Top 3 teacher dissatisfactions
With 40-50% of teachers leaving the profession within their first 5 years of teaching, the topic of teacher attrition is one that deserves attention (Ingersoll and Smith, 2003). There are many reasons why an individual may decide to leave the teaching profession, but 29% of beginning teachers said that job dissatisfaction was why the left (Ingersoll and Smith, 2003). After doing research about why teachers leave the profession, I was able to narrow down the list to the top 3 dissatisfactions and I have explored them in greater detail. I have personally experienced and attribute my own decision to leave the teaching profession to these 3 reasons as well.