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Book Synopsis Selected Perceptions of Second Career Novice Teachers by :
Download or read book Selected Perceptions of Second Career Novice Teachers written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this qualitative study was to gain insight into the perceptions that second career novice teachers have about their preservice training and their preparedness for taking on the challenges of teaching during their first semester as "real" teachers. Through an increased understanding of novice teachers' perceptions and experiences, teacher educators may be better equipped to structure preservice learning that is both relevant and meaningful for teacher education candidates. Four second career novice teachers were involved in this study that spanned the first semester of teaching after their graduation from a fifteen-month alternative program. Qualitative methods of data collection included individual interviews, journal entries, and paired interviews. Constant comparative and analytic induction designs were used for the analysis of data collected in this research study. Research questions addressed included: 1) Why did these second career novice teachers choose to change directions in their career paths and pursue teaching? 2) What experiences did they find were the most beneficial (or most obstructive) in preparing them to become teachers? 3) What challenges did they face in their first six months of teaching? 4) In what ways did they learn to define themselves as teachers? 5) What can be learned from this research that will inform the way potential teachers are recruited and trained? Findings from the data analysis revealed the following similarities across participants: 1) Teaching was selected as a career choice because participants wanted to "make a difference" in other people's lives. 2) Prior life and work experiences positively impacted the ability of participants to transition into teaching as a career. 3) Challenges in their first six months of teaching included working conditions, mentoring, and preconceptions versus the realities of teaching. 4) Novice teachers moved rapidly toward teacher identity and in identifying teaching concerns from self to task and impact. 5) Implications for teacher education programs include choosing appropriate grade-level placements for interns, establishing mentoring relationships with cooperating teachers, and creating a forum for ongoing dialogue among teacher educators, novice teachers, and school system administrators and teachers.
Book Synopsis Selected Perceptions of Second Career Novice Teachers by : Lucy Maples
Download or read book Selected Perceptions of Second Career Novice Teachers written by Lucy Maples and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schools in America employ more K-12 teachers than hospitals and universities combined employ registered nurses, doctors, and professors (US Bureau of Census, 1998, in Ingersoll & Smith, 2003). This points to the critical importance of teachers in American society. Since American children of today are required to attend school from age 7 through 17 (US Dept of Education, 1997), this dramatically increases the segment of the population directly comprising our education system. Addressing problems connected to such a large proportion of our society should constitute a national priority. Identifying and solving these problems require a multiplicity of studies and efforts, including the incorporation of novice teachers into the system. This study seeks to identify some of the factors contributing to the success of novice teachers in the classroom. In particular, this study documents and analyzes the perceptions of second career novice teachers, especially how novice teachers see themselves becoming a part of the culture of the teaching profession and, more specifically, of their own schools and individual classrooms.
Book Synopsis Second Career Teachers' Perceptions of Their Profession by : Rebecca L. Wiehe
Download or read book Second Career Teachers' Perceptions of Their Profession written by Rebecca L. Wiehe and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of career choice of second career teachers currently in at least their fifth year of work in the classroom and the factors that influence these perceptions. Seven second career teachers, all in their fifth year or more of teaching, were the participants in the study. Each participant had an original degree in an area other than education and worked in a first career other than teaching for five or more years. The second career teachers in this study participated in three interviews, each 60-90 minutes in length, over a 10-month period of time. For a minimum time period of 6 weeks, each participant also kept a critical incident log in which he or she recorded experiences that caused him or her to reflect either positively or negatively on his or her decision to become a teacher. These experiences were then further discussed during the interviews. Transcripts from the interviews were reviewed and coded for themes across participants. Results showed that all of the second career teachers in the study perceived themselves as successful and satisfied in their new profession despite the challenges they identified, such as unsupportive administrators and challenging students. Due to their perceived success and satisfaction as teachers, all of the participants believed that they made the right decision to choose teaching as a second career. Commonalities were identified across the participants in this study with respect to the factors that keep them teaching, such as their perceived positive impact on the lives of their students, as well as those factors that could cause them to exit the teaching profession, such as an opportunity to specialize in a specific area of education. Both differences and similarities were identified in the perceptions of elementary school versus secondary school participants with the most notable difference that the secondary level teachers perceived their greatest challenge as their relationship with their administrators, and elementary level teachers saw their greatest challenge as the requirements associated with teaching special education students.
Book Synopsis A Comparison of the Perceptions Between Novice and Veteran Teachers About the Teaching Profession in Elementary and Middle Schools in Sevier County, Tennessee by :
Download or read book A Comparison of the Perceptions Between Novice and Veteran Teachers About the Teaching Profession in Elementary and Middle Schools in Sevier County, Tennessee written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teachers all over the country are leaving the profession at an alarming rate and by understanding the attitudes and perceptions of both first- and second-career teachers as well as novice and veteran teachers on various areas of teaching, we can begin to identify better and more specific ways to mentor and support all teachers regardless of their age, stage, and life experiences when they enter the profession. The population of the study was limited to 677 kindergarten- through eighth-grade teachers in Sevier County, Tennessee. The study revealed that whether a teacher is novice, veteran, first-career, or second-career, there is no difference in their perceptions concerning the teaching career, no difference in their perceptions regarding the various aspects and challenges of teaching and no difference in their perceptions of how teachers are perceived by colleagues. One difference was found, indicating that novice and veteran teachers have a different perception of their mentoring experiences, with novice teachers rating their mentoring experiences as more positive than veteran teachers. The majority of teachers participating in the study was happy with their chosen career and would encourage others to enter the field. Findings indicated they shared ideas with colleagues and were willing to share in return. Most said that they felt they made a difference in their students lives. Student behavior and time were issues of concern to the teachers in the study. Some teachers pointed out that they sometimes were not able to teach because of a student's behavior and that recent problems in society and at home have made this issue worse. Some said the paperwork associated with teaching was overwhelming, and they had difficulty completing the necessary tasks outside of instruction within a normal school day. In spite of the problems, the majority of educators said they would do it all over again.
Author :Allan A. Glatthorn Publisher :Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development ISBN 13 :9780871202758 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (27 download)
Book Synopsis Differentiated Supervision by : Allan A. Glatthorn
Download or read book Differentiated Supervision written by Allan A. Glatthorn and published by Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Differentiated supervision is an approach to supervision that provides teachers with options about the kinds of supervisory and evaluative services they receive. The differentiated model provides intensive development to nontenured teachers and to tenured teachers with serious problems. The rest of the faculty receive options for fostering their professional development, working in collaborative teams or opting for a self-directed approach. This book describes a model of differentiated supervision and offers suggestions for its implementation. Chapter 1 presents a rationale for differentiated supervision and briefly describes its components. Chapter 2 explains the foundation elements needed by all teachers to make the model work effectively. The third chapter describes processes for fostering the learning-centered classroom, with a focus on learning outcomes. Chapters 4 through 6 explain how each of the following developmental options works: providing intensive development; fostering cooperative professional development; and facilitating self-directed development. The seventh chapter focuses on the evaluative options in a differentiated system, which distinguishes between two types of evaluation--intensive evaluation and standard evaluation. The final chapter offers suggestions for developing local models appropriate to an individual district's needs and resources. Contains 11 figures and an appendix listing schools using the differentiated model. References accompany each chapter. (LMI)
Book Synopsis Career Change Teachers by : Meera Varadharajan
Download or read book Career Change Teachers written by Meera Varadharajan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Past, Present, and Future Research on Teacher Induction by : Jian Wang
Download or read book Past, Present, and Future Research on Teacher Induction written by Jian Wang and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology on teacher induction research is intended for researchers, policy makers, and practitioners in the field of teacher induction both nationally and internationally. This book is the final and major project of the Association of Teacher Educators' (ATE) Commission on Teacher Induction and Mentoring. Its importance is derived from three sources: (1) careful conceptualization of teacher induction from historical, methodological, and international perspectives; (2) systematic reviews of research literature relevant to various aspects of teacher induction including its social, cultural, and political contexts, program components and forms, and the range of its effects; (3) substantial empirical studies on the important issues of teacher induction with different kinds of methodologies that exemplify future directions and approaches to the research in teacher induction. The content of the book has direct implications for ATE's membership since part of the ATE mission is to provide opportunities for personal and professional growth of the Association membership whether members are researchers, policy makers, or practitioners in teacher learning and/or teacher induction.
Book Synopsis Novice Second-career Teachers by : Paula Dennisse Núñoz del Rosario
Download or read book Novice Second-career Teachers written by Paula Dennisse Núñoz del Rosario and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world we live in is in constant change. During change, people focus on the observable part of what is not there anymore and what has come in its place, not being conscious of the adaptation process that underlies the change: the transition. The transition is a process that has different phases and the development of the process is differentiated depending on the individual. Transition is also directly related to the type of experience. Although circumstances differ among individuals, it is possible to say that there are some common aspects in terms of challenges faced by all novice teachers, both first-year teachers, and second-career teachers. These challenges were summarized in four categories: personal; curriculum, instruction, and assessment; relationships; and unsupportive environments. Each of them has a significant effect on teachers' success during their first years. This study is a multiple case study of the transition process that Dominican second-career teachers in K-5 classrooms undergo when changing to the teaching career. After analyzing data from semi-structured interviews, Stimulated Recalled Interviews (SRI), observations, and journals from the participants, an in-depth description of these professionals, their journey, and their meaning-making process was described. As evidenced by the data collected, making meaning processes and transitions varies among individuals, supported by their previous experience. The process of reflecting on the teaching practice and analyzing situations helped the participants become conscious of their meaning-making process. Understanding the personal, emotional, and professional implications of the transition into teaching of these second-career teachers should be considered in the professional preparation of this group of professionals. The particularities of the meaning-making process pose a challenge for how to support this minority group professionally. Nevertheless, findings show the need to differentiate and personalize the career support and training for second-career teachers.
Book Synopsis Connecting Leadership and Learning by : John MacBeath
Download or read book Connecting Leadership and Learning written by John MacBeath and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-07-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading schools is becoming almost daily a more complex and demanding job. Connecting Leadership and Learning reassesses the purpose of schools, the nature of learning and the qualities of leadership that make schools authentic places of learning. Starting with a review of what we can claim to know – and not know – about learning, leadership and their inter-relationship, this book explores what it means to lead schools that place learning at the centre. Drawing on research from seven different country projects - including the United States, Australia and five European countries – the authors offer five key principles for practice: a focus of learning an environment for learning a learning dialogue shared leadership accountability; internal and external. These key principles have been tested by teachers, senior leaders and school students and found to be applicable across cultural and linguistic boundaries. The challenges faced by in inner city schools, whether in London or New Jersey, prove a stern test for the five principles yet, as these schools testify, they bring a new sense of hope and resolve that learning is for everyone. Based on rigorous research yet thoroughly grounded in practice, this book aims to challenge the reader with big ideas about learning and leadership, and to break new ground in thinking about where leadership and learning meet so that practitioners can see how it works in school and classroom practice. It should be of interest to all school leaders and those aspiring to the role.
Book Synopsis Factors Affecting Instructional Leaders Perception towards Educational Media Utilization in Classroom Teaching by : Getnet Eshetu
Download or read book Factors Affecting Instructional Leaders Perception towards Educational Media Utilization in Classroom Teaching written by Getnet Eshetu and published by diplom.de. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solution at Hand to Improve Quality presents the materials necessary for understanding problems and solutions to integrate educational media technology in classroom teaching by exploring factors that affect the perceptions of instructional leaders. A considerable portion of the Solution at Hand to Improve Quality describes the roles of media in improving the quality of teaching-learning process and the roles of different actors. It focuses in identifying the instructional leaders tendency to favor on supplementary or/and substitutive roles of media for classroom teaching in relation to their past training as well as experience. Solution at Hand to Improve Quality also pointed out the reasons behind for instructional leaders’ perception and detailed solutions for the existing problems. Finally, Solution at Hand to Improve Quality presents practical recommendations for curriculum developers, education officials, teachers’ educators, educational media experts, instructional leaders and even to teachers.
Book Synopsis The Social Neuroscience of Education by : Louis J. Cozolino
Download or read book The Social Neuroscience of Education written by Louis J. Cozolino and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating a healthy, social classroom environment.
Book Synopsis A Study of Professional Role Perceptions Held by Two Selected Groups of Vocational-agriculture Teachers in Michigan by : Larry D. Powers
Download or read book A Study of Professional Role Perceptions Held by Two Selected Groups of Vocational-agriculture Teachers in Michigan written by Larry D. Powers and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Handbook of Research on Science Teacher Education by : Julie A. Luft
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Science Teacher Education written by Julie A. Luft and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking handbook offers a contemporary and thorough review of research relating directly to the preparation, induction, and career long professional learning of K–12 science teachers. Through critical and concise chapters, this volume provides essential insights into science teacher education that range from their learning as individuals to the programs that cultivate their knowledge and practices. Each chapter is a current review of research that depicts the area, and then points to empirically based conclusions or suggestions for science teacher educators or educational researchers. Issues associated with equity are embedded within each chapter. Drawing on the work of over one hundred contributors from across the globe, this handbook has 35 chapters that cover established, emergent, diverse, and pioneering areas of research, including: Research methods and methodologies in science teacher education, including discussions of the purpose of science teacher education research and equitable perspectives; Formal and informal teacher education programs that span from early childhood educators to the complexity of preparation, to the role of informal settings such as museums; Continuous professional learning of science teachers that supports building cultural responsiveness and teacher leadership; Core topics in science teacher education that focus on teacher knowledge, educative curricula, and working with all students; and Emerging areas in science teacher education such as STEM education, global education, and identity development. This comprehensive, in-depth text will be central to the work of science teacher educators, researchers in the field of science education, and all those who work closely with science teachers.
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Flexible Automation by : Charles Edquist
Download or read book Flexible Automation written by Charles Edquist and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1988 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book School To Work written by David Stern and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth investigation into career-related programmes in American secondary schools and two-year further education colleges is given in this book. In addition to reviewing evidence on the effectiveness of vocational coursework, the authors analyse programmes involving students who study and work simultaneously, including co-operative education, youth apprenticeship and school-based enterprise.; Chapters deal with the problems encountered in the school-to-work transition: the preparation necessary not only for this transition but for changes encountered when jobs end abruptly, and issues covered include combining school-based and work-based learning and teaching and linking secondary with post- secondary education. Research on programmes involving students simultaneously working and at school, including non-school-supervised employment is also covered, as is co-operative education, which places students in jobs related to their fields of study. The traditional elements of post-school education and training are discussed together with an investigation into newer approaches including career academics and career magnet schools and programmes bridging secondary and post secondary education. Additionally, selected studies of programmes for out- of-school youth are reviewed.; To conclude, the authors consider new school-to-work systems and whether specially designed programmes for the "non-college-bound" students would be stigmatised as second best, or if an alternative programme could maintain an option for students to attend four year colleges and universities, the latter making the design and operation of school-to-work systems more difficult. Of interest to administrators, teachers, policy makers, analysts and employers, the findings in this book will shed light on the viability of new school-to- work initiatives currently being implemented in the UK, Europe and USA.
Book Synopsis The First Five Years of Teaching by : John McArthur
Download or read book The First Five Years of Teaching written by John McArthur and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report deals with the follow-up stage of a longitudinal study which examined socialization into teaching as reflected by teachers' attitudes towards the control of students. Preservice secondary school teachers were observed in their final year of training, and, in 1978, this "five years later" follow-up was conducted, investigating over half of the original sample. It was found that the initial year of teaching experience is clearly the most traumatic, and that the subsequent years tended to see a leveling out of attitudes towards students and teaching and an internalization of occupational values. This report provides information on: (1) the sample of beginning secondary school teachers; (2) career patterns of respondents to the 1978 survey; (3) use of student control ideology as an index of socialization into the occupation of teaching; (4) cross-sectional analyses of responses to the 1978 survey; (5) longitudinal analysis of responses from members of the 1978 sample who taught from 1973-1978 and comparisons with 1978 non-teaching group; and (6) a summary of followup interviews conducted (during 1979) with both teaching and non-teaching members of the 1978 sample. The research questionnaire, a bibliography, and several tables are included. (CJB)
