Addressing Teacher Shortages in Rural America: What Factors Encourage Teachers to Consider Teaching in Rural Settings?

• Published in: The Rural educator (Fort Collins, Colo.) Colo.), 2020-01, Vol.41 (3), p.12-25
• Main Authors: Oyen, Kari, Schweinle, Amy
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: 21st Century Skills; Administrative support; Beginning Teachers; Classroom management; Classroom Techniques; Critical Thinking; Decision Making; Educational Attainment; Educational Environment; Ethnicity; Faculty Development; Geographic Location; High Schools; Kinship; Leadership; Parent Background; Parent Teacher Cooperation; Peer tutoring; Preservice Teacher Education; Preservice Teachers; Professional development; Racial Differences; Recruitment; Rural Areas; Rural schools; Shortages; Skills; Specialization; Student Attitudes; Student Characteristics; Students; Supervision; Teacher Collaboration; Teacher education; Teacher Education Programs; Teacher Persistence; Teacher Shortage; Teaching; Teaching Skills; Thinking Skills; Working conditions; Workloads
• ISSN: 0273-446X; 2643-9662
• DOI: 10.35608/ruraled.v41i3.923

[...]policymakers are left to help navigate how school districts and stakeholders can find ways to recruit new teachers and manage shortages in rural areas via evidence-based strategies. Because of the little research on recruitment programs, researchers also look to factors related to new teachers' experiences when entering the profession. [...]kinship support is the support provided by family systems. According to the Husyman (2008) study, 89% of teachers who left rural schools were categorized as being transplanted.