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Courtney Gatti – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This document introduces a research study that aimed to gain insight into the perspectives of newly qualified teachers, mentor teachers, and administrators during their participation in a technology-enhanced teacher induction program while assigned within a rural school district in southeastern Colorado. The qualitative case study took a deeper…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Electronic Learning, Beginning Teacher Induction, Administrators
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Valtierra, Kristina M. – AILACTE Journal, 2022
This article shares innovative practices from a workshop series called Teach and Thrive Learning Circles (TTLCs) offered to pre-service and recent graduates from the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program at Colorado College (CC). TTLCs aim to proactively prime pre-service and early career teachers to navigate the pressures that can contribute…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Masters Programs, Teacher Education Programs, Workshops
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Spieker, Matthew H. – Research and Issues in Music Education, 2017
The purpose of this study was to compare the use of figurative language between master and novice instrumental music teachers and to investigate their attitudes toward figurative language as a teaching tool. Figurative language is defined as any creative verbal instruction intended to teach a concept. Sixteen (N = 16) secondary school,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Beginning Teachers, Experienced Teachers, Figurative Language
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Kizil, Ruhan Circi; Briggs, Derek; Seidel, Kent; Green, Kathy – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2014
The evidence that teacher preparation programs have an impact on teacher quality is often limited. Progress in research on this topic will remain rather limited in its influence on practice until more proximal measures of teacher education outcomes can be established. The dearth of variables to measure the impact of teacher preparation programs on…
Descriptors: Teacher Competencies, Teacher Education Programs, Educational Quality, Educational Research
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Bishop, Anne G.; Brownell, Mary T.; Klingner, Janette K.; Leko, Melinda M.; Galman, Sally A. C. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2010
Little research exists to help us understand why some beginning special education teachers of reading engage in more effective classroom practices than others. Factors that may influence these differences include personal attributes, preparation, and school environment. This mixed-methods study examined beginning special education teachers (N =…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Beginning Teachers, Reading Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
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Killion, Joellen P. – Journal of Staff Development, 1990
A description is given of a mentor-protege program which promoted growth, recognition, experience-enhancing roles, and collegiality for mid- to late-career teachers who served as mentors. (Author/IAH)
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers, Collegiality, Elementary Secondary Education
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Wayman, Jeffrey C.; Foster, Ann M.; Mantle-Bromley, Corinne; Wilson, Carol Ann – High School Journal, 2003
In large urban school districts across the country, shortages of teachers who are qualified for and interested in working in critical content areas are reality. Alternative licensing routes, broadly defined as licensure programs not requiring traditional university teacher preparation work, are increasing in number and a variety of structures.…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Alternative Teacher Certification, Teacher Attitudes, Traditional Schools