I was researching for my paper that is going to be due in English at the end, which has to be six pages long. There is a website on every desktop of every computer in the school called EBSCO. It provides so many articles and such that will help support basically any thesis possible. I decided to start researching on my thesis about education and I received great results from this website.
All I had to do was type in "retaining teachers" in the search box and many pages of results came up. So far I have only printed out two articles, but I am planning on getting at lease ten; therefore, I have enough to support my thesis and develop a good research paper.
One of the articles I found was Hampton's priority: Stronger schools: The community gathers to name priorities for making Hampton schools "great." It talked about how they are trying to improve Hampton schools by having annual workshops to talk of the problems. At their recent meeting, they said that teachers should teach students more life and social skills and maybe improve the student-teacher ratio by having smaller classes; maybe it is harder to teach in a bigger class because the teachers cannot get to know each student individually. Also, the teachers need to better prepare the students for transition into higher education or the work force. All of these are a few of the problems they spoke about, and are planning to work on during the upcoming years.
The other article I found was BRIEF: State gets 'D+' for retaining, identifying good teachers. This article was about how Pennsylvania schools need to do a better job of retaining quality teachers for their school district. In this state, they use classroom observations to "grade" the teachers and see how their students are learning. They think that the problem of retaining quality teachers are the pension plans, compensation pay, and performance pay. Pennsylvania schools need to crack down and see what is going on because right now they're sacrificing the student's education.
Did the article in the school in PA talk about simply observing teachers teaching students as a good way to increase teacher retention? Ugggh.
ReplyDeleteHow do we measure what students are learning? Is more testing the answer? Something tells me no.
I can't wait to see the good stuff that you'll find.