Teacher recruitment and retention - international case studies

Is teacher attrition an inevitable fact of life? Annual attrition rates for Early Career Science Teachers in England are running at an eye watering 15% per annum despite major government initiatives. But this does not have to be case. Taking case studies from across the world delegates will be invited to see if there are lessons to be learned from further afield. My work over many years in physics teacher recruitment and retention has raised questions of whether in England we have made some flawed assumptions about what works. Successive governments have been locked into increasingly desperate recruitment initiatives as the teacher attrition rates are so high, down in part to our inspection regime. Yet this is not the case in equally or more successful jurisdictions abroad. Outcomes: Participants will be encouraged to discuss with colleagues in their organisations and partner organisations about alternatives to current teacher preparation and retention practices, e.g. the current role of Ofsted, league tables etc.