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Publication Date: 2023-Oct-19
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The Relationship between Teacher Intentions, Turnover Behavior, and School Conditions
Erica Harbatkin; Tuan D. Nguyen
Brookings Institution
The COVID-19 pandemic sounded alarms about the precarity of the teacher workforce as teachers reported high levels of burnout, stress, job dissatisfaction, and intent to leave teaching. Research using statewide administrative data has shown teacher turnover climbed in 2021 and 2022 in several states, raising concerns that the worst could be yet to come. Teacher intentions--and, to a lesser extent, eventual turnover--are largely driven by school organizational conditions and organizational commitment. Though state data, combined with national data on teacher shortages, paint a troubling picture about the future of the teacher workforce, the extent of the pandemic's effects on turnover at the school level and attrition from teaching altogether remains unknown. A related open question is how district and school leaders wanting to retain the teachers in the building can do so--especially in schools and districts with the greatest staffing needs.
Descriptors: Intention, Teacher Persistence, Labor Turnover, Teaching Conditions, Teacher Burnout, Job Satisfaction, Stress Variables, COVID-19, Pandemics, Teacher Behavior, STEM Education
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Language: English
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