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Creating Effective Teacher Growth Programs

Creating Effective Teacher Growth Programs. Individualizing Professional Improvement. How experienced are our teachers?. 0-3 years 18.2% 4-9 years 30.5% 10-19 years 33.1% 20+ years 18.2%. Who Teaches?. Full-time: 89% Went to Catholic School: 77% Female: 80% Aged 45-60: 40%

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Creating Effective Teacher Growth Programs

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  1. Creating Effective Teacher Growth Programs Individualizing Professional Improvement

  2. How experienced are our teachers? 0-3 years 18.2% 4-9 years 30.5% 10-19 years 33.1% 20+ years 18.2%

  3. Who Teaches? Full-time: 89% Went to Catholic School: 77% Female: 80% Aged 45-60: 40% Religious: 7% Lay: 93% White: 92% Teach elem. School: 71% Catholic: 96% BA only: 67% MA and above: 30% Married: 70%

  4. Why they leave: Family/Personal: public 34.7%; private 47.3% Retired/Sabbatical: public 27.9%; private 10.1% Salary/benefits: public 4.5%; private 9.2% Other career: public 3.4%; private 12.5% RIF-ing: public 5.8%; private 7% Dissatisfied w/teaching: public 8.9%; private 6.7%

  5. Life Factors • Career at a “dead end” • Meaning of life • Home and family • Physical, psychological health • Caregiving

  6. Manifestations of burnout • Fatigue • Anger and anxiety • Depression, irritability • Lack of goals • Changes in relationships • Changes in appearance

  7. Descriptors Goal: control High stress Gaining acceptance Desirous of respect Confused re: roles Ambivalent commitment Growth Needs Help w/tech skills Directive supervision Clear expectations Sensitivity re: acceptance Exploration of personal aims Meaning of Catholic ID New Teachers

  8. Understanding young workers • Turn-ons: • Recognition and praise • Time spent with supervisor • Relating learning to action • Opportunity to learn new things • Fun • Time to explore themselves

  9. Understanding young workers • Turn-offs: • Hearing about the past-especially yours • Inflexibility about time • Workaholism • Being watched/scrutinized • Feeling pressure to be traditional • Disparaging comments about youth • Feeling disrespected

  10. What are your 20-something teachers telling you?

  11. Descriptors Building security New awareness Preoccupied w/cognitive Want to prepare students Deepened commitment Growth needs Understand theory Opportunity to innovate Collaborative supervision Professional development Support services The Middle Years

  12. What are your “middle years” teachers telling you?

  13. Descriptors Optimum career performance Mixed feelings Smooth functioning classroom Pride in the past Professional boredom Reliance on the “tried and true” Growth needs Less structured development Nondirective supervision Self-improvement Mentoring duties Call on expertise The veterans

  14. What are your veterans telling you?

  15. How do adults learn? • Contextually • New knowledge from old • Fun/positive/rewarding/non-threatening • Allow for practice • Immediate application

  16. Critical Attributes of Effective Teacher Development • Collegiality and cooperation • Experimentation and risk-taking • Incorporation of available knowledge bases • Time to work and assimilate • Leadership and sustained support • Appropriate incentives and awards • Integration of school goals • Formal placement of the program in the organizational structure

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