Music Teacher Quit Talk

• In Event: AERA Graduate Student Research-in-Progress Session 4
  In Roundtable Session: Teacher Training, Practice, and Retention in Music Education (Table 15)

Abstract

Music education researchers have an understanding of the individual factors, that are contributing to the current deficit of music teachers and many recent articles address those elements (Shaw 2019; Taft 2023; Napoles, 2023). However, the field is not using a consistent theory or theoretical model to discuss this dilemma. The four-capital theoretical model of teacher retention (FCTM) is a framework that acknowledges the complexity of the phenomenon by stepping back from the individual factors that have been the focus of most research, and takes a broad, holistic approach (Mason and Poyatos Matas, 2015). I have begun a multiple case study to understand music teacher retention and attrition as a complex, personal phenomenon while evaluating the value and reliability of this newly developed theoretical model.

Author

• Lauren McGinley, University of Maryland