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Well-Prepared Teachers Inspire Student Learning
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Pecheone, Raymond L.; Whittaker, Andrea – Phi Delta Kappan, 2016
This is an era of transformation in the preparation, induction, and assessment of prospective teachers. The tension between local and state control is at the heart of the debate. States should be responsible for establishing performance standards that ensure that new teachers are well-prepared, competent, and ready to teach. This is why the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Preservice Teachers, Standards, Teacher Education Programs
Mentors for Teachers from outside the U.S.
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Hutchison, Charles B.; Jazzar, Michael – Phi Delta Kappan, 2007
Experienced teachers often serve as mentors to novices. In this article, the authors explore a new variety of mentorship that is evolving as growing numbers of international teachers are hired to work in U.S. schools. It is stated here that effective mentoring, though not a guarantee, can significantly improve international teachers' cultural…
Descriptors: Mentors, Foreign Workers, Teacher Orientation, Acculturation
My Mother's Teaching Career--What It Can Tell Us about Teachers Who Are Not Fully Certified
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Clement, Mary C. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2006
In this article, the author shares her mother's teaching career without any college education or teacher training and discusses what it conveys about teachers who are not fully certified. While the author favors more traditional paths to teaching, culminating in full certification, she admits that there are other viable options. Just as 60 years…
Descriptors: Teacher Certification, Personal Narratives, Teaching Experience, Teacher Recruitment
Schools and the Beginning Teacher.
Moran, Sheila W. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1990
Dispelling the myth that beginning teachers are fully equipped to handle the demands of their professions begins by acknowledging that the first months and years of teaching are full of pain, confusion, loneliness, and often humiliation. Schools can help by fostering beginner peer groups and encouraging early professional development and…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Helping Relationship, School Responsibility
First Aid for First-Year Teachers.
Merseth, Katherine K. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1992
Computers dedicated to supporting beginning teachers are like first aid kits. Both are inexpensive, simple to use, and intended to address minor problems and prevent the development of more serious complications. Both rely on self-analysis and are nonevaluative. Electronic networks offer the assurance of easily accessible, nonjudgmental resources…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Coping
Staffing Decisions in the Middle Grades: Balancing Quality Instruction and Teacher/Student Relations.
McPartland, James M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1990
Staffing patterns can significantly affect educators' efforts to provide high-quality instruction and create positive teacher/student relations in the middle grades. State data and Johns Hopkins University survey results are used to show how staffing patterns serving one goal may interfere with accomplishing another goal. Corrective staffing…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Departments, Educational Trends, Junior High Schools