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Nehmeh, Ghada; Kelly, Angela M. – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2018
High school physics teachers in the United States are often in a position of isolation, particularly in urban schools where access to physics is relatively limited. This study explored the issue of professional isolation and how it impacted 2 novice urban physics teachers. The a priori framework incorporated aspects of socialization and the…
Descriptors: High Schools, Secondary School Teachers, Physics, Science Teachers
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Coffey, Heather; Putman, S. Michael; Handler, Laura K.; Leach, Will – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2019
While Grow Your Own (GYO) programs have sought for decades to remedy teacher shortages across the United States, myriad factors, including the demographic shifts in public school populations, have in recent years exacerbated the need to recruit and retain teachers of color and of bilingual backgrounds. Amid models of precollegiate and…
Descriptors: Urban Teaching, Teacher Recruitment, Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation
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Cross, Stephanie Behm; Behizadeh, Nadia; Holihan, Jeanine – Teacher Educator, 2018
Drawing on a teacher concerns framework, alongside notions of critical consciousness, this article examines the extent to which teacher candidates' (TCs') concerns are related in any way to the critical scholarship they have engaged with throughout their teacher education coursework. Utilizing teacher candidates' written dilemmas of practice…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Urban Schools, Reflective Teaching, Qualitative Research
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Fisher, Teresa R.; Many, Joyce E. – School-University Partnerships, 2014
This qualitative inquiry explores perceptions and experiences of three urban educators who had been involved in PDS initiatives both from the school perspective as classroom teachers and mentors to interns and from the university perspective as urban teacher-educators. These ''boundary spanners'' provided insight into and appreciation for the…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, Teacher Educators, Qualitative Research, Inquiry
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Catapano, Susan; Huisman, Sarah – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2013
In our study, we chronicle the development of two novice urban teachers who developed in to mentors in the third year of their teaching. The two novice teachers were hired to serve as mentors to new teachers in or near their school. Interviews with the teachers about their experiences identified three areas of discussion as a result of their…
Descriptors: Mentors, Novices, Leadership, Beginning Teacher Induction
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Hill, K. Dara – Issues in Teacher Education, 2012
This case study is an examination of one pre-service teacher's experience in a reading methods course, entitled Reading Models and Methods, and corresponding urban reading practicum. Jennifer (a pseudonym) participated in a program aimed to address varying dilemmas that persist in the field, including: pre-service teachers' discomfort with…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Urban Teaching, Methods Courses
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Gardiner, Wendy – Teacher Educator, 2012
Approximately 80% of new teachers have mentors, yet mentoring typically fails to foster new teachers' professional learning--particularly in high-poverty schools. This qualitative study was situated within an urban teacher residency context and explored how six first-year urban teachers and the two induction mentors with whom they worked perceived…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Mentors, Poverty
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Garza, Ruben – Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2012
Providing preservice teachers in urban settings with authentic educational experiences may be an effective approach in preparing them to teach diverse students. Therefore, this investigation examined preservice teachers' perceptions of mentoring at-risk high school students. Data analysis reflected preservice teachers' positive experiences and…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Mentors, Educational Experience, Preservice Teachers
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Shernoff, Elisa S.; Marinez-Lora, Ane M.; Frazier, Stacy L.; Jakobsons, Lara J.; Atkins, Marc S. – School Psychology Review, 2011
Despite alarming rates and negative consequences associated with urban teacher attrition, mentoring programs often fail to target the strongest predictors of attrition: effectiveness around classroom management and engaging learners Edution; and connectedness to colleagues. Using a mixed-method iterative development framework, we highlight the…
Descriptors: Evidence, Classroom Techniques, Urban Schools, Mentors
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Taymans, Juliana; Tindle, Kathleen; Freund, Maxine; Ortiz, Deanna; Harris, Lindsay – Urban Education, 2012
The George Washington University's Urban Initiative Professional Development School (UI-PDS) partnership used interviews, surveys, focus groups, and observations to research its effectiveness in preparing urban educators. The research conducted with UI-PDS preservice teachers and first year graduates, indicates they were well equipped to meet the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Urban Teaching, Professional Development Schools, Preservice Teacher Education
Briggs, Judith – Online Yearbook of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2012
Within a two-year mixed method action research study, two cohorts of White senior preservice Art Educators reflected on anti-racist and anti-classist course materials and attended field experiences within urban schools. A majority of both cohorts identified systemic racism within social systems and language after engaging in course materials.…
Descriptors: Action Research, Field Experience Programs, Art Education, Mentors
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Noel, Jana – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2011
This article presents an urban teacher education center as a process model of how a university can cultivate authentic community engagement. Tree essential steps of the process model are identified: (1) being physically located at the school or community site in order to build trust and become integrated into the life of the school or community,…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Partnerships in Education, Higher Education, Urban Teaching
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Rinke, Carol R. – Science Education, 2009
This article reports on a research study investigating the career decision-making processes of urban science teachers as one element central to understanding the high rates of attrition in the field. Using a longitudinal, prospective, context- and subject-specific approach, this study followed the career decisions of case study teachers over a…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Urban Teaching, Career Development, Decision Making
Darling-Hammond, Linda – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2009
The vision Megan Hopkins offers for the future design of Teach for America (TFA) combines the appeal of TFA--a pathway into teaching for able college graduates who are willing to work in high need schools--with recognition that to serve their students well, such schools must have highly skilled teachers who are able to address a wide range of…
Descriptors: Urban Teaching, Teacher Effectiveness, College Graduates, Educational Quality
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Huisman, Sarah; Singer, Nancy Robb; Catapano, Susan – Teacher Development, 2010
Each year, the National Center for Educational Statistics, through the US Department of Education Institute of Educational Sciences, publishes information about the need for millions of new teachers in the USA. Many of these positions are in urban schools. What makes new teachers beat the odds and remain in challenging schools? This study…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Mentors, Beginning Teachers
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