Factors Influencing the Retention of Secondary Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers

Staffing classrooms with quality teachers has always been a high priority for schools and is no less important today. In addressing the No Child Left Behind mandate for highly qualified teachers for every child,Berry (2002)commented that the definition of highly qualified was unclear and posed a problem in building the profession of teaching. Research is needed to identify the strengths and weaknesses of teachers remaining in the profession to assist in defining the attributes of highly qualified in relation to CTE teachers with the purpose of determining possible retention factors.