Teacher shortage: how to attract our best and brightest to the profession

Dr Janet Dutton

By Dr Janet Dutton
Community contribution / February 2, 2024

While everybody wants their children to be taught by the best teachers, they don’t want their children to be teachers. Following are some of the reasons I believe are behind the shortage and some steps which I propose could return teaching to a profession our brightest students want to enter.

When I graduated as an English and History teacher in 1984 there was an oversupply of teachers. I had to ...

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