Ernest J. Zarra III

The Teacher Exodus (eBook, PDF)

Reversing the Trend and Keeping Teachers in the Classrooms

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Teacher Exodus: Reversing the Trend and Keeping Teachers in the Classrooms is an authentic examination of many of the reasons public school teachers are leaving the profession. It also takes a hard look at why students are no longer selecting teaching as their career choice. American culture is at a tipping point and many politicians and bureaucrats are tinkering with culture through racial policies and social engineering, in efforts to empower students, rather than stem the tide of teacher attrition. Teachers are frustrated by requirements to implement social and intervention programs that fall outside their training, which limits the moral purpose they envisioned when they first entered the profession. Across the nation, teachers are feeling marginalized and impacted by policies handed down from above, which actually elevate students over teachers. Teachers sense their profession has been reduced to classroom monitoring and facilitating, which they did not sign up for! They are restricted in their classroom management and must employ a series of intervention strategies just to defend their actions of discipline. If America is to reverse the trend of teachers leaving classrooms, there must be genuinely supportive efforts to reinvigorate adults to pursue teaching and bureaucrats must release teachers to work their skills. There must be a reversal of the mindset that teachers are leaving education because education has left them. One way to do this is for bureaucrats and education administrators to once again empower teachers to be the local arbiters of education for their classrooms.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216216681
• Artikelnr.: 74830791

Autorenporträt

Ernest J. Zarra III is a lifelong educator and has authored fifteen books and numerous journal and Op-Ed articles. He has served as a district professional development leader, presented as keynote speaker for various educational organizations, and has served as assistant professor of teacher education at Lewis-Clark State College.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1- Teacher Migration from Education
Teachers Leaving the Profession
Public Education is in Trouble
American Culture is at a Tipping Point
Teacher Shortages
Considering the Constraints
Blaming Teachers
Justice for Professionals
Students with Special Designations
Theory or Reality?
The Role of Race
Reversing the Trend
Notes
Chapter 2- Fed-Up: Bureaucracy and Politics
Educational Equity and Restorative Justice
Inequity of a Different Kind
Disparity in Treatment
Legal Remedies
A Change in Perspective
Parental Power
Fear of Action
Taking a Stand
Socio-Cultural Changes Impact Schools and Students
Policy Based on Race?
Common Sense
Gaining the Attention of the Bureaucracy
Impacts of School Boards
Reversing the Trend
Notes
Chapter 3- Teachers Fighting for Change
The Marginalization of Education
Teachers Exiting the Classroom
States Making Changes to Support Teachers
Mandatory Expulsions?
Learning from Minnesota
Social Justice and Zero-Tolerance
Discipline Policy Failure
Zero-Tolerance Policies
Standing Up and Fighting Back
Reversing the Trend
Notes
Chapter 4- Classroom Management and Teacher Support
Classroom Behavior management Strategies
Is Corporal Punishment the Answer?
Welfare of the Teacher
Equity Mindedness
The Challenges are Real
Effective Classroom Management
Administrators' Efforts
Impact of Generation Z as Teachers
Reluctance is Dealing with Violence
Supportive Leadership
Reversing the Trend
Notes
Chapter 5- Intervention, Training, and Retaining
Every Teacher as an Intervention Practitioner
Intervention Programs
A Look at PBIS Training
Discipline as Intervention
Behavior Intervention Strategy: Crowd-Friending
Professional Development: Training for Teachers
Who Expect to Work with Generation Z Students
Teacher Education Program Training
Retaining Teachers
The Challenges to Improving Recruitment and Teacher Retention
Reversing the Trend
Notes
Index
About the Author