Invest in the Future of Education: Building a stable and quality beginning teacher workforce

Abstract

<p>The purpose of this study was to search for new knowledge to inform beginning teacher (1-5 years experience) retention strategies that will improve the stabilization of the beginning teacher workforce. The objective of the Beginning Teacher Workforce investigation was to examine the perceptions of beginning teachers and their school leaders with a focus on their lived experiences and expectations. Gadamer (1976) stated that ‘truth becomes the adjustment of the entity “judgment” to the entity “object”’ and further claimed that ‘truth is transformed from an event of disclosure in which beings stand out to information residing in the adequate representation of beings’ (p. I). The report gives beginning teachers and school leaders a voice through sharing their truths as they were found in the field.</p>