{"id":62057,"date":"2022-03-12T05:02:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T10:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=62057"},"modified":"2022-03-12T05:02:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T10:02:27","slug":"why-most-teachers-who-say-they-plan-to-leave-the-profession-probably-wont-do-so-anytime-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/why-most-teachers-who-say-they-plan-to-leave-the-profession-probably-wont-do-so-anytime-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Why most teachers who say they plan to leave the profession probably won\u2019t do so anytime soon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Every spring, school and district leaders ask teachers about their plans to return to teaching in the fall. They need to know how many teachers to begin recruiting for the next school year.<\/p>\n

These career conversations are currently taking place under the unprecedented circumstances brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Stories from across the country show high levels of\u00a0teacher stress<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0burnout<\/a>\u00a0from repeated and long-term disruptions to school routines.<\/p>\n

School leaders are worried about whether they\u2019ll\u00a0have enough teachers to keep classrooms staffed<\/a>. In a January 2022 poll of members of the country\u2019s largest teacher union, the National Education Association,\u00a055% of educators<\/a>\u00a0said the pandemic has made them more likely to leave the teaching profession earlier than they had planned. That\u2019s nearly double the proportion of teachers who\u00a0said that in July 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Among Black and Hispanic teachers, the percentages of teachers saying they have accelerated their plans to leave teaching were even greater \u2013 62% and 59%, respectively.<\/p>\n

Despite these signals of increased turnover, the past two years have not experienced\u00a0mass departures from the teaching profession<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the past, teachers who were looking to leave didn\u2019t depart immediately, so there\u2019s some hope that the current crop of burned-out teachers won\u2019t either. Our\u00a0recent working paper<\/a>\u00a0explains why. We looked at national data from over 100,000 public school teachers from 2004 to 2012. Of the teachers who said they would leave the profession \u201cas soon as possible,\u201d 34% had left the field by the following school year, and 66% were still teaching. By contrast, of the teachers who said they planned to remain in teaching as long as possible, just 5% left the profession, and 95% kept teaching the following year.<\/p>\n

Leaving isn\u2019t immediate<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Teachers\u2019 feelings about departure can change throughout the year. The 2021-2022 school year helps to illustrate this ebb and flow in teachers\u2019 career plans.<\/p>\n

The high rates of\u00a0teacher absences<\/a>\u00a0during the surge of the omicron variant added additional responsibilities on an already strained teacher workforce.\u00a0A teacher in Memphis who eventually quit<\/a>\u00a0said she was assigned nearly 200 additional students beyond her normal teaching load when a colleague quit midyear.\u00a0An elementary school teacher in Brooklyn worried<\/a>\u00a0that too many teachers were working in schools without adequate ventilation systems or rules to reduce the spread of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n

A beginning teacher in Colorado reflected in\u00a0one report<\/a>: \u201cI also might want to just do it for one more year, just to kind of be more stable financially. If you asked me if I\u2019ll be in the classroom in two years, or three years, I say those odds are even lower.\u201d<\/p>\n

As omicron wanes, teachers\u2019 urgent feelings to leave may ease.<\/p>\n

Changing personal circumstances may also influence teachers\u2019 decision to leave. Many teachers depend on employer-provided health insurance and would want to find a job with comparable benefits.\u00a0A veteran Florida teacher who considered quitting<\/a>\u00a0explains: \u201cI need my health insurance, especially as I\u2019m recovering from COVID. And I need the paycheck.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some teachers are keeping their jobs while they figure out their next steps. For example, one\u00a0North Carolina teacher<\/a>\u00a0says she is thinking about going back to school for a new degree outside of education.<\/p>\n

Likelihood of departure<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Based on our research, we think it unlikely that most teachers who say they plan to leave teaching as soon as possible will actually leave this school year.<\/p>\n

However, if even one-third of teachers who say they\u2019re leaving the profession do so, that would be significantly more than the\u00a08% of teachers who leave in an average year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Teachers are clearly sounding the alarm about stress, burnout, dissatisfaction with school and district leadership, and other working conditions \u2013 even if they do stay in their jobs.<\/p>\n

Author Bios:<\/strong> Christopher Redding is Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Florida, Allison Gilmour is aAssistant Professor of Education at Temple University, Elizabeth Bettini is Assistant Professor of Special Education at Boston University and Tuan D. Nguyen is Assistant Professor of Education at Kansas State University<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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