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New Kindergarten Teachers' (NKTs) Transition into Teaching in Their Induction Year: Teachers' and Mentors' Perspectives
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Rinat Arviv Elyashiv; Rivi Carmel; Katya Rozenberg – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
Kindergarten teachers' work is unique because they juggle the roles of caregiver to young children, tending to their physical, emotional and educational needs, and managing their kindergarten unit. The year of internship and transition into teaching is particularly intense. For new kindergarten teachers (NKTs) to fully integrate in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Beginning Teacher Induction
A Team-Based Perspective for School Improvement: The Mediating Role of School Management Teams
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Benoliel, Pascale – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2021
The call for a more collective approach to school leadership motivated the present study. The proposed model examined the mediating role of school management team (SMT) effectiveness in the relationship of SMT characteristics of goal interdependence (the extent to which a shared goal requiring cooperation is present) and functional heterogeneity…
Descriptors: Teamwork, School Supervision, School Effectiveness, Leadership Effectiveness
Principals' Informal Methods for Appraising Poor-Performing Teachers
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Yariv, Eliezer – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2009
Teacher appraisal is never an easy task, especially of teachers experiencing difficulties and failures. Nevertheless it is a requirement for good management, in our schools no less than our corporations. Forty elementary school principals in Israel described the informal methods they use to appraise teachers who are performing poorly. Most…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Evaluation, Elementary Schools
The Appraisal of Teachers' Performance and Its Impact on the Mutuality of Principal-Teacher Emotions
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Yariv, Eliezer – School Leadership & Management, 2009
The current study examines the mutual discrete emotions among superiors and their above- and below-average workers within a hierarchical organisation (school). Using a survey method within a random sample of 40 elementary schools in Northern Israel, each principal and four of his or her teachers (two who had been appraised as excellent and two who…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Administration, Principals, Elementary School Teachers
Deterioration in Teachers' Performance: Causes and Some Remedies
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Yariv, Eliezer – World Journal of Education, 2011
Why do teachers become poor performers? In semi-structured interviews, forty elementary school principals in Israel described the personal story of one poor-performing staff member. Half of the problematic teachers were veteran teachers who faced a marked internal and external shift in mid-career. The seeds of their problems were probably planted…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Job Performance, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries
The Perceived Significance of the Supervisor, the Assistant, and Parents for Career Development of Beginning Kindergarten Teachers
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Oplatka, Izhar; Eizenberg, Mervar – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2007
Whereas much research attention has been given to the induction stage of beginning schoolteachers worldwide, there is a limited knowledge base on the experiences of new kindergarten teachers at this stage, despite the different work tasks and contexts of both groups of teachers. Based on semi-structured interviews with 15 Israeli kindergarten…
Descriptors: Supervisors, Career Development, Teacher Attitudes, Kindergarten