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de Courcy, Michele; Adoniou, Misty; Ngoc, Doan Ba – TESOL in Context, 2014
With the development of the English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) Teacher Resource, the educational needs and outcomes of refugee and immigrant children have been placed on the national mainstream teaching agenda. This new national resource sits alongside a plethora of other resources, known as scales and standards, which have been…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Interviews, Surveys
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Adoniou, Misty – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2015
This article describes the challenges beginning teachers face in schooling contexts that have become increasingly subject to direct political intervention. To tell the story it focuses on the experiences of five teachers in their first year of teaching in an urban jurisdiction in Australia, examining the ways in which they taught literacy, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Policy
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Adoniou, Misty – Teacher Development, 2016
This article reports findings from a study of 14 beginning teachers in their first year of teaching in primary schools. By the end of the first year, half were reconsidering their long-term commitment to teaching. The study found they were considering leaving because they were struggling to be the teachers they had envisaged being. One reason for…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, School Support, Alignment (Education), Mentors
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Adoniou, Misty – School Leadership & Management, 2016
National education reform agendas are increasingly prevalent in school systems around the world. Whilst we have a substantial body of research exploring the ways in which schools manage change agendas, there is less discussion of the impacts these agendas may have on beginning teachers and their retention in the profession. Here I report on a…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Teacher Response, Educational Change, National Standards
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Adoniou, Misty – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2013
Everybody wants quality teachers in schools. How are such teachers developed? In this article a model is presented that describes four contexts crucial to the preparation of teachers: the personal, the university, the practicum and the employment contexts. The ways in which these different contexts can and should work together in the education and…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Alignment (Education), Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Effectiveness