Retaining Talent: Newly Hired Teachers' Perceptions of Their Jobs and the Role of Prior Experience

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Abstract

Teacher turnover poses a challenge to educational equity, especially in high-poverty schools. As high teacher turnover necessitates hiring new teachers, understanding new teachers’ perceptions can help improve their retention. This study examines the perceptions of newly hired teachers, with and without prior teaching experience, about their jobs in one district serving a large proportion of students from low-income families. Results suggest that although all newly hired teachers have similar views about factors that motivate them to stay in the profession and the challenges of their new jobs, maintaining classroom discipline is perceived as more stressful among first-year than non-first-year newly hired teachers. By considering newly hired teachers’ prior teaching experience, this study adds to the new teacher induction support literature.

Authors

• Handrea A. Logis, National Institute for Excellence in Teaching
  Presenting Author

• Trevor Leutscher, National Institute for Excellence in Teaching
  Non-Presenting Author

• Marina Serdiouk, National Institute for Excellence in Teaching
  Non-Presenting Author

• Tanee Hudgens, National Institute for Excellence in Teaching
  Non-Presenting Author

• Joshua H. Barnett, National Institute for Excellence in Teaching
  Non-Presenting Author