Glossary

Alternative Certification
  • discusses alternative certification programs for teacher education.

Description

  • primarily describes a program intended to increase recruitment and/or retention of teachers.

Empirical

  • primarily based on data, whether qualitative or quantitative.

High Need Students or Schools

  • discusses students or schools that are identified as high need (e.g., high risk, underserved, low performing, disadvantaged, hard to staff).

Historical Review

  • examines data, policy, or theory and how it changed over a period of years.

Incentive Program

  • discusses financial compensation programs (often scholarship or loan forgiveness) specifically implemented to increase recruitment or retention.

Literature Review

  • primarily reviews existing literature.

Low SES Students or Schools

  • includes attention to low SES students, or to schools where many students are low SES.

Mentoring/Induction

  • discusses mentoring or induction programs for new teachers.

Policy and Advice

  • includes a focus on current policy or advice for improving policy.

Recruitment - District

  • looks at recruitment (as defined by the authors of the article) of teachers to teaching, focused on the effects of schools and districts on that process.

Recruitment - Program

  • looks at recruitment (as defined by the authors of the article) of teachers to teaching, focused on the effects of teacher education programs on that process.

Retention - District

  • looks at the retention (as defined by the authors of the article) of teachers in teaching, focused on the effects of schools and districts on that process.

Retention - Program

  • looks at the retention (as defined by the authors of the article) of teachers in teaching, focused on the effects of teacher education programs on that process.

Rural

  • discusses rural schools and schooling.

Students of Color

  • includes attention to students of color.

Supply and Demand

  • includes description of current and projected numbers and need for teachers.

Teacher Pay and Other Financial Factors

  • discusses any of a broad range of financial compensations to teachers currently teaching K-12, including salary, bonuses, fellowships, and others, whether or not it is a specific program designed to increase recruitment or retention.

Teacher Quality

  • examines questions of teacher quality.

Teachers of Color

  • includes attention to teachers of color.

Theoretical

  • primarily develops a new theoretical view of a problem or a field.

Urban

  • discusses urban schools and schooling.