High Turnover Rate in ECE

The topic I would like to research is the teachers’ high turnover in the early childhood field. I want to go further into depth why there is such a high teacher turnover rate. Why is it that after a year almost half of the staff hired a year ago has changed? In my center alone there has been about thirteen turnovers within the last year. In one month four people quit and two people terminated within two months! What is going on? As I consider some of the reasons such as lack of experience, burn out, family needs, and health, I wonder what can the industry do to combat these issues? How can we research this issue and come up with a reasonable solution? If these issues could be solved it will benefit children so greatly. Teachers form relationships with teachers and that bond should not be constantly broken several times throughout the year. Children will have closer bonds with teachers and develop trust and security. They need that for social and emotional skills, language skills, and cognitive skills. Also, teachers teach differently. One teacher could be boring and another teacher highly energetic. That can make the difference between whether a child is developmentally challenged because of the educational inconsistencies (Noriko Porter, Washington State University, Department of Human Development, Instructor, 2012).

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Noriko Porter, Washington State University, Department of Human Development, Instructor. (2012). High Turnover among Early Childhood Educators in the United States. Retrieved from http://www.childresearch.net/projects/ecec/2012_04.html