There are many things that contribute to teacher attrition, but the revolving door is especially painful in the content areas with teacher shortages. The automotive industry is desperate for skilled employees, but the process of training this population is difficult with the shortage of teachers that Career and technical education is experiencing.
The troubles are compounded by the fact that there is currently little research to illuminate the reasons for automotive teacher attrition or what effective professional development that the practicing teachers require to increase their persistence. As for my immediate future, I will be beginning some focused research into the automotive teacher population to try to illuminate some of barriers that Illinois automotive teachers face. During this process, I will be facilitating professional development for some of these teachers during the Illinois College Automotive Instructor Association conferences (ICAIA). ICAIA is an ISBE recognized automotive association for high school and college automotive instructors. I will continue to improve this professional development website hosting this for automotive instructors. As I constructed this site, I was thinking of the many different ways to engage students in learning, but many new ideas were shared with me in relation to the strategies for implementing technology. I began to focus on Grounded Technology integration as described by Harris and Hofer (2009). I was already backwards planning my own lessons by choosing the student outcomes and pedagogical strategies first, but I had not extended those ideas to the automotive teachers that participate in the ICAIA conferences. I will be adding more aligned strategies in the near future. |
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