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Schellings, Gonny; Koopman, Maaike; Beijaard, Douwe; Mommers, Janine – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2023
This study focuses on the complexity and uniqueness of 45 beginning teachers' professional identity, an important perspective that is usually not an explicit part of induction programmes. Data were collected in four workshops designed to support beginning teachers in reflecting on personal and contextual aspects that influence (the development of)…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Professional Identity, Classroom Techniques, Teacher Workshops
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Mommers, Janine; Schellings, Gonny; Beijaard, Douwe – Journal of Teacher Education and Educators, 2021
Developing a professional identity is a key element of the transition into the teaching profession. Limited research exists on professional development activities and ideas that support beginning teachers' development of their professional identity in practice. For this study teachers participated in an induction programme that focused on…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Professional Development, Beginning Teachers, Beginning Teacher Induction
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Ping, Cui; Schellings, Gonny; Beijaard, Douwe; Ye, Juyan – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2021
This survey study explores how teacher educators perceive relevant aspects of professional learning in their practice. These aspects were considered as important by teacher educators in a previous review study. A total of 583 Dutch and Chinese teacher educators completed a digital questionnaire regarding the content of teacher educators' learning,…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Faculty Development, Teacher Educator Education, Relevance (Education)
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van der Want, Anna C.; den Brok, Perry; Beijaard, Douwe; Brekelmans, Mieke; Claessens, Luce C. A.; Pennings, Helena J. M. – Professional Development in Education, 2019
This study investigated the relation between teachers' interpersonal role identity on the one hand and teachers' self-efficacy, burnout and work engagement on the other. Data was collected using questionnaires and semi-structured and video-stimulated interviews. Results especially showed differences for self-efficacy between the teachers'…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Self Efficacy, Teacher Burnout, Teacher Motivation
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van der Want, Anna C.; den Brok, Perry; Beijaard, Douwe; Brekelmans, Mieke; Claessens, Luce C. A.; Pennings, Helena J. M. – Research Papers in Education, 2018
Interpersonal relationships between teachers and students play a crucial role in teachers' professional identity, yet have hardly been focused on in research. This study aimed to explore teachers' interpersonal role identity over time by focusing on teachers' appraisals of classroom situations and the relation with their interpersonal identity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Student Relationship
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van der Want, Anna C.; den Brok, Perry; Beijaard, Douwe; Brekelmans, Mieke; Claessens, Luce C. A.; Pennings, Helena J. M. – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2015
This article investigates the link between teachers' appraisal of specific interpersonal situations in classrooms and their more general interpersonal identity standard, which together form their interpersonal role identity. Using semi-structured and video-stimulated interviews, data on teachers' appraisals and interpersonal identity standards…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Professional Identity, Semi Structured Interviews, Standards
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Pillen, Marieke; Beijaard, Douwe; Brok, Perry den – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2013
This study examined tensions encountered by 182 beginning teachers during their professional identity development, the feelings that accompanied these tensions and the ways they tried to cope with these. Professional identity tensions stem from an unbalanced personal and professional side of (becoming) a teacher. Tensions that are often mentioned…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Professional Identity, Professional Development, Coping
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Pillen, Marieke; Beijaard, Douwe; den Brok, Perry – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2013
This study reports on interviews with 24 beginning teachers about tensions they experienced regarding their professional identity. The interviewees reported a total of 59 tensions of tension that fell into three themes: (1) the change in role from student to teacher; (2) conflicts between desired and actual support given to students; and (3)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Identity, Stress Variables, Beginning Teachers
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Canrinus, Esther T.; Helms-Lorenz, Michelle; Beijaard, Douwe; Buitink, Jaap; Hofman, Adriaan – Educational Studies, 2011
This study shows that professional identity should not be viewed as a composed variable with a uniform structure. Based on the literature and previous research, we view teachers' job satisfaction, self-efficacy, occupational commitment and change in the level of motivation as indicators of teachers' professional identity. Using two-step cluster…
Descriptors: Professional Isolation, Job Satisfaction, Self Efficacy, Teacher Role