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Malow-Iroff, Micheline S.; O'Connor, Evelyn A.; Bisland, Beverly Milner – Teacher Development, 2007
The Teaching Fellows program in New York City (NYC) is an alternative certification teaching program. This study investigates a sample (n = 68) of Queens College Teaching Fellows' perceptions about their teaching experience. Results indicate that 29% of TFs intend to leave their current teaching positions at the end of their contract. Pearson…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Alternative Teacher Certification, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Persistence
Smith, Deborah L.; Smith, Brian J. – High School Journal, 2006
This study offers an interpretive exploration of teachers' perceptions of violence, and its links with their decisions to leave urban schools. The study presents the stories of those who began their career in urban districts and then left within five years. In-depth, semi-structured interviews with twelve former urban educators are the main source…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Teaching Conditions, Urban Teaching, Violence
Leroux, Karen – History of Education Quarterly, 2006
Most narratives of teacher activism began at the turn of the twentieth century. Though historians acknowledge the formation of earlier local associations, they tend to dismiss them as merely "social organizations." The clubs that teachers formed between the 1870s and 1890s were indeed social, but the author argues that their social…
Descriptors: Teacher Associations, Teachers, Women Faculty, United States History
Nath, Janice, Ed.; Guadarrama, Irma N., Ed.; Ramsey, John, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011
Investigating University-School Partnerships: A Volume in Professional Development School Research, the fourth book in the PDS Research Series developed by the same editors, includes a collection of organized papers that represent the best and latest examples of practitioner thinking, research, and program design and evaluation in the field at the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Urban Teaching, Professional Development Schools, Mentors
Waddell, Jennifer – Teacher Education and Practice, 2008
The percentage of urban teachers who leave the profession within the first 5 years is more than 50%; inadequate preparation is often cited as a cause of urban teacher attrition. This article explores a qualitative study regarding teachers' perceptions of their experience of and preparation for teaching in urban schools. Data from teachers in urban…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Focus Groups, Career Change
Freedman, Sarah Warshauer; Appleman, Deborah – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2008
America's urban public schools and their students are in dire need of a durable and committed corps of teachers, teachers who are willing to stay in education long enough to make a difference in the conditions of those schools, and most importantly, in student achievement. Many traditional teacher education programs critique alternative programs…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Persistence, Case Studies
Ilmer, Steven; Kirby, Peggy C. – Online Submission, 2007
The 21 urban research universities that are members of the Great Cities' Universities (GCU) annually enroll approximately 20 percent of the students in the United States who are preparing to teach in K12 urban schools. This study examined the experiences of GCU-sponsored, school-university teacher preparation partnerships in Atlanta, Houston,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Urban Teaching, Urban Schools, Research Universities
Garth-McCullough, Ruanda – Negro Educational Review, The, 2007
While reform options such as creating new schools seem tempting, they challenge the ills of public schools with new school creation under the same system. Of interest are the lessons that can be gleaned from teachers at a new small school that serves a Black American population. A theory on declining institutions was used to explore teachers'…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Small Schools, Educational Quality, African American Students
McKinney, Sueanne E.; Fuller, Sherell; Hancock, Stephen; Audette, Bob – Teacher Education and Practice, 2006
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 set forth to hold all schools accountable to high standards and address the long-standing objective of closing the achievement gap between students from high and low socioeconomic backgrounds. The guidelines and criteria that describe highly qualified teachers emphasize pedigrees and standardized test scores as…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Urban Teaching, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Qualifications
Anderson, Lauren; Olsen, Brad – Journal of Teacher Education, 2006
Despite their interconnectedness, teacher education, teacher development, and teacher retention are often treated as discrete domains of inquiry. This article and the research on which it reports resist such compartmentalization and instead focus on relationships between teachers' pasts, presents, and futures. In particular, this qualitative study…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, College Graduates, Urban Teaching, Urban Education
Deng, Meng – Frontiers of Education in China, 2008
This study investigated the attitudes of primary school teachers from the selected rural and urban areas in China toward inclusive education. The results indicated that, (1) teachers' attitudes are composed of three dimensions: positive and negative effects of inclusion, and benefits of segregated special education; (2) most surveyed teachers…
Descriptors: Special Schools, Urban Teaching, Inclusive Schools, Foreign Countries
Henninger, Mary L. – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2007
The purpose of this study was to understand factors that influenced the career trajectories of veteran urban secondary physical education teachers. The careers of these teachers were studied from the theoretical perspectives of teacher efficacy and teacher career development. Participants included 9 secondary urban physical education teachers (4…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Career Development, Physical Education Teachers, Urban Teaching
Rogalsky, Jennifer – Journal of Geography, 2009
Scholars have provided numerous critical analyses of the structural causes of poverty. Unfortunately, many teachers are still led to believe, via best selling books and mainstream discourse, that behaviors, neighborhoods, and families determine educational outcomes. This "culture of poverty" theory must be disproved; educators need to be…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Teacher Effectiveness, Poverty, Outcomes of Education
Ware, Franita – Urban Education, 2006
This study operationalizes warm demander pedagogy as a component of culturally responsive teaching. These instructional methods emerged during a study that examined the pedagogy of two African American urban teachers as compared to the literature. Through observations and interviews, the study examined the following: (a) How did each teacher…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, African American Teachers, Culturally Relevant Education, Urban Teaching
Keller, Bess – Education Week, 2006
This article reports the promising outcomes of a new mentoring program that helps novice teachers in New York City improve their quality of teaching and stem the number of those who leave. Calling the program "possibly the largest, most aggressive overhaul of teacher induction in the country," researchers of the New Teacher Center at the…
Descriptors: Mentors, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Centers, Beginning Teacher Induction