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Hobbs, Kari S.; Putnam, Jennifer – Journal of Organizational and Educational Leadership, 2016
This study is concerned with the experiences of beginning teachers working with a district-employed mentor. Based on Illeris's (2002) Three Dimensions of Learning, the study sought to understand the cognitive, emotional, and social processes involved in working with a mentor through the use of one-on one, in-depth interviews. Nine beginning…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Mentors, Experience, Elementary School Teachers
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Harkness, Shelly Sheats; Brass, Amy – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2017
Mathematics methods texts are important resources for supporting preservice teachers' learning. Methods instructors routinely assign readings from texts. Yet, anecdotally and also based on reading compliance literature, many students report that they do not read assigned readings. Within this paper we briefly describe the findings from a survey of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Methods Courses, Assignments
Kinghorn, Brian Edward – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Subject-specific content knowledge is crucial for effective science teaching, yet many teachers are entering the field not fully equipped with all the science content knowledge they need to effectively teach the subject. Learning from practice is one approach to bridging the gap between what practicing teachers know and what they need to know.…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Beginning Teachers, Science Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Fortner, C. Kevin; Kershaw, David C.; Bastian, Kevin C.; Lynn, Heather H. – Teachers College Record, 2015
Background/Context: In response to a shortage of highly qualified teachers, states and school districts have enacted a number of policy innovations over the last two decades. While researchers have evaluated many of these reforms, little is known about the initial effectiveness of individuals with prior teaching assistant experience. We review…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Teacher Aides, Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Effectiveness
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Albright, Joyce L.; Safer, L. Arthur; Sims, Paul A.; Tagaris, Angela; Glasgow, Denise; Sekulich, Kim M.; Zaharis, Mary C. – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2017
This research investigated the experiences of new teachers employed in urban school districts and how these novice teachers' perceived school district and school administrators' support required to retain them as well as teacher's perceptions of their pre-service experiences and/or induction programs necessary to prepare them for an urban…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Urban Schools, Teacher Persistence
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Jones, Griff; Dana, Thomas; LaFramenta, Joanne; Adams, Thomasenia Lott; Arnold, Jason Dean – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2016
The STEM TIPS mobile-ready support platform gives institutions or school districts the ability to provide immediate and customized mentoring to teachers through multiple tiers of web-based support and resources. Using the results of a needs assessment, STEM TIPS was created and launched in partnership with 18 Florida school districts. Further…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Beginning Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Mentors
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Bettini, Elizabeth; Jones, Nathan; Brownell, Mary; Conroy, Maureen; Park, Yujeong; Leite, Walter; Crockett, Jean; Benedict, Amber – Remedial and Special Education, 2017
Novice special educators (those in their first 3 years) consistently report their workloads are unmanageable. Yet, it is not clear whether their perceptions of workload manageability contribute to outcomes of concern such as emotional exhaustion (a component of burnout) or intentions to continue teaching in their schools and districts. This pilot…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Special Education Teachers, General Education, Emotional Response
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Youngs, Peter; Kwak, Hyun-Seung; Pogodzinski, Ben – Journal of School Leadership, 2015
This article reports on a 2-year qualitative research study of the processes by which middle school principals' policies and actions shaped the experiences of five novice teachers in two Michigan school districts. We examined beginning teachers' perceptions of principals' approaches to managing student behavior, instructional leadership, and…
Descriptors: Principals, School Administration, Teacher Administrator Relationship, Teacher Attitudes
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Desimone, Laura; Hochberg, Eric D.; McMaken, Jennifer – Teachers College Record, 2016
Background/Context: We lack strong and consistent information about which measures of knowledge matter most for good teaching and student learning, and what are trajectories of improvement for novice teachers. Research Questions: We explore the level, variation, and change in teacher knowledge and instruction in the first two years of teaching,…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Beginning Teachers, Middle School Teachers
Wider, Beyonka Shantel – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Retaining teachers is a pressing issue facing many urban middle schools in the southern US. Urban middle schools continually face increased teacher turnover rates in spite of state mandated induction and mentoring programs. Drawing from Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory, the purpose of the qualitative case study was to examine urban middle…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Urban Schools, Middle Schools, Labor Turnover
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LaSalle, Dan – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2015
Struck by his students' often hostile and apathetic responses to assignments and instruction and hoping to contribute to the knowledge of motivation, Dan LaSalle began to take an inquiry stance on his own practice. He studied his practice on three fronts with the help of an off-site teacher research group: (1) how his inquiry question changes as a…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Essays, Writing Instruction, Inquiry
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Ortega, Irasema; Luft, Julie A.; Wong, Sissy S. – School Science and Mathematics, 2013
Early career science teachers are often assigned to classrooms with high numbers of English language learners (ELLs). For the underprepared early career science teacher, these circumstances are challenging. This study examines the changes in beliefs and practices of an early career science teacher who taught high numbers of ELLs in an urban…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Beginning Teachers, English Language Learners, Urban Schools
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Belknap, Bridget; Taymans, Juliana – Journal of Special Education Apprenticeship, 2015
Special education teachers leave the field at a rate that outpaces their general education teacher counterparts, with special education teaching positions unfilled at a rate 5.5 times greater than general education positions (Boe, 2006). This study identified perceptions of risk and resilience in nine first year special education teachers in order…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Beginning Teachers, Risk, Resilience (Psychology)
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Hsu, Chung-Yuan; Tsai, Meng-Jung; Chang, Yu-Hsuan; Liang, Jyh-Chong – Educational Technology & Society, 2017
Using the Game-based-learning Teaching Belief Scale (GTBS) and the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge--Games questionnaire (TPACK-G), this study investigated 316 Taiwanese in-service teachers' teaching beliefs about game-based learning and their perceptions of game-based pedagogical content knowledge (GPCK). Both t-tests and ANOVA…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Surveys, Experienced Teachers, Beginning Teachers
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Yanisko, Emily Joy – Journal of Urban Mathematics Education, 2016
In this article, the author reports on a participant-observation case study that explored how alternatively certified, middle school teachers' expectations of tracked students affect their ability to learn to teach in ways that promote students' mathematical struggle and participation in productive mathematical discussions. Two teachers--one…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Case Studies, Participant Observation
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