Identify rewards tha timpact recruitment and retention of quality teachers....?

Question

Identify internal and/or external rewards that impact recruitment and retention of quality teachers. How do such rewards influence recruitment or retention?

How might these rewards shift as new accountability-centered teacher reforms are proposed (such as merit pay and competency testing)?

Answer 1

tuition reimbursement/loan forgiveness programs

per session pay for extra curricular involvement

lap top/technology incentive programs

community housing incentives

merit pay is going to kill everything

Answer 2

If you get enough worthy responses to this -publish them!

In my view the public educational system in America has suffered an identity crisis at least since the early 1900s and because of that, it's dysfunctional at best, and most likely barely breathing on life-support.

Because the federal government as well as educational leaders at all levels are ambivalent on whether public eduation is a social endeavor or an economic entity, the middle ground occupied by education is a morass of ineffective and inefficient tokenism.

And please know that I'm speaking about the systems in place and the leadership that condones such systems ... I am not speaking about the teachers or students.  It's a wonder they still exist.

It seems reasonable that, on average, teachers that enter the American public school system have a measure of internal motivation that is quite different from the general population.  In fact, it can be said -and possible proven empirically- that teachers have a higher level of internal motivation than most.

Why? Consider what they are faced with -daily.

With many schools being little more than a catch-all place for society's ills, too many teachers are required to be anything but teachers ... when asked, they use words like, I'm asked to be a surrogate parent, a confident, a counselor, a doctor, a therapist, a police person, a first-responder, a suicide-prevention intervention, a stop-gap for student retention ... and, to make matters even worse, because of the short-sightedness of NCLB, the few moments I actually get to teach, I'm compelled to "teach to the test."  And clearly, that's not teaching!

Besides programs like Teach for America and others like that, the public school system still views recruitment as placing an ad in a newspaper.  And where schools actually use the electronic medium to solicit for open positions, the applicant must endure what can only be considered passage through one of the circles of h**l from Dante's Divine Comedy.

If the educational system truly operated as a business, then the HR function of every school district would be better-staffed and more robust in structuring and maintaining a model for recruitment. selection, and retention.  For over the past 100 years that model has been, at best ad hoc, on other days a loosely congealed but formidable process of "who do you know that's looking for a job?"

As such, it seems reasonable to conclude that the external motivators have essentially been non-existent.

The new accountability system is a shell game that soon (next election) will become yet another trendy failure of a pancea proposed and legislated by non-teachers and those will little to zero expertise in learning theories, brain-based research, or basic human behavior.  The accountability system will be tossed -like yesterday's waste- to the enormous heap of failures that at one time or another was hyped to be the salvation for American public education.

Regardless of what fad or trend, or ill-begotten federal act appears next on the educational landscape, it seems fair to assume that teachers -like most of the 6.6 billion people inhabiting this planet simply want dignity and respect, safe working conditions, a career parh that articulates opportunity for growth and development, and a salary that provides a wage in sync with protecting this nation's most prized resource -our children.

Answer 3

I see that you speak "Educationeze".  I do not do so well, but my translation into normal English would be:

"Suggest ways to help people want to be in the teaching profession.  What rewards can be offered to those doing this difficult job?  Are there better incentives these days since the teacher is now expected to do more to show their success rate in the classroom."

Have i got it correctly?  

I have no ideas except to say "SPEAK ENGLISH" if you please.  That would be a great incentive these days.