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Direct linkJana Baker – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In this mixed-methods explanatory sequential study, the researcher explored how primary teachers describe their experience with teacher autonomy and self-efficacy and examined how those two constructs relate to job satisfaction and to each other. Specifically, this study used K-2 novice and veteran teachers in public rural elementary schools in…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Self Efficacy, Job Satisfaction, Kindergarten
Milledge, William Andrew, Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this case study was to understand the perceptions of the mentoring program for the new teachers who work in South Central Alabama, according to the proteges who have gone through the program. This qualitative study, using the case study approach, focused on the effectiveness of the mentoring program in the South Central Alabama…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Kindergarten, Public Schools, Mentors
Rock, Marcia L.; Gregg, Madeleine; Gable, Robert A.; Zigmond, Naomi P. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2009
Virtual bug-in-the-ear technology presents one tool that allows practitioners and university educators to use to attract, prepare, and retain high-quality teachers. The experience of Project TEEACH--which stands for Transforming Elementary Educators into Advocates, Change Agents, and Highly Qualified Special Educators--based at the University of…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Change Agents, Special Education Teachers, Beginning Teachers
Download full textNational Council on Teacher Quality, 2011
For five years running, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) has tracked states' teacher policies, preparing a detailed and thorough compendium of teacher policy in the United States on topics related to teacher preparation, licensure, evaluation, career advancement, tenure, compensation, pensions and dismissal. The "2011 State…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers
National Council on Teacher Quality, 2009
This Alabama edition of the National Council on Teacher Quality's (NCTQ's) 2009 "State Teacher Policy Yearbook" is the third annual look at state policies impacting the teaching profession. It is hoped that this report will help focus attention on areas where state policymakers can make changes that will have a positive impact on teacher…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Education, Teacher Supply and Demand, Teacher Recruitment
Tompkins, Susie Powers – 1992
This book describes the experience of a young and inexperienced teacher during 1926 in rural Marengo County, Alabama. Susie Powers Tompkins accepted her first teaching assignment to earn money to continue college after her freshman year at Alabama College. However, for Tompkins the rewards of teaching went far beyond just earning money. She found…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Beginning Teachers, Educational History, Elementary Education
