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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are already plenty of incentives. The problem is the grass is always greener, but at least there's no shortage of new teachers to fill in for the unhappy ones who leave.[/quote]

Exactly.  They get really good benefits and there are housing programs already.  And after the first few years the pay is decent to good for a ten month employee and they get tuition benefits for a masters or PhD.  [/quote]

And yet we can’t keep teachers in the classroom. Here we are commenting on a thread about how to incentivize people to stay in the profession.

TEACHERS know that the benefits aren’t worth the agony, but DCUM is here to tell teachers that their jobs are amazing. We’ll keep pretending that the teacher shortage isn’t a thing.

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Exactly, so you need to fix the problems in the school and for new teachers, mentor them and provide them with the support they need.[/quote]

Thank you for this outstanding advice. I never thought about trying to fix all of our problems! I’ll get right on that. I’m already mentoring 3 teachers on top of my full teaching load. Should I ask to mentor more?

Would it be okay if I ask for more than 30 minutes of work time a day? That would go a long way toward my goal of fixing all of our problems. I may be able to use a bit of that time to check on my three mentees. Or maybe I could grade some papers, plan a lesson…[/quote]

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