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Deloris Mitchell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This constructivist grounded theory research study investigated why teachers remain in their profession when teacher attrition is at record highs by focusing on understanding their experiences and their decisions to continue to teach. Decades of research highlighted the factors that influence educators to leave the profession. These factors…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Teaching Experience, Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers
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Chunyan Yang; Ella Rho; Xueqin Lin; Meg Stomski – School Psychology, 2024
Despite the importance of understanding teacher empowerment and silence to help address issues of teacher shortage and well-being and improve school-based consultation, research on the topic has been understudied and undertheorized, particularly for new teachers. To fill this research gap, we carried out a constructivist grounded theory-based…
Descriptors: Teacher Empowerment, COVID-19, Pandemics, Beginning Teachers
Warfield, I'Asha S. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Teacher attrition disproportionately affects schools that have high populations of students who are socio-economically disadvantaged and/or high populations of students of color. The retention of social justice teachers is specifically important at high-needs schools because these teachers help to address both educational and social inequality.…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Labor Turnover, Social Justice, Experienced Teachers
Kerri Lynn Fair – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This phenomenographic investigation examined the perceptions and perspectives of eight middle-aged/mid-career women teachers' lived experience of teacher burnout. While school districts, leaders, and the larger communities in which they reside problematize burnout and present the phenomenon as a condition to be treated or a problem to be solved,…
Descriptors: Females, Women Faculty, Teacher Burnout, Teaching Conditions
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Teresa L. Sullivan; Kimberly McHugh; Laura Louko – Palgrave Macmillan, 2025
This book chronicles the challenges, truths, and lessons of teaching and leading in a traditional high school today: the bureaucratic red tape, the fight for inclusivity, the mental health and safety concerns, and the urgent need for teacher support and wellness. From active shooter drills to digital distractions, from closing achievement gaps to…
Descriptors: Empathy, Barriers, Teaching Methods, High School Students
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Bernstein, Colleen; Batchelor, Toni Paige – South African Journal of Education, 2022
The aim of the study reported on here was to examine workplace bullying among teachers in South African schools. The research was framed by the Job Demands-Resources Model which was utilised to determine the extent of demands and resources that teachers experience and the implications thereof for creating an environment that fosters bullying and…
Descriptors: Bullying, Work Environment, Teachers, Teaching Conditions
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Matthews, Wendy K.; Koner, Karen – Arts Education Policy Review, 2022
Public debate surrounds the success of charter schools in serving students and providing a generative environment for teacher innovation. Through semi-structured interviews with eleven (N = 11) K-12 charter school music teachers, this study aims to contribute to the understanding of charter school music teachers' perceptions of their setting in…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Teacher Attitudes, Music Teachers
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Collie, Rebecca J.; Bostwick, Keiko C. P.; Martin, Andrew J. – Educational Psychology, 2020
We examined the role of gender in teachers' perceived autonomy support (PAS), relatedness with students, workplace buoyancy, and organizational commitment. With 276 Australian secondary school teachers, structural equation modelling showed predominant similarities across gender in associations between PAS, relatedness, buoyancy, and commitment.…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Secondary School Teachers, Professional Autonomy, Teacher Attitudes
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Bieler, Deborah; Holmes, Stephen; Wolfe, Edward W. – New Educator, 2017
This study examined the teaching assignments of English teachers in 13 Mid-Atlantic high schools across five states. Data on the experience levels of 175 English teachers teaching 246 classes and surveys from 85 teacher participants were collected. Findings reveal that major agency-thwarting challenges face new English teachers: They typically are…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, High School Students, Teacher Persistence, Teaching Conditions
Stevenson, Zollie, Jr. – Center for Education Equity, Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium, 2019
In 2012 there were approximately 80 million millennials and about 70 million baby boomers (Schawbel, 2012). Schawbel estimates that by 2025 three of four workers will be of the millennial generation. By 2041, which is during the lifetime of most millennials, America's population is projected to become majority Brown and Black (Kundu, 2014).…
Descriptors: Minority Group Teachers, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Persistence, Barriers
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Yasué, Maï; Jeno, Lucas M.; Langdon, Jody L. – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2019
We extended the research on autonomy-supportive teaching to universities and examined the relationships between autonomous motivation to teach and autonomy-supportive teaching. Autonomously motivated university instructors were more autonomy-supportive instructors. The freedom to make pedagogical decisions was negatively correlated with external…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, College Faculty, Class Size, Faculty Workload
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Mutlu, Gizem – Journal of Teacher Education and Educators, 2017
The present small-scale study aimed to investigate teacher agency from the perspective of in-service language teachers in relation to their perceived professional space. It specifically aimed to have an understanding of factors contributing to teacher agency positively and negatively. To this end, eight Turkish EFL teachers working at private and…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Teacher Empowerment, English (Second Language), English Teachers
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Ruys, Ilse; Van Keer, Hilde; Aelterman, Antonia – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2014
Despite the research evidence on the effectiveness of collaborative learning (CL), the implementation of this teaching strategy has not yet found a profound place in teaching practice. As a consequence, several studies have investigated teachers' motives regarding and experiences with the use of CL. Most of these studies concern however senior…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Cooperative Learning, Novices, Beginning Teachers
Dawson, Heather S. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
High-stakes testing has created challenges for teachers, administrators, parents, students, and other related education stakeholders in recent decades (Nichols & Berliner, 2007). While high-stakes tests have a long history (Ravitch, 2009) it was not until No Child Left Behind was signed into law in 2002 that the tests became law for most…
Descriptors: Beliefs, High Stakes Tests, Teacher Motivation, Teacher Attitudes
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Wills, John S.; Sandholtz, Judith Haymore – Teachers College Record, 2009
Background/Context: In response to state-level test-based accountability and the federal No Child Left Behind Act, school administrators increasingly view centralized curriculum and prescribed instructional strategies as the most direct means of increasing student performance. This movement toward standardization reduces teachers' autonomy and…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Professional Autonomy, Federal Legislation, Observation
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