Full Description
This book is designed to help administrators, teachers and board of education members who will participate in the hiring of more than two million new teachers between now and 2015. The gap between supply of and demand for qualified professional staff can make recruiting and retaining all types of candidates extremely competitive. This book is designed to help you with every aspect of the recruitment and retention process. Given the importance of every decision made to hire or permanently retain an educator, it is beneficial to build on a strong foundation of proven practices which can be used to help one teacher or dozens of teachers complete their 3-year process from recruitment to tenure or job stability.This book offers a valuable and practical framework for thinking about how to teach successfully - year after year, class after class, student after student. It contains many insights and lessons from teachers who have found their own professional experiences genuinely rewarding and who did remain in the profession for a lifetime.
Contents
List of Tables and FiguresForeword - Harvey J. StedmanAcknowledgementsAbout the AuthorsIntroduction: Induction - From Recruitment to RetentionChoosing and Using Successful PracticesSummary1. Building Block 1: Preparing to Recruit and RetainChapter SummaryBluePrint for Building Block 12. Building Block 2: Staffing Your School or District - Necessary ToolsPutting It TogetherGetting StartedHow to RecruitHow to InterviewChapter SummaryBluePrint for Building Block 23. Building Block 3: Orienting New Members of Your Professional Staff - Year OnePreorientation: Connecting Before the School Year Appointment BeginsConducting Professional DevelopmentMentoring and CollaboratingSupervising, Observing, and EvaluatingPutting It Together for the Induction Task ForceChapter SummaryBluePrint for Building Block 34. Building Block 4: Creating Lasting Connections for Your Probationary Professional Staff - Years Two and ThreeOngoing Professional Development Best Practice: Data MiningOngoing Supervision, Observation, and Evaluation Best Practices: Formal Observation and Informal SupervisionOngoing Supervision, Observation, and Evaluation Best Practice: The Process of Granting Tenure/PermanenceChapter SummaryBluePrint for Building Block 45. Building Block 5: Retaining Your High-Quality Professional Staff - Best PracticesRetaining Best Practice: Observation and Evaluation for Tenured StaffRetaining Best Practices: Renewing and ReorientingRetaining Best Practice: Getting to the "Hearth" of ItChapter SummaryBluePrint for Building Block 5EndnoteResourcesA. BluePrint for Building Blocks 1-5B. Leading for Learning & Safety: A Leadership Development InstituteC. Affirm, Normalize, and RefocusD. Particulars of the Letter of Intent/BinderE. Letter of AppointmentF. Advertisement for Staffing PositionsG. Tenure LetterH. Examplar for How to Use an Evaluation Instrument (see Resource) in the Preobservation, Observation, and PostobservationI. Evaluation InstrumentJ. Organizational Chart of the Induction Task ForceBibliographyIndex
