Diminishing Teacher Attrition: The Educator-in-Residence Professional Development School

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Abstract

This research examines how an Educator-in-Residence Professional Development School can address teacher supply and demand issues in ways that advance teacher effectiveness, while maintaining the academic integrity of the teacher education developmental processes. Highly effective teachers affect positive student learning outcomes; school and community contextual factors influence teacher effectiveness; and, teacher education programs that integrate experiential learning with learning theory promote effective teaching and student learning. The findings of this study emphasize the relevance an Educator-in-Residence program could have on the attrition issues for beginning teachers. Teacher frustration, lack of support, and classroom management problems are given as a few of the primary reasons. Teacher education programs that diminish these frustrations will curb our growing teacher attrition.

Authors

• Edward Jadallah, Coastal Carolina University

• Amanda Darden, Coastal Carolina University

• Betsey Costner, Coastal Carolina University