The high rate of attrition among new teachers exacerbates the shortage of effective and experienced teachers. This is a simple truth - experience in a job increases performance. In most professions, there is an active push to retain experienced employees at the cost of bringing up new people to that same level of performance. Teaching, however, is not 'most' professions. With promotions being nearly non-existent in the education world, there is no need to protect yourself against up-and-comers. In fact, it makes sense to nurture and increase the productivity of new people because it only increases the overall quality of your program. One of the greatest challenges of education, however, is simply keeping the supply of new teachers coming, and keeping those people in their jobs. It is the purpose of this paper to examine the forces that are at play which can positively affect teacher retention by looking first at the roles of principals, the use of mentor teachers, and changing the practice of hiring fresh college graduates to hiring seasoned, but non-teaching, professionals to fill classrooms. APA Style. 6 pgs, bibliography lists 7 sources.
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