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Comprehensive Teacher Induction in Five Countries: Implications for Supporting U.S. Science Teachers
This chapter presents a National Science Foundation-funded study of beginning science and mathematics teachers in five countries. The study looks at teacher induction systems that are more comprehensive than most in the United States. For example, th...
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A number of studies concerning the mentoring of beginning teachers and their induction process are found in recent educational publications. A review of this literature guides professional educators as they formulate and implement the work of educati...
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Induction Programs for Science Teachers: What the Research Says
Induction programs play a critical role in the development of professional educators. These programs support beginning teachers as their preservice ideology is challenged and as they experience constraints in working in a new school climate. While in...
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Needs Assessment for Beginning Teacher Assistance Programs
This chapter makes several general suggestions to teams charged with developing beginning teacher assistance programs (BTAPs), then describes four specific types of needs assessment carried out in effective BTPAs—environmental needs assessment, beg...
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A Systematic Approach to Support Teacher Retention and Renewal
Teacher retention and renewal are critical issues facing school districts across the United States, with the need for teacher retention at a time when school districts are also facing a need for teacher renewal. It is imperative that school districts...
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Mentoring and Coaching for Teachers of Science: Enhancing Professional Culture
Mentor programs provide an opportunity to foster a professional culture that focuses on improving the teaching, learning, and assessing of science as well as a means to retain highly qualified new and experienced teachers. This chapter outlines key s...
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Personal Histories Supporting Retention of Beginning Science Teachers
Beginning science teachers enter the classroom with an early professional role identity formed from life experiences in science, education, and volunteer/work settings. These experiences, along with teachers' values and beliefs, can support new scien...
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The Reemerging Cycle of Teacher Supply and Demand: North Carolina Takes Action
This chapter presents a brief history of teacher shortages, particularly in the fields of science and mathematics. It describes numerous efforts by North Carolina, not only in recruiting individuals into the teaching profession but also in retaining ...
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Congratulations! You have secured a position to teach the fascinating world of science to middle school students! Science to young adolescents!?!?...
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Perhaps the most important skill a good teacher should possess is the ability to control students. A teacher who can devise fascinating and unique lesson plans for her classroom is useless if she can't get the kids to sit down and listen to her inst...
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Using Your Community Resources
Within the field of education, it is important for communities to take an active role in developing relationships with the local schools and learning facilities. One good reason in particular is that children and adolescents need to feel that they a...
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Teaming is a method of grouping students so they share the same set of teachers for their core subject areas—science, math, language arts, social studies, and sometimes physical education and health. Most often, teams are created when an entire gr...
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Our lives are ones of uncertainty and surprise, yin and yang existences. Some things we can control and others we are powerless to command, even with the best intentions. Teachers are not exempt from emergencies, jury duty, and illness. Luckily, m...
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Front-page articles in science and education periodicals and journals give voice to the growing concern that scores on nationwide science exams have either declined or, at best, have had a minute increase even after several years of pushing for bette...
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Whether your assigned classroom is for science labs or there is a specific lab area shared among several teachers, you need to set up properly for group experiments and other hands-on activities. There are several ways to set up lab groups in various...