Download or read book Perceived Problems of Beginning Teachers and Proposed Solutions for Success written by Janet Forrester McCarra and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately 25% of beginning teachers leave the profession after the first year, and 50% have left by the end of their fifth years. The purpose of this study was to provide an opportunity for beginning teachers to identify and prioritize their problems and to state their solutions to those problems. Three research questions guided this study, which extended the research on perceived problems begun by Veenman and Ganser: (a) What are the perceived problems of beginning elementary education teachers?, (b) How do Veenman's (1984) ranked list and Ganser's (1999b) ranked list of 24 perceived problems compare with the problems identified in question one?, and (c) What are the beginning elementary education teachers' proposed solutions for success? The stratified random sampling technique was used to choose participants, who were beginning teachers who graduated from Mississippi State University (MSU) and Mississippi State University--Meridian Campus (MSU-M) during the years of 1996-2000. All but one of the 103 participants were female; 95 were Caucasians; six were African-Americans; one was a Native American; and one participant was classified as "other"? Seventy participants were graduates of MSU, and 33 were from MSU-M. This descriptive study included qualitative and quantitative research methods using questionnaires and interviews. A pilot study was conducted; however, the results were not used as part of the data for the main study. The top perceived problem was a sense of being overwhelmed. The second major problem was time, which included: (a) burden of clerical work, (b) heavy teaching load resulting in insufficient preparation time, and (c) taking up money and other morning activities. The third major problem was students' needs. Participants felt accountable for dealing with slow learners and for dealing with problems of individual students. Participants offered solutions primarily for improving teaching conditions and for making changes in teacher education programs. Recommendations included: (a) providing support systems for beginning teachers, such as mentors, (b) conducting studies of graduates each year to find strengths and weaknesses of the program, and (c) replicating this study in other Mississippi universities and in other states.
Download or read book Perceived Problems of Beginning Teachers and Proposed Solutions for Success written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Name: Janet Forrester McCarra Date of Degree: December 13, 2003 Institution: Mississippi State University Major Field: Elementary Education Major Professor: Dr. R. Dwight Hare Title of Study: PERCEIVED PROBLEMS OF BEGINNING TEACHERS AND PROPOSED SOLUTIONS FOR SUCCESS Pages in Study: 308 Candidate for Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Approximately 25% of beginning teachers leave the profession after the first year, and 50% have left by the end of their fifth years. The purpose of this study was to provide an opportunity for beginning teachers to identify and prioritize their problems and to state their solutions to those problems. Three research questions guided this study, which extended the research on perceived problems begun by Veenman and Ganser: (a) What are the perceived problems of beginning elementary education teachers?, (b) How do Veenman?s (1984) ranked list and Ganser?s (1999b) ranked list of 24 perceived problems compare with the problems identified in question one?, and (c) What are the beginning elementary education teachers?proposed solutions for success?. The stratified random sampling technique was used to choose participants, who were beginning teachers who graduated from Mississippi State University (MSU) and Mississippi State University?Meridian Campus (MSU-M) during the years of 1996-2000. All but one of the 103 participants were female; 95 were Caucasians; six were African-Americans; one was a Native American; and one participant was classified as?other? Seventy participants were graduates of MSU, and 33 were from MSU-M. This descriptive study included qualitative and quantitative research methods using questionnaires and interviews. A pilot study was conducted; however, the results were not used as part of the data for the main study. The top perceived problem was a sense of being overwhelmed. The second major problem was time, which included: (a) burden of clerical work, (b) heavy teaching load resulting in insufficient preparation time, and.
Download or read book Stories of Beginning Teachers written by Alysia D. Roehrig and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of Beginning Teachers offers insight into the challenges and triumphs of beginning teachers, presenting both research findings and case studies on the challenges faced by new teachers. More than twenty categories and five hundred specific examples of potential problems and issues are cited in Part 1 of this book. Armed with such useful information about the most frequent, serious, and persistent challenges, Roehrig, Pressley, and Talotta assert, a young educator will be better prepared to teach and more likely to succeed. Part 2 contains stories of the teaching experience of participants in the University of Notre Dame's Alliance for Catholic Education. Included are nine vivid stories of the struggles and successes of new teachers reflecting on their first year, as well as sixteen shorter summaries of the daily lives of beginning teachers. Reading this book, a novice teacher will better understand student motivation, student learning, human development, classroom organization, classroom management, assessment techniques, and the administration of schools.
Download or read book Perceived Problems of Beginning Teachers written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study of Perceived Problems of Beginning Teachers written by Paul R. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Perceived Problems and Concerns of Beginning Teachers written by Michelle D'Agostino and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Relationship Between Selected School Context and Support Variables and the Perceived Success and Satisfaction of Beginning Elementary Teachers written by Brenda Leigh Cain and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stories of Beginning Teachers written by Alysia D. Roehrig and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of Beginning Teachers offers insight into the challenges and triumphs of beginning teachers, presenting both research findings and case studies on the challenges faced by new teachers. More than twenty categories and five hundred specific examples of potential problems and issues are cited in Part 1 of this book. Armed with such useful information about the most frequent, serious, and persistent challenges, Roehrig, Pressley, and Talotta assert, a young educator will be better prepared to teach and more likely to succeed. Part 2 contains stories of the teaching experience of participants in the University of Notre Dame's Alliance for Catholic Education. Included are nine vivid stories of the struggles and successes of new teachers reflecting on their first year, as well as sixteen shorter summaries of the daily lives of beginning teachers. Reading this book, a novice teacher will better understand student motivation, student learning, human development, classroom organization, classroom management, assessment techniques, and the administration of schools.
Download or read book The Study of Beginning Teachers Perceived Problems with Classroom Management and Adult Relationships Throughout the First Year of Teaching written by Cynthia Ann Lundeen and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Finding Mrs Warnecke written by Cindi Rigsbee and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding Mrs. Warnecke tells the inspiring story of Cindi Rigsbee, a three-time Teacher of the Year, and Barbara Warnecke, the first-grade teacher who had a profound and lasting impact on Cindi's life. Cindi, an insecure child who craved positive attention, started her first-grade year with a teacher who was emotionally abusive and played favorites in the classroom. Two months into the school year, her principal came into the classroom and announced that half the students were being moved to another classroom--a dank, windowless basement room, with a young and inexperienced teacher. This change turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to Cindi. Her new teacher, Mrs. Warnecke, made learning come alive for her students. She went overboard caring for each child, made her classroom "magical," and encouraged students to pursue their dreams. Although Cindi was reluctant to explore her creativity as a student, Mrs. Warnecke encouraged her to read and write poetry, which became a lifelong passion. The two kept in touch for several years but lost track of each other when Mrs. Warnecke moved out of state. Cindi spent many years trying to reconnect so she could thank Mrs. Warnecke for making such a difference in her life, but to no avail. Eventually Cindi became a teacher herself, and thirty years later she has taught more than 2,000 children and been named Teacher of the Year for her home state. She later came to realize that all those years she wasn't really trying to track down Barbara Warnecke, but rather, she was trying to "find Mrs. Warnecke" within herself. In Fall 2008 Cindi and Barbara were reunited on Good Morning America; the show's producers had tracked Barbara down and brought both women on-set for a tearful reunion. Barbara was floored at this attention--she had no idea she could have made such an impact on a former student's life. As Cindi travels around talking with new and veteran educators, she is always approached by audience members who are moved to tears and want to share the story of the "Mrs. Warnecke" in their own lives. Finding Mrs. Warnecke not only tells the story of this teacher who made a lifelong impact on her students, it illustrates the importance of the teacher/student relationship in the classroom, and offers principles for other teachers to follow to make a positive impact in their own classrooms.
Download or read book Case Studies of Beginning Teachers written by Theodore J. Kowalski and published by Allyn & Bacon. This book was released on 1994 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 35 first-year teaching experiences bridges educational theory and practice to shed light on actual challenges new teachers often confront.
Download or read book Perceptions of the Problems of Beginning Teachers written by Lew Earle Williams and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beginning Teaching written by Sandy Schuck and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 offers a research-based account of beginning teachers’ experiences, told from their own perspectives and often in their own words. Beginning Teaching: Stories from the Classroom provides valuable source material to inform teacher education practices. The authors draw on more than 20 years of research on the professional learning, retention and attrition of beginning teachers to provide evocative illustrations of the challenges and successes that occur in the early years of teaching. The compelling and coherent narratives will appeal not only to student and graduate teachers but also to program designers, coaches and senior managers in schools. Above all, the book speaks to teacher educators in the hope that the experiences discussed here will suggest ways of supporting student teachers to grow and flourish once they launch their careers in the profession. These evocative stories express beginning teachers’ anguish and elation and also provide testimony to their resilience and perseverance in an altruistic profession. The analysis and interpretation of their stories will challenge and uplift; inspire and shame; give cause for celebration and melancholy; generate empathy and provoke introspection. Above all else, these stories call for change.
Download or read book WHOLE written by Rex Miller and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shocking statistic in education reveals that 70% of K-12 teachers work under chronic stress. This revolutionary new book explains how removing stress from the classroom holds the key to improving education. The book also explains what administrators, teachers, parents, and communities can do to help accomplish a stress-free classroom. For years, the expert voices said “disengagement” was the crucial issue behind poor educational environments and results. Naturally, only massive reform could fix it. But what if the enormous restructuring and expenditures attacked the wrong problem? MindShift, an organization that reframes tired and clogged conversations, pushed the old conclusions off the table and started fresh. They gathered diverse leaders in education, leadership, neuroscience, architecture, and wellness in working forums around the nation. These pivotal meetings produced WHOLE, a game-changing approach to education. This book captures the story and details of how the system can be remade for real and lasting benefits to everyone. With the authors’ expertise, the book exposes the exhausted and antiquated thinking that led to the present crisis. But, WHOLE also proposes a new era of disruptive change that can produce happier, healthier, and more successful education for the 21st century. The book introduces the outliers, tells the stories, and presents the roadmaps to: Why teachers should be seen as high-performance athletes, requiring time for recovery and preparation How schools can become “field hospitals,” combining learning with healing Why space matters, how redesigning and refurnishing schools can eliminate stress and produce learning environments that are more open and inviting Ways to properly integrate schools within communities, building honest relationships, increasing social capital, and achieving transparency that increases success Packed with real-life examples, new research, and solutions that you can introduce to your own schools, students, and communities, WHOLE shows us how to move schools from the age of stress and insecurity to an age of true educational flourishing.
Download or read book Ready for Anything written by Lynn F. Howard and published by Lead + Learn Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ready for Anything is a year-long, site-based professional development support model for new teachers. It includes ready-to-use forms and checklists for the busy administrator.
Download or read book The Needs of New Teachers written by Dustin Jay Bridges and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of beginning teachers from one southwestern North Carolina school district during the 2011-2012 school year. Research questions focused on teacher perceptions of elements related to job satisfaction/dissatisfaction and of methods of support given to beginning teachers. -- The mixed-methods approach was utilized, with surveys serving as the primary data source. Surveys were sent electronically to the district's 142 teachers in their first 3 years in the profession. The survey, adapted from Rhodes, Nevill, and Allan (2004), identified 28 elements and asked teachers to rate the extent to which they felt elements are important, pertaining to overall job satisfaction/dissatisfaction. Elements were later categorized by constructs based upon research by Patrick (2009): workplace atmosphere; administrative support; student behaviors; autonomy; and efficacy. Frequency responses showed that the top 10 ranked elements appeared in the constructs of workplace atmosphere and administrative support. Following the administration of surveys, individual teacher interviews were completed in order to validate teacher responses. Twelve out of 14 teachers interviewed stated that school/district level supports had led to their success. -- The data suggest that teachers feel that they receive strong administrative support in this school district, and in particular, credit the teacher mentor program for their perceptions of success. While all teachers interviewed stated that they planned to remain as a teacher in the district for the following school year, some frustrations of beginning teachers emerged: relationships with other teachers; issues with lesson planning/resources; and student discipline. The findings can be used by school districts to focus on professional development for beginning teachers or to help assess their own induction programs.
Download or read book How to Help Beginning Teachers Succeed written by Stephen P. Gordon and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This latest addition to ASCD's How-To series is designed to help school-based and district personnel assist beginning teachers. Nearly half of the nation's beginning teachers drop out of teaching within the first seven years. Gordon explores several of the struggles faced by beginning teachers and provides research-based plans for helping these newcomers make the most of their initial teaching years. Gordon proposes a Beginning Teacher Assistance Program (BTAP), which pairs beginners with mentors and a support team that can include school and district personnel as well as community representatives and members of higher education. These BTAPs, which needn't be expensive, have a proven track record for improving beginning teachers' skills, attitudes, and chances of fulfilling their potential as educators.
