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PIP for Action Research: Professional Development as a Tool for New Teacher Retention

August 9, 2010

PROFESSIONAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT

PLAN OF ACTION

ACTION RESEARCH: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AS A TOOL FOR NEW TEACHER RETENTION

 District Vision:  To ensure that new teachers remain in the district.  Many new teachers leave the profession for various reasons. 

Goal:  To provide new teachers with the training, support, and access to information needed to be successful from the very first day on campus.  To provide mentors for new teachers. To provide online technological support for new teachers.  To provide new teacher, and veteran teachers, access to professional development online.

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Challenges to Action Research: Professional Development as a Tool for New Teacher Retention

August 5, 2010
"So many things are possible as long as you don't know they're impossible." ~ Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth (1970)  The main challenges I foreseen with my action research include, but, of course, is not limited to:
  • teacher apathy
  • time constraints
  • lack of commitment from mentors (mainly due to the above, time constraints).
To overcome these challenges will also be a challenge. The one thing we do not want to do with the research is add undue burden on the mentor or th...

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Sharing My Action Research: Professional Development as a Tool for New Teacher Retention

August 1, 2010

Professional Development as a Tool for New Teacher Retention

Many new teachers leave the classroom disillusioned due to a lack of support and training.  My wondering is, "How could Professional Development be designed to benefit new teachers and help in new teacher retention?"  New teachers leave campuses and districts due to the lack of support from principals and veteran teachers. New teachers need support of administrators. They need mentors to help them to be successful from their first ...


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Components of Action Research: Professional Development as a Tool for New Teacher Retention

July 29, 2010
My action research wondering is "How can professional development be improved to ensure success for new teachers?" Many new teachers leave campuses and districts due to the lack of support they receive from principals and veteran teachers. New teachers need support of administrators and mentors to help them to be successful from their first day on campus.

Description of the Context or Setting Study:

My action research will be district wide. I am working with our Technology Director to find ...

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Purpose and Significance of Action Research: Professional Development as a Tool for New Teacher Retention

July 21, 2010
"In light of teacher shortages, coupled with grim statistics on teacher retention that reveal that "after just three years, it is estimated that almost a third of new entrants to teaching have left the field, and after five years almost half are gone" (National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, 2003, p. 19), a principal's support of new teachers in his/her building becomes more important than ever (Dana, 2009, p. 40)." The principal has the awesome responsibility of facilitating th...
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Improving Professional Development for New Teachers Retention

July 17, 2010
Action research: How does professional development help teacher retention.  Thesis: Many new teachers leave the classroom disillusioned due to a lack of support and training.  

My original comment was as follows:
 "If I were an administrator, one area I feel would benefit from an action research investigation is Professional Development for new teachers. This is a problem of critical importance because new teachers leave campuses and districts due to the lack of support they receive from princi...
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Action Research: Professional Development as a Tool for New Teacher Retention

July 15, 2010
Action research, according to Dana, is intended to bring about change of some kind (Dana, 2009). Action research could be used to find "best practices" for a particular school or district.  Action research is not one size fits all: it is unique to the school or district completing the research. Research should involve input from all stakeholders in the school district.  This includes principals, new and veteran teachers, parents, students, community, and district level administrators. I love ...
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Reflections from EDLD 5368 | Instructional Design

May 16, 2010
  • What benefits do you see in educators knowing how to design and implement online learning?

            As I continue to work with Schoology, I now see great benefits in educators knowing how to design and implement online learning.  I just completed the Advanced Technical Credit Part I Online Training Session which is required to teach statewide articulated courses.  One thing I learned in the training is "Advances in technology have changed the workplace in a dramatic way. Stud...


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