[Webinar] A System Approach to Building a World-Class Teaching Profession: The Role of Induction

The Alliance for Excellent Education and the New Teacher Center Present a Webinar :  A System Approach to Building a World-Class Teaching Profession: The Role of Induction

As states gear up to implement curricular reforms aligned to rigorous college and career standards, longstanding concerns remain about whether states have an educator workforce or have the capacity to produce one with the training and skills needed to deliver high-quality content to all students. Increasing rates of teacher attrition seriously compromise the nation’s capacity to ensure that all students have access to skilled teaching. High-poverty schools experience a teacher-turnover rate of about 20 percent annually—roughly 50 percent higher than the rate in more affluent ones. Coherent policies that address the problem of inadequate and unequally distributed teaching talent are essential to reverse the broad inequities in educational opportunity and outcomes for students based on race, income, and geography.

The Alliance for Excellent Education and the New Teacher Center held a webinar on October 4 for a discussion about the role of states and districts in supporting new teachers through comprehensive induction. Richard Ingersoll,  CPRE Senior Researcher and Professor of Education and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania presented his ongoing research, " The Growing Need for Beginning Teacher Induction."

Link to webinar (Oct 4, 2011)
http://media.all4ed.org/webinar-oct-4-2011

A new Alliance policy brief released at the event--A System Approach to Building a World-Class Teaching Profession: The Role of Induction--examines the research on teacher turnover and performance and the implications for designing induction supports and professional learning as part of a coherent teacher development system.

http://www.all4ed.org/files/TeacherInduction.pdf