How Are New Teachers

Placed?
Who Wins and Who Loses?
Angel Doughty and Roland Huyen

1.Describe the Problem

How are new and returning teachers placed in an assignment?
Is a bottom of the totem pole mentality as pervasive at it seems?
Lowest seniority teachers get stuck with the toughest classrooms.
Many tactics to lure teachers into the toughest assignments
Nationally, teacher turnover is 17%, over 20% in Urban districts
What is behind the teacher turnover? Who Wins and Who Loses?

2. Describe the Results that you want

Everyone agrees that test scores are
important
Everyone agrees that a sense of community
in a school is important
Teachers agree that the students are
important
Where are the tools for success?

3. Gather Information
The National Commission on Teaching
reports that of all new teachers are leaving
the profession within 3 years!
That number increases to 46% within 5 years
What is being done to support new teachers?

4. Think Of Solutions

Employ a bottom-up assignment plan

Newest teachers should get classes that support learning
Single-prep vs multiple-prep
Classroom support from Administrators
Mentor programs
Allow the strongest teachers to take the toughest
assignments

5. Choose The Best Solution

Employ a bottom-up assignment plan

Newest teachers classes that support growth
Single-prep vs multiple-prep
Classroom support from Administrators
Mentor programs
Allow the strongest teachers to take the toughest assignments

6. Implement the Solution

Factors to consider
Student needs
Teacher Contracts
Licensure
School Culture

7.Evaluate, Revise, Re-Enter

Using Data
Student Achievement
Discipline referrals
Teacher attendance and retention rates
Modify address new challenges
Reevaluate and renter the continuum

References
How Teacher Turnover Harms Student Achievement
http://www.nber.org/people/james_wyckoff
NBER Working Paper No. 17176
Issued in June 2011
NBER Program(s): ED

Do Low- Performing Student Get Place with Novice teachers?

www.gse.harvard.edu/cepr-resources/files/news-events/sdp-spi-placement-memo.pdf
Center for Education Policy Research
Harvard University
SDP Human Capital Diagnostics
Strategic Data Project 2012
Strategic Involuntary Teacher transfers and Teacher Performance: Examining and Equity and Efficiency
Jason Grissom, Susanna Loeb, Nathaniel Nakashima (2013) J. Pol. Anal. Manage. doi 10.1002/pam.21732
Who Is Teaching our Children?
Richard Ingersoll, Linda Merrill Educational Leadership, May 2010 pp. 14-20