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As we continue to understand the factors that are the causes of the teacher shortage and possible strategies to help remedy the issue, it is best to provide more detail in certain student knowledge recession factors that also contribute to the problem as well. In the journal, “Teacher Efficacy and Attrition: Helping Students at Introductory Levels of Language Instruction Appears Critical,” written by Peter B. Swanson, understanding English components play a big part in student improvement and teacher attrition. In his journal, he mentions the current state of education now, how the understanding and comprehension of introductory English skills along with increased enrollment play a big part of the teacher shortage, and surveys from those teachers. (Swanson, 2010). Peter Swanson focuses his journal, analysis and results based on the data of two states: Georgia and Florida. He starts off my quoting authors who have added their research and results on the same topic including Ingersoll whose journal I previously summarized. He writes about the current conditions that are affecting the teaching profession such as poor working conditions, lack of on-the-job training, lack of teacher support and quality of newly hired teachers but he wants to focus on the English skills that are declining in the current generation of students that have a direct effect on the teacher shortage. Along with the students who have decreased English skills, enrollment of non-English speakers has increased with a decline of English as second language teachers to support them. In my opinion and throughout the journal, Peter Swanson agrees to some degree that if English skills are elevated and enhanced that the retention, analysis and understanding in other subjects would fall in to place. Teachers who left the profession were included in a research survey study that inquired about how effective they felt they were at different English skills being taught and mastered by their students. The results founded that reduced teacher efficacy of skills being
mastered has a direct effect on teacher effort. The less effectiveness leads to less effort which leads to more teachers leaving of the profession as the response. His possible solutions include more teacher support through district, administration, and parental areas. (Swanson, 2010). I can relate to this topic so well because even though I teach secondary science, English skills are a huge part of the subject and should be mastered in its introductory phases. I cannot get my students to have critical thinking skills and to analyze and infer about certain situations if they do not possess the skills to even read for understanding and take guesses or estimations of possible outcomes and take the lead at researching a particular question and compiling that information into a thoughtful response. This is an overwhelming situation as the subject cannot be taught if lack of comprehension in the sub subject of what I am trying to teach is not there.
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