How to support teachers

9 Jul 2019 · 0 min

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Short transcript from a YouTube video titled 'How to support teachers' (Clegg, July 9, 2019). Speaker A emphasizes that people become teachers out of a service-oriented motivation or sense of higher purpose rather than interest in specific subjects, and that school administrations must create environments where teachers feel supported and believe leadership 'has their backs.'

I don't think anybody goes to teaching college and dreams of becoming a teacher because they just want to teach math. There's a service component to becoming a teacher that there's an element of giving back to do something of higher purpose. It has nothing to do with the subjects they teach. But what is the underlying cause that would inspire them to become a teacher in the first place?
Administrations have to obsess with creating an environment in which teachers want to come to school, in which they feel that the administration has their backs.