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Staffing rural and remote areas: a study of attracting, satisfying and retaining secondary teachers in Alice Springs
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Marshall, Anne |
| Copyright Year | 1999 |
| Abstract | Schools, businesses and medical services in Alice Springs struggle to lind good staff to replace those who leave alter a year or two, and struggle to carry the financial and organisational burden of stall turnover. Is this an indication of "Rural Decline" that has been prominent in the media for the last few years? Docs this isolated but dynamic regional centre reveal any ideas on attracting and keeping stall that may be useful in other non-urban locations? To investigate staff attraction, satisfl1ction and retention in Alice Springs, the teachers at four secondary schools participated in a mixed method inductive research project during 1999. Semi-structured fifteen minute interviews were run with fifty five teachers, while another twenty six completed open-ended multiple choice questionnaires based on the responses to questions in the interviews. Permission was gained from the principals, hut they were not interviewed; the responses were staff-based. Longer interviews were conducted with an assistant principal, two research scientists and the Director of Nursing at the Remote Area I Icalth Services. Comment was also sought from the school principals and other stakeholders. The interviews were analysed to discover common themes, and the responses of all participants presented as tables giving a picture of the strength of each response. These were then reordered to show the strongest responses gi vcn by these secondary teachers to questions such as "what do you find most satisfying about your job'?" These prioritised responses were compared to research findings and theories on attraction, job satisfaction and retention. This literature revealed the interconnectedness of staff attraction, orientation, induction, satisfaction and retention and suggested ways that the expressed dissatisfactions ofthe /\lice Springs secondary teachers might be addressed for the benefit of stall schools, and community. 7 The literature also showed that the dissatisfactions and satisfactions of the teachers in Alice Springs were not peculiar to their situation, but much more universal. The attraction, satisfaction and retention of stall in Alice Springs has much to do with simply providing good, or very good jobs, as well as providing the means of overcoming the fact of isolation. Anne Marshall, Alice Springs, 1999 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/bitstream/handle/11343/37228/284234_Marshall_ocr.pdf?isAllowed=y&sequence=1 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
