Pillars of Education Walking Away

We have a teacher shortage crisis in education today and more and more educators are walking away from the profession. Though exacerbated by the pandemic, there are multiple long-standing factors that are causing this movement to occur. Just a few are pay instability, feeling undervalued and reaching a point of burnout. Many teachers are only entering the profession for a short period of time.

Statistics indicate that a third of new teachers leave within three years EdSource as of January 2022. Not only are current teachers contemplating their roles as professionals but there has been a drop in the amount of students wanting to become teachers and many are even being encouraged not to pursue the profession.

Another major driver of teacher fallout is due to the content standards put in place by governance whether national or state-mandated. An example of this being the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and the lack of flexibility that comes with it; teachers are being forced to teach to the test and are stripped of any creativity to do their best work as educators.