Think about the teachers you had as a kid. How many of them had been teaching for more than 10 years, 20 years, even 30 years? Quite a few probably, because that’s how the profession used to work. But in the last 10 years, that’s changed, with 40- to 50-percent of new teachers not making it past their fifth year.
So what is it like to be a new teacher? What happens in classrooms that cause half of new teachers to leave and what makes the other half stay?
StateImpact Indiana’s Claire McInerny launches a new series today that aims to answer those questions.