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Tuyet T. Huynh – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The current study took place in a North Texas public school district. The purpose was to compare levels of teacher self-efficacy among beginning teachers who had participated in traditional and alternative teacher educator preparation programs (EPPs). Additionally, the perceptions of beginning teachers were explored in relation to their…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Teacher Effectiveness, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Certification
Boothby, Casey – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Teacher turnover is an issue not only in the state of Idaho but across the nation. This study examined the attrition outcomes of 6,572 beginning teachers in Idaho that were trained in one of four types of teacher preparation programs and started teaching between the 2014-15 and 2019- 20 school years. Teachers in the ABCTE preparation program were…
Descriptors: Faculty Mobility, Teacher Persistence, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
Jessica Rozell – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The aim of this study was to explore the extent to which teachers received the education or training that prepared them to teach social studies content knowledge, social studies critical thinking skills, and their overall preparation to become highly qualified teachers. The participants in the study were active social studies teachers in Tennessee…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Social Studies, Preservice Teacher Education, Program Effectiveness
Robert G. Hastings – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this study was to examine how novice teachers perceive their teacher preparation after reflecting on their initial year(s) as teachers. The theoretical framework of the study was rooted in David Kolb's Theory of Experiential Learning (1984). Kolb's theory provides a theoretical base to inform how knowledge can be created and…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Reflection, Self Concept, Teacher Education Programs
Ashlie N. Perry – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Schools in economically marginalized areas often have a disproportionate number of low-performing or ineffective teachers and face challenges in recruiting and retaining highly effective teachers. The grow your own (GYO) model recruits and trains recent high school graduates and school employees who are interested in becoming classroom teachers.…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Program Effectiveness, Alternative Teacher Certification, Beginning Teachers
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Kristin R. Lazenby Rankin; Jodie L. Brinkmann – Teacher Educators' Journal, 2024
The Commonwealth of Virginia has seen an increase in the number of educators completing Alternative Teacher Certification Programs, contributing to the diversity in the teaching work force. The purpose of this study was to identify the perceptions of alternatively certified public K-12 teachers regarding their preparedness to teach. The researcher…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Alternative Teacher Certification, Teacher Attitudes, Public School Teachers
Ronald Dewayne Bragg – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Individuals who desire to pursue the teaching profession have two primary paths for preparation: either completing a traditional college-based program or an alternative program. A generic qualitative inquiry methodology was used to explore the perspective of novice teacher participants on how prepared they felt based on the preparation program…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Preservice Teacher Education, Program Effectiveness
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Virginia S. Lovison – Education Next, 2024
Since its founding 34 years ago, Teach For America has prepared nearly 70,000 recent college graduates and career-changers to teach in high-poverty schools across the United States. Unlike traditional teacher-preparation programs, it places "corps members" in short-staffed public schools after an intensive summer seminar, before they are…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Alternative Teacher Certification, Beginning Teachers, Disadvantaged
Matthew Geoghegan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study was conducted to provide a better understanding of how teacher mentors are trained and supported by their coaches through the Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD) On the Rise Academy's mentor training program. The focus of the study was to uncover what teacher mentors viewed as effective training in their roles while…
Descriptors: Mentors, Public Schools, School Districts, Coaching (Performance)
Caitlin Michele Cain – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This study investigates alternatively certified, first and second year teachers within a region in Texas and will present focus group findings and survey results on how new teacher induction programs could influence the thoughts and perceptions of alternatively certified teachers during their first years of teaching. This study seeks to understand…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, Beginning Teachers, Beginning Teacher Induction, Teacher Attitudes
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Wenzel, Alicia; Hovey, Katrina A.; Ittner, Annie – Athens Journal of Education, 2023
This year-long, multiple case study followed a small group (N=6) of graduates from an initial licensure Education Preparation Program (EPP) into their classrooms to observe their first year as licensed teachers in United States public schools. The study's purpose was twofold: 1) to explore the extent to which this group used formative assessments…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Teacher Certification, Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers
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Dubetz, Nancy; Collett, Jennifer – Action in Teacher Education, 2020
To investigate how competent preservice candidates were prepared to teach English learners (ELs), a case study was conducted to examine 30 candidates use of effective practices for ELs during preservice preparation and the first years of teaching. Data included: (1) preservice assignments related to planning and teaching; (2) student teaching…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Preservice Teacher Education, English Language Learners, Beginning Teachers
Ericka J. Armstrong – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The nationwide teacher shortage has led to a shortage of fully trained teacher to hire leaving schools more open to hiring nontraditional teachers. Within this study, a nontraditional teacher is one who did not complete a formal teacher education process that included student teaching. These teachers are left to rely on their mentoring process for…
Descriptors: Mentors, Alternative Teacher Certification, Teacher Shortage, Teacher Attitudes
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Rose, Amanda L.; Sughrue, Jennifer A. – Teacher Development, 2021
Alternative teacher certification routes in the United States gained recognition in response to the teacher shortage since the 1980s. However, the unique challenges these teachers face result in concerns of quality and retention. The purposes of this study were to (a) investigate novice alternatively certified teachers' (ACT) perspectives on…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Educational Needs, Beginning Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
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Shwartz, Gabriella; Dori, Yehudit Judy – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2020
Using the identity lens as a theoretical framework, we studied 42 novice second career chemistry teachers, who had previously worked as chemists and participated in an alternative certification program (ACP) at a science and engineering research university. Our goal was to understand the transition process of these teachers into the teaching…
Descriptors: Career Change, Teaching (Occupation), Professional Identity, Beginning Teachers
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