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Tsang, Kwok Kuen – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2018
Teachers' negative emotions began to receive attention in the Hong Kong context in the mid-1990s. As negative emotions may affect both teachers' well-being and the quality of their teaching, Hong Kong education policy-makers and educators have used psychological approaches to determine the reasons why teachers experience negative feelings.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Alienation, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Experience
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Whitaker, Douglas – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2016
Motivated by the increased statistics expectations for students and their teachers because of the widespread adoption of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, this study explores exemplary, in-service statistics teachers' professional identities using a theoretical framework informed by Gee (2000) and communities of practice (Lave &…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, High Schools, Professional Identity, Mathematics Teachers
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Yadav, Aman; Gretter, Sarah; Hambrusch, Susanne; Sands, Phil – Computer Science Education, 2017
The increased push for teaching computer science (CS) in schools in the United States requires training a large number of new K-12 teachers. The current efforts to increase the number of CS teachers have predominantly focused on training teachers from other content areas. In order to support these beginning CS teachers, we need to better…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Competencies
Surrette, Timothy N. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
A challenge for public schools is to successfully support and professionally develop early career teachers and thereby prepare them for long and successful careers in education. Multiple studies have indicated high levels of turnover in the profession of teaching, especially during the beginning years in a teachers career. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Qualitative Research, Secondary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers
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Norris, Lindy; Coutas, Penelope – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2014
The rhetoric around global connectedness and advances in information communication technologies (ICTs) suggests that: Professional life for the marginalised and isolated language teacher should be easier; the experience of language learners in Australian schools should be more meaningful and bring them closer to the languages and communities that…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, Professional Isolation
Peppers, Gloria J. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this study was to explore teachers' perceptions prior to the implementation of professional learning communities (PLCs) and after the implementation of PLCs in a large suburban high school. The goal was to provide information that focused on (a) retention and achievement of students, (b) retention of teachers, and (c) teachers'…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, High Schools, Teacher Attitudes, Communities of Practice