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Teacher Recruitment, Retention and Career Progression
A guide for school leaders
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160 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
Key professional learning from the Chartered College of Teaching. Supports school leaders to build, cherish and develop diverse and inclusive staff teams.
School leaders are grappling with the challenges of recruiting and retaining teachers every day.
At a national level, this is about many factors including pay, workload and accountability. Within this context, how do school leaders face this challenge today, in their school, with their teaching staff?
School leaders are working to fill vacancies, support those new to the profession and enable staff members to progress – all while grappling with competing priorities and limited budgets. This book supports leaders with recruitment and retention in practice. Specifically, it helps leaders to address the barriers that people with protected characteristics might face in becoming teachers and progressing into leadership positions. The strategies offered in this book support improved teacher recruitment, job satisfaction and retention.
School leaders are grappling with the challenges of recruiting and retaining teachers every day.
At a national level, this is about many factors including pay, workload and accountability. Within this context, how do school leaders face this challenge today, in their school, with their teaching staff?
School leaders are working to fill vacancies, support those new to the profession and enable staff members to progress – all while grappling with competing priorities and limited budgets. This book supports leaders with recruitment and retention in practice. Specifically, it helps leaders to address the barriers that people with protected characteristics might face in becoming teachers and progressing into leadership positions. The strategies offered in this book support improved teacher recruitment, job satisfaction and retention.
Part 1: Understanding the challenges of teacher recruitment and retention
Nansi Ellis and Gareth Conyard
1. Education policy and professional development: Understanding key legislative shifts and policy initiatives
Dr Victoria Cook and Dr Lisa-Maria Müller
2. Teacher professionalism: The importance of professional identity and autonomy for retention and career progression
Polly Butterfield-Tracey
3. The challenges schools face in recruiting teachers: Organisational cultures and the complexity of the ITT market
Beng Huat See, Stephen Gorard, and Fujia Yang
4. Understanding the underrepresentation of minority ethnic teachers
Part 2: Inclusive leadership: Strategies for supporting diverse staff teams
Angela Browne and Sufian Sadiq
5. Inclusive leadership: Addressing systemic barriers to support teachers from minority ethnic backgrounds
Claire O’Neill
6. Recruiting and supporting neurodivergent teachers by developing an inclusive work environment
Professor Catherine Lee
7. Recruiting and retaining LGBTQ+ teachers through inclusive leadership
Part 3: Building supportive work environments: Fostering career progression for all
Professor Tanya Ovenden-Hope
8: Supporting teacher retention and career progression: Fostering Early Career Teacher self-efficacy through reflective practice and professional development
Lucy Rose and Lindsay Patience
9. Flexible working practices to support recruitment, retention and career development
Yamina Bibi
10: Addressing workload and supporting teacher wellbeing