{"id":91286,"date":"2024-03-30T08:53:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T12:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=91286"},"modified":"2024-03-30T08:54:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T12:54:20","slug":"reflections-on-why-teachers-quit-what-you-can-do-instead-peck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2024\/03\/30\/reflections-on-why-teachers-quit-what-you-can-do-instead-peck\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on &#8220;Why Teachers Quit + What You Can Do Instead&#8221; [Peck]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devlinpeck.com\/content\/why-teachers-quit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Why Teachers Quit + What You Can Do Instead<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from devlinpeck.com by Devlin Peck<\/p>\n<p>Today we\u2019ll dive into the main reasons behind why teachers quit and signs to look for if you\u2019re considering quitting teaching too.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>Instructional design<\/strong><br \/>\nInstructional design\u00a0is the process of developing learning experiences for higher education, the corporate world, or for organizations such as non-profits.\u00a0Many teachers transition into the field\u00a0because of overlapping tasks that allow you to continue teaching, all while learning a new skill set. But instructional design also offers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Higher rates of pay than teaching.<\/strong> Instructional design is a better paid industry than teaching. You can also work when and where you like.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Better work-life balance.<\/strong> 94% of instructional designers said they were happy with their work-life balance in our recent survey.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Less stress.\u00a0<\/strong>Instructional design is a less demanding role than teaching as you don\u2019t have the same safety considerations or unreasonable expectations as you have in many teaching jobs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">I hesitate to post this, as I don&#8217;t want to discourage teachers already dealing with all kinds of challenges. But I&#8217;m posting it for the teachers who are tired of fighting a broken one-size-fits-all system that answers to their state&#8217;s legislators (vs. their students\/families\/communities). For those teachers hanging in there, please fight for change where you think it&#8217;s needed.\u00a0 We trust your judgment, as you are on the front lines. And I always try to support people working on the front lines &#8212; whether in business or in schools.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Teachers Quit + What You Can Do Instead &#8212; from devlinpeck.com by Devlin Peck Today we\u2019ll dive into the main reasons behind why teachers quit and signs to look for if you\u2019re considering quitting teaching too. &#8230; Instructional design Instructional design\u00a0is the process of developing learning experiences for higher education, the corporate world, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,86,498,72,343,347,119,46,7,436,89,321,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-development","category-change","category-communities-of-practice","category-daniel-s-christian","category-education","category-education-reform","category-instructional-design","category-k-12-related","category-learning-ecosystem","category-reinvent","category-teachers","category-united-states","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91288,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91286\/revisions\/91288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}