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Direct linkChristian Taylor White – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Problem: The high attrition rate among teachers poses significant challenges for schools (Carver-Thomas & Darling-Hammond, 2019; Covay Minor et al., 2019; Hammonds, 2017; Ingersoll & Strong, 2011; Kamrath & Bradford, 2020; Ryu & Jinnai, 2021), particularly in urban settings with diverse student populations (Carver-Thomas &…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Teacher Leadership, Leadership Role, Urban Education
Luckett, Tiffany Pointer – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this study was to examine the factors that impact teachers' decisions to remain teaching in an urban school district. The researcher analyzed survey data provided by the Office of Planning and Accountability for an urban school district in Tennessee. The findings of the study are also discussed as well as any implication for…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Urban Teaching, Teacher Persistence, School Districts
Siuty, Molly Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Urban education systems serve nearly 16 million students and employ almost one million teachers in the United States. The preparation of teachers for urban settings must attend to the unique and complex historical and sociocultural context of urban communities. This includes disrupting dominant stereotypes, particularly of urban communities of…
Descriptors: Urban Education, Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Professional Identity
Brodeur, Lori J. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This grounded theory study highlights the words of urban career teachers who participated on a wikispace (wiki). The purpose of the investigation was to offer urban career teachers a space, outside of their daily work, in which to recognize and understand their professionalism. The grounded theory content analysis is carried out by way of a study…
Descriptors: Urban Teaching, Urban Education, Professional Identity, Teacher Attitudes
Simon, Robert M. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study is the result of my work as a teacher educator in an English methods course and a member of an inquiry community I formed with eight of my students, all middle and secondary student English teachers at the University of Pennsylvania. I investigate what was at stake for them in learning to teach English in Philadelphia urban schools in…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Educational Research, English Teachers, English Teacher Education
Davis, Nichole S. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this narrative study was to explore the thoughts, perceptions, and experiences of 12 urban middle school teachers who were once urban middle school students. The study sought to discover reasons why these teachers returned to urban middle schools to teach and why they decided to stay. A qualitative methodology, using the…
Descriptors: Caring, Urban Schools, Middle Schools, Parent Participation
Gupta, Preeti – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation investigates how teaching in a hands-on science center contributes to re/shaping one's teaching identity. Situated at the New York Hall of Science (NYHS) in Queens, New York, my research approach is to conduct a critical ethnography where the focus is on improving the teaching and learning of science for all involved. In…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Ethnography, Hands on Science, Museums
