Facing Challenges and Complexities in Retention of Novice Teachers

ISBN-13: 9781641132992 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 292 str.

Denise McCDonald

Opis

The chapters in the book present in-depth examination of novice teachers' experiences in Houston area schools during their first-through-third year of teaching. Their professional challenges and the unique conditions in which they must navigate their developing and sometimes fragile teacher identity are comprehensively explored.

Spis treści

• Preface.
• Situating Teacher Induction in the Urban Teaching Context: A Journey Through New Terrain as Novice Teachers’ Share Stories of Finding Their Way, Denise McDonald, Cheryl J. Craig, and Gayle Curtis.
• Walking With Fish, Swimming With Cats: Novice Teachers and Equity, Michele Kahn.
• “I Feel Like Edith Piaf”: A Novice Teacher’s Expression of Sorrow and Hope, Denise M. McDonald.
• Jekyll and Hyde: One Teacher—Two Schools, Jean Kiekel.
• Career Changers’ Experiences as Neophyte Middle School ESL Teachers, Kent Divoll, Leslie Gauna, and Angelica Ribeiro.
• Experiences From the Field: Voices of Novice Special Education Teachers During Their Induction Years, Bernardo Pohl.
• Becoming an Art Teacher: Prismatic Experiences of Three Beginning Visual Art Teachers, Carrie Markello.
• The Gordian Knot of Teacher Induction: When Context Trumps Teacher Preparation and the Desire to Teach, Cheryl J. Craig, Paige Evans, Jing Li, and Donna Stokes.
• Supporting New English Language Arts Teachers as Nascent Professionals: What Enables and Impedes Their Instructional Designs and Their Intentions to Help Secondary Students Succeed With the Curriculum and Required Assessments, Laura Turchi and Kristen Nance.
• Care as an Approach for Supporting Induction Years Secondary Mathematics Teachers, Jacqueline Sack and Judith Quander.
• Integrating Technology in the Classroom: Is It Happening? Xiao Han.
• When Qualifications are Not Enough: A Latina Spanish Bilingual Teacher’s Decision to Leave, Christine Beaudry and Leslie Gauna.
• Book Summary: A Big Picture View of Teacher Induction Experiences Across the Disciplines Helping Policy Makers See the Forest Through the Trees, Denise McDonald, Cheryl Craig and Gayle Curtis.