Teacher attrition has long been a significant challenge within the field of education.
She is the author of Why Half of Teachers Leave the Classroom..
RINKE is associate professor of education and assistant dean for social and behavioral sciences at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where she also coordinates the Marist Center for Social Justice Research.
CAROL R.
She is the author or coeditor of several titles, including of Teacher Education across Minority-Serving Institutions: Programs, Policies, and Social Justice (Rutgers University Press).
About the Author: LYNNETTE Mawhinney is an associate professor and chair of the department of curriculum and instruction at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Complete with suggested readings and discussion questions, this book serves as an indispensable resource in understanding and building an effective and productive educational workforce for our nation\'s students.
The authors go further to provide concrete recommendations for how school administrators can Better support their practicing teachers, as well as how teacher educators might enhance preparation for the next generation of educators.
Rinke identify several themes that uncover the rarely-spoken reasons why Teachers so often willingly leave the classroom.
Drawing upon in-depth qualitative research with Former Teachers from Urban schools in multiple regions of the United States, Lynnette Mawhinney and Carol R.
There Has to be a Better Way offers an essential voice in understanding the dynamics of teacher attrition from the perspective of the Teachers themselves.
It is a commonly-cited statistic that almost fifty percent of beginning Teachers leave the field within their first five years, to the detriment of schools, students, and their own career development.
Teacher attrition has long been a significant challenge within the field of education
