Recruitment and Retention in our Schools
Recruitment and Retention in our Schools
As we enter another academic year recruitment and retention of good quality teachers sits high on every schools agenda. Frequent news on the teacher recruitment crisis identifies it as a nationwide concern.
Here at Class People we have recently placed a successful bid for the Crown Commercial Service, Supply Teacher Framework. This has been described by the education secretary as the answer to ?recruitment and retention in schools?. Whilst it might help schools with managing budgets constraints it is not an answer. We need to look deeper at the challenges of recruitment and retention within our schools.
Firstly we need to be aware of the simple ways into teaching and how we can encourage more people into the profession.
Secondly we should address the barriers, not hide from them. We are all aware that teaching is a challenging job that demands a lot of energy and hours. To combat this, schools should create or use their ?fair workload? charter to deliver and demonstrate it with success.
Finally schools need to appeal to prospective candidates with a video of their school, emphasising the fact that teaching is more than a job and that it is creating the next generation of leaders.
Over the last ten years at Class People we have witnessed the challenges that schools face with recruitment. New schools need to be continually seeking new solutions to recruitment driving recruitment as any private sector business would do.
Teachers on the ground need to make some noise about what an amazing profession it is.