without mentors. The Fuller Theory identified three stages of concern as teachers develop professionally: self-survival, teaching tasks, and impact on students. Data were…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
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Beaudin, Barbara Q. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1995
School district and teacher characteristics were identified that differentiate teachers who return to the districts they left from those who return to other public school districts in Michigan. Teachers were more likely to return if their original districts had higher beginning teacher salaries and higher per-pupil expenditures. (SLD)
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Expenditure per Student, Faculty Mobility, Public School Teachers
Bercik, Janet T.; Blair-Larsen, Susan – 1989
The purpose of this study was to provide data on teacher induction and to find ways in which a college/university may provide assistance to a school with teachers in their induction year. The study was conducted in three parochial schools that had requested a teacher induction program because of a large influx of new teachers. Descriptions are…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education
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Kirby, Sheila Nataraj; And Others – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1991
As a first step in analyzing sources of teacher supply, the flow from each source, and characteristics of teachers entering or reentering the field, data from Indiana databases of teachers from 1965-88 (n=897) and new teachers (n=741) in 1987-88 were analyzed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Databases, Elementary School Teachers, Employment Patterns
Constant, Anne P., Ed.; And Others – 1981
The following information is provided in this monograph: (1) the number of graduates completing teacher preparation programs in 1980 and a comparison of figures for the seven previous years; (2) the number of teachers needed to raise the quality of public school programs and staffing to minimum levels; (3) the number of prospective teachers…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Mobility, Futures (of Society)
Macisaac, Doug; Brookhart, Linda – 1994
The Teacher Induction Partnerships program was developed by the University of Northern Colorado and several Colorado school districts. The program represents an approach to teacher induction which serves to support beginning and reentry teachers, foster collaborative relationships between the university and school districts, and increase new…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers, College School Cooperation, Elementary School Teachers
Rollefson, Mary; And Others – 1994
This issue brief uses data from the 1987-88 and 1990-91 Schools and Staffing Survey to examine the various sources on which schools depend to meet the increasing demand for new hires to teaching. There are four sources of newly hired teachers: new college graduates, college graduates who pursued other activities before entering teaching (delayed…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Statistics