The Importance Of Teacher Resilience

I began constructing Table 1 in Memo 2, and now I am adding a third column to distinguish the teacher characteristics the researching is demonstrating to have positive effects on student achievement.

My new table focuses on controllable factors (One reference called these “policy amenable”), which is becoming my focus as a result of my readings and Dr. Quick’s advice to me to zoom in on leadership: “It’s important to incorporate leadership somehow. In other words, how can you get at the leadership role in successfully attracting and retaining a highly effective teaching staff? What are the leaders’ roles in districts that are outliers?”

I updated the table I created for Memo 1 to include the effects of teacher characteristics on student

Gu concluded his discussion with this call for further research:

A central task for all concerned with enhancing quality and standards in schools is, therefore, not only to have a better understanding of what influences teachers’ resilience over the course of a career, but also the means by which the resilience necessary for these to be sustained may be nurtured in the contexts in which they work and live. (Gu, 2014, p. 522)

Two questions may be derived from Gu’s call for action. First, what are the input factors that increase teachers’ resilience? Second, how does leadership within a school create and nurture factors that serve to strengthen teachers’ resilience? The answers apply not just to new hires or novice teachers but to more experienced teachers so that they, too, remain teaching in the building as high quality teachers.

Boyd offered a call for future research aligned with Gu’s which further sparked my interest in answering the research question, What school-based, controllable factors positively impact teachers’ decision to

Create a table to summarize a minimum of 15 key references and how you are classifying them to serve different purposes for your review (e.g., primary focus, background, history, theoretical frame, critical lens, etc.)? Or note Roberts’ Chapter 9 handout on p. 97, 98, or