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Title: Recruiting, Developing, Mentoring and Retaining Quality Teachers


1
Recruiting, Developing, Mentoring and Retaining
Quality Teachers
  • Phoebe Gillespie, Ph.D.
  • Director, Personnel Center _at_ NASDSE
  • Vincent B. Watkins, JD.D.
  • CEO, The Watkins Group, Inc.

2
Current Recruitment Practices
  • Scholarships
  • Loan forgiveness
  • Targeted teacher preparation
  • Alternative routes to teaching
  • Redistribution of current teachers using online
    websites
  • Rehiring of retired teachers
  • Targeted teacher recruitment for specific subject
    areas and settings, using job fairs and media
    outlets and
  • Community-based recruitment campaigns in local
    settings (The Watkins Group).

3
Professional Development Practices
  • Should be
  • Targeted at local level
  • Inclusive of all subjects and focus areas
  • Job-imbedded
  • Specific to the school setting and individual
    teachers
  • Require follow up with re-teaching/coaching
  • Tailored to the needs of student population and
  • Monitored for student impact.

4
Mentoring Practices
  • Must include
  • Agreed upon guidelines with administrative
    leadership and support
  • Training for mentors and mentees
  • Incentives and supports for selected mentors
  • Common planning time and matched pairs
  • Coaching as a prominent component and
  • Data that provides evidence of results and
    support for improving and sustaining.

5
Retention
  • Best practices include
  • Hiring the best candidate for the most compatible
    position (The Watkins Group)
  • Data to document reasons for staying and best
    ways of supporting teachers at all levels
  • Building level needs assessments for teachers and
    administrators
  • On-going program of intervention that meets those
    identified needs and
  • Opportunities for professional support, growth
    and engagement in a series of enlarging roles and
    responsibilities.

6
Table Talk 20 minutes
  • Choose one of the 4 focus areas to discuss the
  • following
  • What obstacles are currently keeping your states
    from actively assisting LEAs in acting on best
    practice?
  • What obstacles are keeping your LEAs from acting
    on best practice?
  • Name three actions you can take when you return
    home to move these obstacles out the way for both
    your state and its LEAs.

7
Questions or Concerns?
  • Contact us
  • Phoebe Gillespie, Ph.D.
  • Director, Personnel Center _at_ NASDSE
  • phoebe.gillespie_at_nasdse.org
  • 703-519-3800 ext. 337
  • Vincent B. Watkins, JD.D.
  • CEO, The Watkins Group, Inc.
  • vbw_at_thewatkinsgroup.us
  • 770-719-1606
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