Not exact matches
The author has followed some of urban America's poorest young people through their
secondary school
careers over some years, tracking their rocky road towards higher education and revealing how their
teachers are compensating for the missing investment in their
early years by fostering what Tough sums up as «character».
The report, Out - of - field teaching in Australian
secondary schools, also paints a worrying picture in relation to
early career classroom practitioners — 37 per cent of Year 7 - 10
teachers with one - to - two years» experience in the profession are teaching outside their specialisation, compared to 25 per cent who've been in the job for more than five years.
In a national survey of public schools, the National Comprehensive Center for
Teacher Quality and Public Agenda (2007) found that if given a choice between two otherwise identical schools, 76 percent of
secondary teachers and 81 percent of elementary
teachers early in their
careers would rather be at a school in which administrators strongly supported
teachers than at a school that paid significantly higher salaries.
«Only forty - eight per cent of England's
secondary classroom
teachers have completed 10 years in teaching, and a worryingly high number of
teachers are leaving the profession very
early on in their
careers,» she said.
Even though I was a
secondary school
teacher, a long time ago, I also went into business development very
early on in my
career.
His research group has recently received National Science Foundation funding for a five - year project to develop and study a system of tools and tool - based practices for
early career and pre-service
secondary science
teachers that support transitions from novice to expert - like pedagogical reasoning and practice.
For example, one research action cluster focused on improving
teacher retention rates in
early -
career secondary math
teachers.