Teacher Retention

With nearly a third of teachers quitting the profession in the first five years, knowing how to grow and retain your staff is paramount. Here we look at how to keep the teachers working at your school happy in their jobs with a clear path for career progression.

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  Primary School Funding Issues put a Stranglehold on Flexibility over Teacher Pay

  Teacher Retention

  • Schools decide how much to pay their staff, writes Martin Matthews – but how meaningful can those decisions be, when they’re so restricted in how much they can spend?
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  What NQTs Need From School Leaders

  Teacher Retention

  • School leaders know how hard the process of settling into a new school can be – so make sure your NQTs make it through their first few years, writes Tim Nelson
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  School Leaders – Stop Micromanaging Staff and Start Letting them Grow

  Teacher Retention

  • Stop obsessing over the minutiae of what your staff are doing and start letting them grow, says Colin Tapscott...
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  The ATL NUT Union Offers your School More Support than Ever

  Teacher Retention

  • With the joining together of the ATL and NUT unions, schools can access more support and a louder voice than ever, says Mark Wright
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  How to Tackle Staff Retention

  Teacher Retention

  • Given all the voices in the profession telling us that recruitment and retention is an issue, what should we do about it?

• Kids or Career? Don’t Make Staff Choose

  Teacher Retention

  • How much faith do your teachers have in the support they’ll receive if they decide to have children? Emma Sheppard and Lucy Starbuck Braidley take a closer look...
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  Teacher Retention – If We Want To Keep Staff, We Need To Get Radical

  Teacher Retention

  • If we want to boost teacher recruitment, let’s address what’s keeping candidates away, says Stephen Tierney…
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  How Regional Partnerships Can Help Schools Develop Tomorrow’s Senior Leaders

  School Partnerships

  • Region-wide schools partnerships are the key to tackling the leadership recruitment challenge, says Tarun Kapur
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  Coaching Has Its Uses In Schools (But Not In Every Situation)

  CPD

  • Coaching and mentoring are useful tools for staff development, but it’s possible to overuse them, cautions Andy Vass…
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  Teacher Recruitment And Retention – Keep Your Staff, And Keep Them Happy

  Teacher Retention

  • If they want to attract and retain primary teachers, school leaders need to be more human and less corporate...