Urban school teacher turnover in the United States has been a critical issue receiving increasing attention of teacher educators, school administrators and policy makers nationwide. To meet the demand of highly qualified urban school teachers, an urban immersion teacher preparation (UITP) program has emerged that employs the Professional Development School model and is designed to prepare prospective urban school teachers through an alternative teacher certification route. This book, using Bandura s social cognitive theory of self-efficacy as the conceptual framework in the process of data...