Staff Turnover in a School (Part 1)

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In the context of school, staff turnover refers to the rate at which teaching and non-teaching staff leave the school either voluntarily or involuntarily.
Most of the time, parents complain about their students' academic performance and might blame it on other things. In as much as I accept that there are different factors that can affect a child's academic performance, staff turnover is one factor that is mostly overlooked or not considered.
But personally, I believe that the frequent movement of a class teacher has the capacity to affect a child's academic performance. Listed below are some of the few ways that teachers' turnover can affect the students' academic performance.

Effect of Teachers' Turnover on the Students' Academic Performance

🖊️ Disruption of the student learning progress: Every teacher teaches following the scheme, and when a teacher leaves a particular class and another teacher comes in, if he or she was not well coached, he might skip some topics that were not completed by the previous teacher.

🖊️ Makes the students unstable: Frequent changing of teachers can make the students feel unstable and not connected because it will take the students time to study, adjust, and adapt to the pattern of the new teacher.

🖊️ Loss of experienced teachers: Frequent movement of teachers from a school will lead to losing competent and experienced teachers, and this also affects the students.

🖊️ Frequent movement of teachers out of the school increases workload for the remaining teachers. It is worthy of note that no matter how good a teacher is, if he or she is overworked, he will never be able to perform to the best of his ability.

🖊️ The student-teacher relationship will be missing.

Aside from affecting the students' academic performance, teachers' turnover also to some extent affects the reputation of the school, which might affect the level of admission.

In my next write-up, I will talk about strategies for curbing teachers' turnover in school.
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