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Helping Pre-Service and Beginning Teachers Examine and Reframe Assumptions about Themselves as Teachers and Change Agents: "Who Is Going to Listen to You Anyway?"
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MacPhail, Ann; Tannehill, Deborah – Quest, 2012
The focus of this article is how to ensure (beginning) teachers' needs as practitioners are part of the discursive dialogue in physical education teacher education programs. We consider the relationship between "structure" and "agency," teachers as "change agents" and refer to "workplace learning" as we…
Descriptors: Faculty, Workplace Learning, Physical Education, Preservice Teacher Education
Reflection in a Social Space: Can Blogging Support Reflective Practice for Beginning Teachers?
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Killeavy, Maureen; Moloney, Anne – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
This study reports on an investigation on the use of electronic journals to support beginning teachers in developing reflection on teaching within peer support networks. The study takes place within the context of the ongoing Pilot Project on Teacher Induction in post-primary schools in Ireland. A pilot study using web logs (blogs) was initiated…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Social Support Groups, Electronic Publishing, Educational Technology
Induction Needs of a Group of Teachers at Different Career Stages in a School in the Republic of Ireland: Challenges and Expectations
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Aitken, Ro; Harford, Judith – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2011
This study examines the induction needs of a group of teachers at different career stages working in a socially disadvantaged secondary school in the Republic of Ireland. 44 teachers participated in the study, 11 of whom were student teachers, 11 of whom were newly qualified teachers and 22 of whom were experienced teachers returning to the school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Student Teachers