RUME 14 (Volume 4)
2011
Portland, Oregon
A TRIGONOMETRY RECITATION EXPERIENCE FOR PRE-SERVICE SECONDARY MATH TEACHERS
Page: 239
is not keeping pace with demand (Liu et al., 2008; National Research Council, 2002). According to Ingersoll and Perda (2009), the problem is more than a number game. Part of the problem resides in the fact that teachers are not happy with the profession once they are out in the fields, causing the number of teaching leaving the profession to be greater than the number of teachers entering the profession. This is especially the case in low-income areas where they are 77% more likely to be taught by out of field teachers compared to students from high socioeconomic backgrounds (Ingersoll, 2003). Attrition is also a compounding factor as recent research reveals 20 to 30% of teachers have left the profession within the first five years (Darling-Hammond, 2001).