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CONCERN ONE: Are New Teachers Demoralized and Uncommitted?
Despite headlines depicting new teachers as disillusioned, findings from this study show that the overwhelming majority of new teachers say that teaching is work they love to do. Most beginning teachers — those who have been in the classrooms for five years or less — say that they want a job where they can make a difference and that they have committed to teaching as a lifelong choice. School administrators — superintendents and principals — also give the new teaching corps high marks. And despite high-profile predictions of a pending teacher shortage, few school administrators currently report widespread hiring problems in their districts. They point to pockets of shortages that they characterize as serious but manageable.
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