Presenting a model for interest to retention in the teachers of the First secondary education in Tehran

The retention of teachers is important in education.In research a model has been developed for retention of teachers.

This research is mixed in terms of applied purpose and in terms of data type.Gathering information by studying texts theories models and research and initial interview and forming a focus group with6talented people and by purposeful sampling and semi-structured interviews with19educationexperts(School principals and teachers with more than15 years of experience)was done and a researcher-made questionnaire was prepared and they were asked to comment on importance of the identified components and indicators and to explain the dimensions, components and indicators not mentioned in the open question.To obtain data reliability and validity, two methods of reviewing participants and reviewing non-participants in the research were used. Data were analyzed by means of one-sample t-test and the final model was developed.Findings and

The findings showed that the proposed model of teachers' retention has two dimensions of environmental factors with components of social, economic, welfare and livelihood, legal and organizational and social justice and professional factors with components of occupational factors Job satisfaction and quality of work life and38indicators.Among components the quality of work life with a factor load of0.90social factors with a factor load0.87 job factors with a factor load0.78the organizational and social justice with a factor load of0.70 livelihood and welfare factors with a factor load of0.65the legal factors with a factor load of0.63 job satisfaction with a factor load of0.56and economic factors with a factor load of0.52were the most important coefficient.