Though a variety of studies have considered the impact of mentoring on beginning teachers, there is little research that explores effective ways to support their work. This qualitative study addresses that gap in the literature by describing how one mentoring program sought to develop mentors' understanding of their local context by sharing…

New teacher mentoring has been a topic within general education research for decades. As general education researchers have investigated the needs of content specific new teacher support (Shores & Stokes, 2006) as well as digital environments for their professional development (Jones, 2013, January 1), music education researchers have…

Administrators provide a unique and essential testimony to the needs and challenges of new teachers as they serve as their observers, evaluators, and employers. This phenomenological study focuses on the insights and perspectives of ten elementary, middle, and high school administrators regarding the challenges new teachers face and innovative…

Findings of a longitudinal multiple case-study on early career teachers (following-up, semi-structured interviews at four moments during the first year of teaching) are presented to substantiate and analytically unravel their professional development (encompassing a technical, a moral, a political and an emotional dimension) as resulting from the…

In this article we present and discuss some theoretical and methodological elements of a wider research that analyzes the teaching practice of two teachers novice and expert from a semiotic theoretical approach. The conceptual framework of this work allows for addressing the epistemological and didactic dimensions of the teaching practice. Three…

Teacher candidates bring many beliefs and interpretations of mathematics teaching and learning at the start of their teacher preparation coursework (e.g. methods courses, field experiences, assessment). Well-prepared beginning teachers in many instances requires programs and designed experience to breakdown unproductive beliefs and/or improve…

For more than decades, mentoring has gained its popularity and has been recognized to be an effective way in helping novice teachers to deal with challenges facing them in their first years. As mentoring deals with human relation, thus relationship between mentor and novice teachers plays significant roles for mentoring effective outcome. The…

This paper examines the newly introduced Induction Framework for teachers in England. The new term of early career teacher (ECT) has replaced the NQT label and the one-year programme has been extended to two, based on the "Early Career Framework." The reasons for the change are to aid recruitment, prevent high numbers leaving the…

This study reports on an early career Year 2 teacher's reflections of enacting specifically structured resource materials and her practice change when participating in a mathematics professional learning project. A qualitative case study was designed to examine the reflections of a teacher's pre-service and in-service teaching experiences. Data…

This study focused on aligning the Bachelor of Early Childhood Education Curriculum Components per PPST to come up a teacher quality framework for ECE pre-service teachers in the Philippines. Using unpacking of beginning teachers' indicators (BTIs) in PPST and content analysis, distinct competencies were ascertained. A total of eight participants…

Previous research at the local level on informal observations of classroom teachers by school principals suggests that the frequency of informal observations has little or no effect on teachers' perceptions of school climate. This study employs School and Staffing Survey (SASS) data to examine to the extent to which these results are replicated or…

This paper examines a social design-based approach to supporting beginning elementary school teachers toward ambitious and equitable mathematics teaching. First-year teachers were enlisted as co-designers of a learning community aimed at supporting participants to build classroom math communities that leverage students' diverse mathematical…

Teacher induction is a widespread instrument used to attract, develop and commit beginning teachers (BT) to teaching. However, BTs differ in their ability to teach and in the rate they develop their teaching skills during the first years on the job. The objective of this study is to unravel the support afforded to BTs in relation to their teaching…

Digital storytelling (DST) is described as 'the modern expression of the ancient art of storytelling' with one of its categories focusing on personal narratives in which authors tell their own personal stories about significant experiences in their lives. The imperative to tap into our students' social-emotional learning through DST and creating a…

Though building from students' mathematical strengths rather than focusing on deficits is considered an important part of pre-service preparation towards equitable teaching, there is little research on how to support beginning teachers to carry forward this commitment. This paper reports on a design-based study aimed at supporting first-year…