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The most, and least, experienced teachers
Here’s another chunk of data from school district report cards about teachers. More experienced teachers, generally, know some of the better tricks of the trade.
On the other hand, younger teachers sometimes are better trained in the most recent teaching techniques. Having a less experienced teaching staff is not always a major impediment to good school district test performance. Growing districts tend to hire more new teachers, for instance. Look at Mason — one of the best scoring districts on tests. The rapidly growing district has the least experienced teaching staff among the 82 school districts in the Dayton-area (That’s 10 counties — Darke, Shelby, Champaign, Miami, Clark, Preble, Montgomery, Greene, Warren and Butler).
Here are the districts with the most experienced and least experienced teachers:
These districts all have average teacher experience of 17 years or more
Yellow Springs 22
Cedar Cliff 21
Bethel 20
Twin Valley 20
Southeastern 20
Northridge 19
Springfield 19
Sugarcreek 18
Tri-Village 18
Covington 18
Frankin Monroe 18
Eaton 18
Arcanum 18
Fort Loramie 18
Jackson Center 18
Russia 18
Graham 18
Clark-Shawnee 17
Northwestern 17
Newton 17
Troy 17
Tri-County North 17
Botkins 17
These districts all have average teacher experience of 13 years or less
New Lebanon 13
Carlisle 13
Lakota 13
Triad 13
Fairlawn 13
Franklin 13
Northmont 13
Lebanon 13
Hamilton 13
Oakwood 13
Wayne 13
Dayton 12
Fairfield 12
Urbana 12
Madison 12
Mississinawa Valley 12
Talawanda 12
New Miami 12
Kings 12
Edgewood 12
Ross 12
Miamisburg 12
Bradford 11
Monroe 11
Trotwood 10
Little Miami 10
Mason 8
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