Induction
Connecting Teacher Recruitment to Retention

Foreword by Harvey J. Stedman

Other Titles in:
Continuing Professional Development | Staff Supervision/Evaluation/Retention | Teacher Induction

May 2003 | 144 pages | Corwin

This book is designed to help administrators, teachers and board of education members who will participate in the hiring of more than two million new teachers between now and 2015. The gap between supply of and demand for qualified professional staff can make recruiting and retaining all types of candidates extremely competitive. This book is designed to help you with every aspect of the recruitment and retention process. Given the importance of every decision made to hire or permanently retain an educator, it is beneficial to build on a strong foundation of proven practices which can be used to help one teacher or dozens of teachers complete their 3-year process from recruitment to tenure or job stability.

This book offers a valuable and practical framework for thinking about how to teach successfully - year after year, class after class, student after student. It contains many insights and lessons from teachers who have found their own professional experiences genuinely rewarding and who did remain in the profession for a lifetime.

List of Tables and Figures

Harvey J. Stedman

Foreword

Acknowledgements

About the Authors

Introduction: Induction - From Recruitment to Retention

Choosing and Using Successful Practices

Summary

1. Building Block 1: Preparing to Recruit and Retain

Chapter Summary

BluePrint for Building Block 1

2. Building Block 2: Staffing Your School or District - Necessary Tools

Putting It Together

Getting Started

How to Recruit

How to Interview

Chapter Summary

BluePrint for Building Block 2

3. Building Block 3: Orienting New Members of Your Professional Staff - Year One

Preorientation: Connecting Before the School Year Appointment Begins

Conducting Professional Development

Mentoring and Collaborating

Supervising, Observing, and Evaluating

Putting It Together for the Induction Task Force

Chapter Summary

BluePrint for Building Block 3

4. Building Block 4: Creating Lasting Connections for Your Probationary Professional Staff - Years Two and Three

Ongoing Professional Development Best Practice: Data Mining

Ongoing Supervision, Observation, and Evaluation Best Practices: Formal Observation and Informal Supervision

Ongoing Supervision, Observation, and Evaluation Best Practice: The Process of Granting Tenure/Permanence

Chapter Summary

BluePrint for Building Block 4

5. Building Block 5: Retaining Your High-Quality Professional Staff - Best Practices

Retaining Best Practice: Observation and Evaluation for Tenured Staff

Retaining Best Practices: Renewing and Reorienting

Retaining Best Practice: Getting to the "Hearth" of It

Chapter Summary

BluePrint for Building Block 5

Endnote

Resources

A. BluePrint for Building Blocks 1-5

B. Leading for Learning & Safety: A Leadership Development Institute

C. Affirm, Normalize, and Refocus

D. Particulars of the Letter of Intent/Binder

E. Letter of Appointment

F. Advertisement for Staffing Positions

G. Tenure Letter

H. Examplar for How to Use an Evaluation Instrument (see Resource) in the Preobservation, Observation, and Postobservation

I. Evaluation Instrument

J. Organizational Chart of the Induction Task Force

Bibliography

Index

"This book offers a valuable and practical framework for thinking about how to teach successfully—year after year, class after class, student after student. It contains many insights and lessons from teachers who have found their own professional experiences genuinely rewarding and who remained in the profession for a lifetime."

From the Foreword by Harvey J. Stedman, Vice-Chancellor

New York University

"Induction is a reliable, indispensable resource for primary, secondary, and university level educational institution recruiters every where."

Midwest Book Review, May 2003