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This session will provide strategies for recruiting and retaining highly qualified teachers and staff in rural areas. Topics covered include growing your own talent, partnerships with higher education institutions, offering incentives, and improving hiring and retention processes.
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"Recruiting and Retaining Highly Qualified Teachers and Staff" John Hill, Executive Director National Rural Education Association
What will happen during the next 45 minutes? • Short Presentation • Questions and Discussions
Recruiting • Grow Your Own • Partnerships with Higher Ed • Offer Incentives • Hiring processes
Retention • Induction • Mentoring • Working Conditions • Salaries and Benefits
Questions? • How do rural districts in your area recruit teachers? • How have districts partnered with institutes of higher education to create a supply of rural teachers? • Please share examples of incentives used to recruit teachers to rural areas. • What hiring practices are used to ensure the hiring of high quality teachers?
Questions continued • Please share examples of induction programs used in rural districts. • How are districts using mentoring programs with teachers new to rural districts? • How can working conditions be improved to retain teachers in rural areas? • Please share samples of salaries and benefits that enhance recruiting and retention efforts?
Sources • Recruiting Quality Teachers in Mathematics, Science, and Special Education for Urban and Rural Schools. Available athttp://www.gtlcenter.org/sites/default/files/docs/NCCTQRecruitQuality.pdf • Finders Keepers: Recruiting and Retaining Teachers in Rural Schools. Available at: http://www.nationalforum.com/Electronic%20Journal%20Volumes/Osterholdm,%20Karen,%20Finders%20Keepers%20-%20Recruiting%20and%20Retaining%20Teachers%20in%20Rural%20Schools.pdf • Recruiting and Retaining High-Quality Teachers in Rural Areas: Available at: http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ795884.pdf • Search the “Rural Educator”
Sources • http://www.nationalforum.com/Electronic%20Journal%20Volumes/Osterholdm,%20Karen,%20Finders%20Keepers%20-%20Recruiting%20and%20Retaining%20Teachers%20in%20Rural%20Schools.pdf • Search the “Rural Educator”