Beginning Teaching Stories from the Classroom
The experiences of the first years of new teachers’ professional lives are critical to their decisions about embracing or leaving the teaching profession. Writ large, these experiences have the potential to either underpin or undermine the growth and development of the teaching profession. This book...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2012, 2012
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2012 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- 1 Telling tales out of school: Sharing the stories of beginning teachers
- 2 The first months of teaching
- 3 The kids today: Alphabet generations in transition
- 4 The way we do things around here: School culture and socialisation
- 5 Teacher identity: A confidence trick?
- 6 Mentoring and induction: Nourishing or eating our young?
- 7 Professional challenges in the life of a new teacher
- 8 Teaching here and there: Substitute teaching
- 9 Butterfly brains and digital natives inhabiting schools in transition
- 10 Teacher professional standards: Induction, professional learning and certification
- 11 Lessons learnt from stories of beginning teachers