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Teachers Want to Quit Because They’re Unhappy and Unfulfilled. Here’s One Fix
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Sep 2022

Teachers Want to Quit Because They’re Unhappy and Unfulfilled. Here’s One Fix

Team teaching can create a more sustainable, gratifying profession

It’s not news anymore that schooling during the pandemic took a serious toll on teachers,with the latest figures from a RAND Corporation survey suggesting that about a third of educators have an intention to leave their jobs by the end of the 2021-2022 school year.

But even before the pandemic, 30% of college graduates who become teachers typically leave the profession within six years. That ranks as the fifth-highest turnover by occupation, behind secretaries, childcare workers, paralegals and correctional officers — and higher than policing and nursing.

Creating a more sustainable and gratifying teaching profession is critical.

To deliver on this goal, in my new book, From Reopen to ReinventI argue that the traditional one-to-many teacher-to-student model must change. The teaching profession needs to be rethought to create a web of support for children — not just single, isolated strands. And it needs to be rethought so that teachers can work more with each other, advance in their areas of expertise, and shed the tasks that bring them less joy and fulfillment.

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