ASE launches support for teachers thinking about quitting

The Association for Science Education (ASE) has launched Science Teacher SOS – a guide to support science teachers considering leaving teaching.

’We’re losing science teachers very quickly. Teachers are hard to recruit, and once we’ve recruited them, we lose them,’ says Andy Chandler-Grevatt who authored the guide for the ASE’s 11-19 committee. ’All of the committee members have seen teachers leaving the profession out of desperation, without considering other opportunities open to them within science education. We wanted to find a way of supporting teachers to make an informed decision about leaving teaching.’