Search results for: Attitudes of teachers

This study aimed to understand how new teachers experienced and perceived mentored induction and understand what aspects facilitated or impeded their learning. The participants were eight new teachers selected from two high-poverty, low performing Pre-K through eighth-grade schools in a metropolitan Midwestern public school system. The results indicate that new teachers found coaching to be a source of support and a resource for learning, and the new teacher were returning the following year and stated that they looked forward to continued work with their coaches. This study highlights that though emotional support and direct advice is appreciated, new teachers valued instructionally oriented, collaborative educative coaching.

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between preservice teachers’ perceived knowledge, as represented by the TPACK framework, and self-efficacy beliefs about their ability to successfully use technology in the classroom. The TPACK framework provides a valuable structure for teacher preparation and the ways that technology creates new dynamics in the teaching and learning process. This study has demonstrated the nature of this relationship in a specific context as a dynamic and evolving connection between preservice teachers’ knowledge and self-efficacy beliefs about technology integration.

The current study examines early childhood preservice teachers' beliefs about the importance of music in early childhood. The paper also explores factors that influencing those beliefs. The findings reveal that preservice teachers in this study held relatively strong beliefs about the importance of music, including aesthetic, quality-of-life, and social-emotional benefits. Preservice teachers' beliefs were associated with whether they viewed music as an active tool for development and learning, or as merely an enrichment.

This article describes a multi-layered series of reflection processes which were developed by the authors, a lecturer and a school teacher, worked together in a collaborative action research project. The authors conclude that they have identified that key characteristics were collaboration discussions, stimulation from action research literature and the crucial role of the practitioner in developing knowledge.