Lessons to plan, meetings to attend, bulletin boards to keep up on, and students to educate are just a few of the challenges encountered during the first year of teaching. For many teachers, it is not the hours or workload that cause the most stress, but rather the very people they are trying to help. These people are the parents of the students.…

Purpose: The purpose of this action research presentation is to invite discourse on the intersection of race, gender and instructional decisions in the classrooms of student teachers. The purpose of this study is to also examine the thoughts of a university supervisor during clinical observation with respect to her positionality as a woman of…

Self-regulated learning (SRL) researchers have paid relatively little attention to questions concerning (a) the level of experience and expertise required to create high-SRL environments, (b) how teachers acquire such expertise, and (c) how expert instruction needs to be to influence students' SRL positively. We agree with Randi and Corno (2000)…

The purpose of this study was to develop a theory for the relationship between primary school teachers' autonomy and collegiality and its impact on their professional development. In the first phase of the research, 39 teachers from 11 primary schools in Belgium were interviewed about autonomy, collegiality, and professional development. The…

This paper explores the connection between workplace relationships and teacher development. Drawing on the first year of a 2-year qualitative study of teacher socialization, the paper explores the questions: With whom do beginning teachers form relationships in their new professional contexts? What is the nature of these relationships? What…

Two different school districts' induction and evaluation methods were investigated to discover what specific methods help beginning teachers to learn more about teaching and how what they learn influences satisfaction with their work. One district had an induction program which used experienced teachers as full-time consultants to provide…

A report is given of findings from a study of beginning teachers' development of "knowledge-in-action," Schon's (1983) term for knowledge that is apparent in a professional's day-to-day actions. Participants were observed and interviewed frequently during their practice teaching placements. Transcripts of lessons and interviews were prepared for…

A pilot study focused on differences between novice and expert teachers, including the structure of teachers' thought processes and knowledge and teaching behavior during lessons. Study data were collected from seven secondary school mathematics teachers (three experts and four novices) through clinical interviews and lesson observation. Interview…

The Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools system, a large suburban school district, is in the process of developing a comprehensive teacher induction program for its new teachers. Training for new teachers takes place in the summer and after school, with teachers receiving a stipend for each 6-hour module completed. Feedback from teachers…

This two-page information review explores the controversy over the question of what beginning teachers must know to teach effectively and outlines a tentative definition of "essential knowledge" for first-year teachers. Eleven references are listed. (JD)

This survey of 45 school administrators sought to determine the factors they consider important in hiring beginning teachers, and those that are important in hiring experienced teachers. The questionnaires contained sixteen factors, identical for both experienced and inexperienced teachers, which the respondents rated according to the importance…

This article reports on the results of a survey of beginning teachers who were asked to evaluate their training for the profession in the light of their first year of actual experience. Eighteen teachers were observed and interviewed throughout their first year of teaching. Two themes emerged from their responses: a realization of the limits of…

The exploratory interview is one field method for studying how professionals write as part of their jobs that is also an effective device for preparing composition instructors to teach technical writing. This field research method is a loosely guided discussion in which the technical communicator ranges freely, widely, and in depth about personal…

The Eighth Annual Report on the characteristics of newly appointed certificated personnel in California Community Colleges for the academic year 1974-75 provides relevant data from 102 public and 6 private community colleges. The full-time staff of instructors, counselors, librarians, and administrators were reported as 15,834. 1,103 new full-time…

What do teachers know about what is happening in classrooms other than their own? Surprisingly little. And what they do know certainly is not from first hand observation. Discusses how beginning teachers can learn how experienced teachers conduct their classes thereby building their own teaching expertise. (Author/RK)