Stopping the brain drain of skilled veteran teachers
Subtitle: retaining and valuing their hard-won experience
By: William L. Fibkins
Publisher: R&L Education; Rowman & Littlefield Education
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9781610483360; 9781610483377; 9781610483384
Subjects: EDUCATION / Professional Development; Teacher effectiveness; Retirement; Prevention; Vocational guidance; Teacher turnover; Employee retention; Teachers; Older people; Teaching; Employment; School personnel management; EDUCATION / Counseling / Vocational Guidance
Description: "Veteran educators are being encouraged to take early retirement in order to create jobs for less-experienced, lower-paid, novices. Veteran educators are not alone. Early retirement promotions have become the norm for aging workers in America. There is a brain-drain of skilled workers at the national, state, and local level. The early retirement of our most talented veteran educators is leaving our schools without the necessary leadership, hard-earned experience, skills, and wisdom to meet the complex challenges our country faces in our complex world. Indeed there are long-term consequences of losing skilled educators while they are in the prime of their professional lives. This book challenges the : good news only" theory of early retirement promotions which suggest that veteran educators are no longer needed as they age and their retirement is the only way schools can survive financially in these tough times. It's a " no problem here" approach that says everyone gets a reward. The novice educators get a job and the vets get some cash. No problem that is until the veteran educators are out the door and the school staff, students, and parents are left without their steady guiding hand. This book focuses on why it is imperative that we offer our most gifted veteran educators career alternatives that will encourage and reward them to remain on board , continuing to provide leadership and be role models for novice and mid-career staff, students, parents, and community members"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1: The Loss of Skilled Veteran Teachers: Is It a Problem of Our Outdated Policy and Practice?; title: Chapter 2: The Three-for-One Epidemic Is Causing the Brain Drain of Our Best Veteran Teachers; title: Chapter 3: Veteran Teachers Are Joining the Ranks of Skilled Workers Being Bought Out in Every Sector of the Economy; title: Chapter 4: Older Workers Are Needed in the Workforce: Public Policy and Private Practice Encourages Them to Retire; title: Chapter 5: Resistance to Veteran Teachers Choosing the "Freedom to Work" Paradigm; title: Chapter 6: Workforce Strategies Needed to Mentor Failing Novice, Mid-Career and Veteran Teachers; title: Bibliography; title: About the Author.