- Principals need to present the attitude, 'I want you to be here.
You are important.'
- Principals need to be supportive of teacher decisions.
- Provide opportunites for special and general educators to
collaboroate through teams and cooperative teaching opportunities.
- Ensure that there are mentoring programs in place throughout an
educator's professional development.
- Reward teachers with appropriate mechanisms.
- Ensure that all education professionals are being treated equitably.
- Be an advocate in your system to ensure that all education
professionals have access to materials.
- Ensure that your paraprofessionals and instructional aides are
qualified and are consistently evaluated.
- Provide time for teachers to plan.
- Provide teachers with opportunities for professional development,
opportunities to work on school-wide committees.
- Evaluate your staff consistently to ensure that the job demands of
a particular position are consistent with the knowledge, interests, and
skills, of the employee in the position.
- Ensure that the work environment is pleasant by providing personnel
with time-out space such as a teacher's lounge and ample parking.
- Provide educators with resources, including libraries and other
informational materials.
- Provide staff with information and resources regarding the how-to's
of school administrative practices.
- Establish relationships with local university-based personnel preparation programs in your area.
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"I set aside time each week for teachers to 'walk in' to my office and share
concerns, issues, or just to touch base."
"With the change in classroom population, collaborative teaching is becoming
increasingly necessary."
"I ensure that all of our teachers have planning time and do not
expect that because special education teachers at times have smaller
class sizes, that their planning time should be diminished."
"I turned a small storage area into our professional resource library...I really think
that our staff is taking ownership for this project and work hard to maintain
the reference material available."
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