Schools Have Their Work Cut Out to Get STEM Teachers. Here’s How to Do It
Ask someone to name a few high-demand jobs of the present and future and they’ll likely identify careers in cybersecurity, green energy, health care, and artificial intelligence. It follows, then, that it would be important for students to get exposure to popular and emerging STEM fields in high school or earlier.
But schools have been struggling to recruit and retain math and science teachers for decades, let alone educators who can teach about computer science, artificial intelligence, health care, and other emerging fields.
Plus, how can schools compete for talent in high-demand STEM fields when the teaching profession has a reputation for being poorly paid and underappreciated?
“It’s a trifecta: It’s hard to find those people, when you find them, they’re more likely to leave, and in today’s economy they can trade up in terms of their salary when they leave,” said Bailey Cato Czupryk, senior vice president of transformation at TNTP, an education consulting firm that specializes in teacher training. “That’s a hard tangle of challenges for individual schools and districts to figure out how to solve.”
Read the full article at Education Week.
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