Addressing key issues in teacher recruitment and retention: findings from two ERP projects
In this webinar, Stephen Gorard, Rob Klassen and Rebecca Snell will discuss findings from their two very different projects designed to make a difference to teacher recruitment and retention. In conversation with Chris Larvin from Teach First, Ingrid Abrahams, Executive Headteacher and Doctoral student at Birmingham University, and Becky Taylor, IOE, they will reflect on what can be done to improve the recruitment and retention of ethnic minority teachers in England, and what motivates STEM undergraduates to choose teaching as a career.
Commentators disagree over the main factors driving the teacher recruitment and retention crisis and what the best remedies might be. Join us to hear Stephen Gorard’s reflections on The Career Pathways of Ethnic Minority Teachers and Rob Klassen and Rebecca Snell’s proposals for A Motivation-Based Approach to Strengthen Teacher Recruitment and Retention. The panel will discuss the implications of these project findings for policymakers, practitioners and researchers, before opening up to questions from the audience.
This series is jointly organised by the UCL Institute of Education Pro-Director Research and the ESRC Education Research Programme (ERP). It aims to spark new thinking across education, social research and the wider social sciences on how research, policy and practice can most productively interact.
Events will be online. Recordings and a summary of the key questions the debate raised will be made available on the ERP website afterwards.
