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Early career teachers are increasingly required to be ‘classroom ready’ upon graduation and to demonstrate capabilities that match their more experienced colleagues.
They are also joining a profession that is characterised by increased scrutiny and accountability driven by standards that seek to identify the hallmarks of good teaching.
This agenda, constructed around a discourse of ‘quality’, has created dilemmas for early career teachers.
However, little is known about how early career teachers navigate these pressures as they begin their careers.
This article reports on a study that sought high-achieving graduate teachers’ perceptions of teacher quality and how they assessed their own practices within a ‘quality’ framework.
The study found that high-achieving early career teachers wrestle with their perceptions of what a ‘good’ teacher might be and do, and how this contrasts with official representations of a ‘quality teacher’, and that they frequently ‘govern’ themselves using the regulations and discourses related to ‘the quality teacher’.
The authors argue that broader conceptualisations of teacher quality are needed to enable early career teachers to develop as agentic professionals.
Published: 2021
Updated: Mar. 14, 2022
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The purpose of the present study was to explore online mentoring experience from the perspectives of preservice teachers (PTs).
The methodology was qualitative.
35 randomly selected PTs were interviewed after the completion of an eight-week online school experience course.
Data obtained from focus group interviews were analyzed using pattern coding.
Overall, the PTs mostly had a positive online mentoring experience.
They reported receiving sufficient contextual and technological support when needed with limited professional support.
However, they expected their mentors to allocate more time and their university supervisors (USs) to control practicum schools and to provide more online teaching samples and guidelines.
They indicated that when they did not receive supports this was entirely due to the pandemic.
Published: 2021
Updated: Sep. 03, 2021
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To support student teachers' well-being and ensure that they flourish during teacher education, it is necessary to examine the relationship between student teachers and their mentors during field experiences.
Previous research has identified a connection between the quality of the mentor–mentee relationship and facets of student teachers' well-being.
However, to date, this link has been insufficiently corroborated using longitudinal empirical data.
This study aims to investigate the impact of mentor–mentee relationship quality on the well-being and flourishing of student teachers.
A cross-lagged panel design with two intervals (six weeks apart) was applied during a 15-week field experience with a sample of 125 German student teachers.
Well-being and flourishing were captured using the positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, achievement (PERMA) framework.
Relationship quality was assessed by adapting a questionnaire from the field of mentoring in medicine.
The study found that relationship quality at the outset significantly predicted all five PERMA dimensions at the end of the assessment period. The impact of relationship quality was especially strong on the dimensions of relationships (R) and meaning (M). Conversely, the PERMA dimensions (except achievement) did not significantly impact relationship quality.
Published: 2021
Updated: Jul. 14, 2021
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In this article, the author examines the challenges faced by American schooling and the reasons for persistent failure of American school reforms to achieve successful educational outcomes at scale. He concludes that many of the problems faced by American schools are derived from trying to solve a problem that requires professional skill and expertise by using bureaucratic levers of requirements and regulations. The author advances a sectoral perspective on education reform, exploring how this shift in thinking could help education stakeholders produce quality practice across the US.
Published: 2013
Updated: Jun. 29, 2015
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This study examines the effects of having longer and better quality student teaching on a variety of outcomes. The findings indicate that the duration of student teaching has little effect on teacher outcomes. However, this study finds that the quality of student teaching has significant and positive effects. Prospective teachers who report better quality student teaching experiences feel more prepared to teach, more efficacious, and plan more years in teaching and in the district than peers who report lower quality experiences.
Published: 2012
Updated: Nov. 19, 2014
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This study investigated the relationship between teachers’ beliefs about quality questions and their questioning behaviours in terms of questioning purposes, content focus, students’ cognitive level, wording and syntax. Findings show that although there was a general congruence between teachers’ beliefs and practices, there were discrepancies between what the teachers believed and what they actually did in the class with respect to the four specified features.
Published: 2013
Updated: Sep. 22, 2014
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In this evaluation, quality indicators were used to determine whether video analysis is an evidence-based practice for developing special education pre-service and in-service teachers. Significant findings supported video analysis across all seven studies, and the overall quality of the published research suggests video analysis is a promising practice.
Published: 2013
Updated: Apr. 13, 2014
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This article seeks to explore teacher education quality in terms of effectiveness among various countries. This study shows that future teachers report that they benefit from both academic and school-based instructors in every participating country. Data indicate that United States have well-organized programs and the most synchronized teaching in TEPs at both the lower secondary and primary levels.
Published: 2011
Updated: Feb. 18, 2013
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The current article takes up the issue of quality teacher preparation by exploring several pivotal questions: What might quality teaching mean in a global context? What should globally competent teachers know and be able to do? What are some of the issues, dilemmas, barriers, or structures that seem to interfere with teacher education reform and hinder movement towards internationalization in teacher preparation? The discussion is framed by five knowledge domains for teaching and articulates how these domains could support quality teaching in a global context.
Published: 2010
Updated: Oct. 12, 2010
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The purpose of this article is to examine potential challenges to the institutions of higher education that offer early childhood teacher education programs as the enrollment of early childhood students increases. Challenges related to both the needs of the institutions as well as the needs of the students are addressed. The successful utilization of online courses is explored as one solution to meeting some of the challenges. Recommendations are summarized for policy makers, institutions of higher education, teacher education programs, and faculty.
Published: 2010
Updated: Aug. 31, 2010