Older Teachers
Older teachers show greater empathy with students and are more patient, as they have learned from their own mistakes.
Older teachers are more likely to adopt families in the communities where they work.
Older teachers can provide a better understanding of the world outside of school. They have seen the evolution of pop culture and technology, which often reaches younger audiences only years or decades later. Older teachers can bridge gaps between their parents or grandparents’ generations and young children, who might never even meet their elders.
Older teachers are less likely to treat students as objects and more likely to relate to them as people. Older teachers are less likely to view the relationship between school and family as adversarial, which may lead them to respond differently when students behave inappropriately.
Older teachers care more about their discipline practices than younger ones. Older teachers view the role of classroom discipline more seriously, teaching disciplinary practices in a meaningful way instead of just resorting to name-calling. This has the effect of raising student behavior standards and improving teacher-student relationships.
Older teachers have more experience dealing with difficult situations involving minority populations, such as race, language, culture and socioeconomic disadvantage. Their experience in working with such groups translates into better teacher-student relationships.
Older teachers are more likely to be involved in school-based programs that help the school community, for example, parent-teacher associations, school social work departments and well-being programming. This involvement may influence their students’ well-being and academic performance.
Bureau of Labor Statistics (2012) http://www.bls.gov/opub/ibb/2012editorial/p00000006.htm Mature Employment: A New Frontier for Older Workers . By Rosemary Battaglia, Maria Eide and Steven Hipple.
Young Adult Employment Project. http://www.yaepp.org/articles/what-do-youths-want_3094bffbc60c13dbb8e882f43d2e2569.html
If the World Were Different: The Benefits of Older Workers . By Laura Vanderkam and Annie Hill, Harvard Business Review (May 2012) http://hbr.org/2012/05/if-the-world-were-different-the-benefits/ar/.
Older Teachers Are Better Teachers: Evidence from Longitudinal Student Success . By Erika Wright, Susan Dynarski, and Bret Harned, Education Next (Spring 2011) http://educationnext.org/older-teachers-better-teachers/
The Longitudinal Effects of Exposure to Older Teachers on Student Achievement . By Y. Cai, S. Ho, R. Huo and S. Luo, Economics of Education Review (Fall 2005) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16194720?dopt=Abstract
The Evolution of the World's Population http://www.worldpopulationhistory.com/Ages_of_History/Worlds%20Population%20History%20Evolutionism%201999000a%20to%205999000a/WorldsPopulationHistoryEvolutionism1...
Older teachers settle into their jobs more quickly than younger ones.
Teaching in the Public Schools of British Columbia, 1871-1913 by W.L. Mackenzie, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1965.
Chapter 1: The Age of Teachers in the British Columbia System - http://books.google.ca/books?id=Z_eQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=OBTAINED+RESULTS+ON+AGE+OF+TEACHING
Chapter 3: Mature Teachers and Their Offspring - http://books.google.ca/books?id=Z_eQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA326&lpg=PA326&dq=OBTAINED+RESULTS+ON+AGE+OF+TEACHING
Chapter 4: The Mature Teacher and His Family - http://books.google.ca/books?id=Z_eQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA441&lpg=PA441&dq=OBTAINED+RESULTS+ON+AGE+OF+TEACHING
Chapter 5: Some Conclusions and Policies - http://books.google.ca/books?id=Z_eQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA566&lpg=PA566&dq=OBTAINED+RESULTS+ON+AGE+OF+TEACHING
Chapter 6: Conclusions and Recommendations - http://books.google.ca/books?id=Z_eQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA552&lpg=PA552&dq=OBTAINED+RESULTS+ON+AGE+OF+TEACHING
Chapter 7: The Mature Teacher and His Family - http://books.google.ca/books?id=Z_eQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA743&lpg=PA743&dq=OBTAINED+RESULTS+ON+AGE+OF+TEACHING
Chapter 8: Responding to the Obvious Task, but Ignoring the Unsaid Task - http://books.google.ca/books?id=Z_eQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA685&lpg=PA685&dq=OBTAINED+RESULTS+ON+AGE+OF+TEACHING
Chapter 9: The Nature and Value of Tertiary Professional Education - http://books.google.ca/books?id=Z_eQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA738&lpg=PA738&dq=OBTAINED+RESULTS+ON+AGE+OF+TEACHING
Chapter 10: The Nature of the Mature Teacher and His Professional Education - http://books.google.ca/books?id=Z_eQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA758&lpg=PA758&dq=OBTAINED+RESULTS+ON+AGE+OF+TEACHING
Chapter 11: Attempted Solutions to Some Problems Posed by the Age of Teachers - http://books.google.ca/books?id=Z_eQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA774&lpg=PA774&dq=OBTAINED+RESULTS+ON+AGE+OF+TEACHING
Chapter 12: The Social and Economic Value of Educating Mature People - http://books.google.ca/books?id=Z_eQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA812&lpg=PA812&dq=OBTAINED+RESULTS+ON+AGE+OF+TEACHING
Chapter 13: A School-Based Intervention to Increase the Mobility of Mature Women Into Teaching - http://books.google.
Conclusion - http://books.google.ca/books?id=6UuCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA2&lpg=PA2&dq=OBTAINED+RESULTS+ON+AGE+OF+TEACHING
Chapter 14: How to Extend the Service of Women Who Teach - http://books.google.ca/books?id=aIgCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA157&lpg=PA157&dq=OBTAINED+RESULTS+ON+AGE+OF+TEACHING
Why (Most) Teachers Work Too Much: Consequences, Causes, and Possible Solutions - http://ams.usaph.ufl.
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