Teacher Recruitment Generation

Education is the basis of growth. It is as true for people as it is for the countries, states, cities and school districts who make education a necessity of development (Uko-Aviomo). Every year, new graduating students leave the comfort of a school system and get careers that define their countries economy. The education and skill of these students was built by both the school system and teachers who taught them. However, what happens when these teachers or school systems fail to deliver that critical education to their students? What if the best teachers were all chosen to migrate to a more financially country or change their subject focus that they have spent years mastering? Teacher recruitment and turnover/attrition can slow the development of a nation and deprive students of a chance for quality education.

Imported Teachers are those directly recruited and appointed from overseas to a teaching position in another country (Sharplin). Schools systems all over the world have at least one school that is considered “hard-to-staff”. Schools that would be considered hard-to-staff normally consist of poor test scores, non-education promoting surroundings, or areas of very high crime rates with little to no focus on education. When these schools lose their teachers and their applicants do not meet the experience needs that are required to work in poor environments, they turn to teacher recruitment companies. According to the American Federation of teachers: “Migrant teachers are being placed mainly in hard-to-staff public schools for the hard-to-discipline subjects of math, science and special education” (American Federation of Teachers). A Case study was conducted in Baltimore by the American Federation of Teachers trying to shed l...

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...ies have shown that teachers tend to stay in schools that they are more successful in as teachers, despite the school’s poor performance as a whole (Anonymous). The only way to stop teacher attrition would be to stop teachers from wanting to leave their current positions in their school district.

Education plays too great a role in the development of a country’s future to be left unchecked for recruiting companies or teacher attrition. Education makes up the base for which the future business leaders of the world can grow. Both recruitment and attrition hurt education systems around the globe and make it more difficult for countries to develop into the nations that they want to become. Better focus on improving these aspects of education around the world can streamline growth on an international level and give hard-working students the opportunities they deserve.