,,,,Lessons Learned: New Teachers Talk About Their Jobs, Challenges and Long-Range Plans

Lessons Learned: New Teachers Talk About Their Jobs, Challenges and Long-Range Plans


 

Publication Date: January 2007

Publisher: Public Agenda Foundation; National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality

Author(s): Jean Johnson; John Doble; John Immerwahr; Amber Ott; Jonathan Rochkind

Research Area: Education

Keywords: High School; Middle School; First-year teachers

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Abstract:

This new report by Public Agenda and the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality finds new teachers in middle and high school feel most vulnerable to challenging teaching conditions. Compared to new teachers in elementary schools, high school and middle school teachers are much more concerned about administrative support, more frustrated by student motivation and behavior, less likely to see teaching as a lifelong career choice and less likely to believe that all students can achieve in school than new teachers in elementary schools. Questionnaire design and analysis in cooperation with REL-Midwest.