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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Early Career Teachers"”.
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Cultivating Early Career Teachers’ Purpose: A Mechanism to Sustain Early Career Teachers’ Commitment to the Profession
<p>The attrition rate of early career teachers is high. In fact, the government spends $2 billion annually to replace teachers in the first five years of their tenure (Alliance for Excellent Education, 2005). The purpose of this dissertation is two-fold: 1) to test the relationship between purpose, …
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The urban classroom : views and lived experiences of early-career teachers
… inquiry, this study explored the views of urban teachers’ experiences teaching in an urban classroom. The main question this study sought to examine was: How did recently certified teachers placed in an urban setting view their early-career experiences? This study focused on lived experiences of …
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Identity Formation and the Development of Self in Early Career Teachers
… is often neglected and overlooked as we prepare teachers and sustain teachers in their work. The personal beliefs, attitudes and emotions of teachers often determine the decisions that teachers make in their classrooms. Increasingly, educational researchers have found that effective teachers are …
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Exploring the resilience of early career teachers: engaging positively with the realities
… the perceptions of resilience of more than fifty early career secondary teachers and is intended as the initial stage of a longitudinal research inquiry. It focuses on how the resilience of new entrants to the teaching profession is challenged and eroded, but also sustained and nurtured, in the …
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Using Lesson Study as collaborative professional development for high performing Early Career Teachers
… development for high performing primary Early Career teachers With the recruitment and retention of teachers in crisis and growing numbers leaving the profession within the first five years, this dissertation looks at ways in which to help early career teachers (ECTs) cultivate their …
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Investigating the Practices in Teacher Education that Promote and Inhibit Technology Integration in Early Career Teachers
… integration knowledge and skills in preservice teachers, studies have attempted to identify effective instructional technology integration practices on the part of the teacher education program, as well as exemplary programs themselves (Hofer, 2005; Mergendoller et al., 1994; Strudler & Wetzler, …
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To explore outstanding teaching potential in early career teachers on their personal and professional journey to becoming newly qualified teachers
… and professional journey of six outstanding early career teachers. Aspects which will be investigated include the ITT pre-selection procedure, an examination of the university based training programme, the contextual features of the trainees' school experience and the participants’ own …
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Early career teachers’ preparedness to teach: from initial teacher training through early career induction in England – an educational professional perspective
The research focused on the preparedness of Early Career Teachers (ECTs), as previous studies on initial teacher training (ITT) policy in England identified several areas of pedagogy where ECTs felt insufficiently prepared. Viewed through a subjective lens, the study explored the perspectives of …
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Balancing the pendulum : a single case study of early-career teachers’ perspectives on the influence of preservice education self-efficacy in teaching literacy in New York.
Teachers often leave their preservice programs without the skills to deliver effective, evidence-based literacy instruction (Tortorelli et al., 2021). A review conducted by the National Council on Teacher Quality of 702 teacher preparation programs found that only 28% of teacher education programs …
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Educator preparation reform: an investigation of the Educative Teacher Performance Assessment (EDTPA®) as a measure of readiness to teach
… whether a relationship existed between early-career teachers’ performance on the Educative Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA) as a measure for improving readiness to teach and their Level of Effectiveness (LOE) score once they begin teaching, and to investigate perceptions of …
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An Examination of Instructional Coaching and Teacher Retention: A Case Study
… have sought to curtail the number of teachers exiting the field each year, districts continue to lose high-quality teachers at an increasingly staggering rate. Interventions notwithstanding, nearly 30% of early career teachers leave the field after solely one year in the classroom. …
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Supporting early career teacher mentors in primary and secondary education: developing a context specific coaching training programme
Statutory induction for newly qualified teachers (NQTs) was introduced in England in 1999 (DfEE, 1999) as a bridge from initial teacher training to a professional career in teaching. In 2021, the statutory Early Career Framework (ECF) superseded the NQT induction programme which represents a …
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Becoming an Effective Digital Educator: A Case Study of Technology Preparation in a Novel Preservice Teacher Internship Program
… It also aimed to understand how former intern teachers felt the entire preparation program equipped them for technology-rich instruction during their first year of full-time teaching. Internship program documents and lesson plans were analyzed, and early career teachers, mentor teachers, school …
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Finding the fit : measurement and assessment of drivers of teacher mobility and attrition
… Follow-up Survey and the Michigan-Indiana Early Career Teacher Study), I explore how teachers' perceptions of "fitting in" with organizational goals and values, job requirements, and close professional colleagues impact teacher mobility. I create a series of multinomial logistic regression …
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Exploring coach-mediated reflection : developing an early-career chemistry teacher's pedagogical content knowledge.
Many science teachers leave the teaching profession during the first five years of practice resulting in a "greening" of the population. This phenomenon produces a high concentration of early-career teachers with low levels of pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). PCK is the ultimate measure for …
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Early-career agricultural science teachers’ preparation, practice, and perceptions of instructional methods
The purpose of this study was to determine early career teachers’ preparation in, use of, and perceptions of various instructional methods in agricultural education. Training received in instructional methods, time spent using instructional methods, confidence using instructional methods, and …
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Examining Teachers’ Perceptions of Preparedness to Teach in Low-Income Schools Upon Completing a Master of Arts in Teaching Degree
… interviews to examine perceptions of early career teachers who completed a Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) preparation program in a midwestern U.S. urban, low-income setting. These MAT EPP program completers described their views of their preparation program, including the EPP’s …
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The influence of teaching environment on music teacher self-efficacy perceptions
… study was to examine the experiences of music teachers who teach or have taught in environments outside their personal backgrounds in order to understand how working in environments dissimilar from their personal backgrounds might influence feelings of teacher self-efficacy. The constituent …
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Influencing new teacher retention : a qualitative single case study on K–12 teachers' experiences in their first five years of teaching.
… that influence new teacher retention among K–12 teachers who have remained in their current position throughout their first five years of teaching. The problem this study addressed was the high attrition rates among early-career teachers, which have detrimental effects on the stability and …
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Classroom Teachers: Why the Mass Exodus?
… sought to explore the perceptions of first-year teachers on the effectiveness of instructional support and the impact those supports had on their decision to remain in the classroom the following year. The study compared the various kinds of instructional support to the eight school organization …
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