The pipeline of college students seeking teaching positions is shrinking. The teacher shortage makes finding and retaining new teachers even more challenging. The cost of replacing existing teachers who leave is tremendous, and new teachers leave the profession at an alarming rate. This dissertation explored the lived experiences of new teachers…

The inclusion of a mentor teacher in a novice teacher induction program dramatically improves early career teacher feelings of satisfaction and desires to remain in the profession. Mentors require various tools and trainings to best develop resilient novice teachers. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to examine mentoring experiences…

The purpose of this study is to explore how induction programs impact untenured teachers' overall experiences and perceptions. This study focused on stories, experiences, and values that were explicitly discussed by each participant related to their district's induction program. In general, strong induction programs provide an intense level of…

Entering the teaching profession can be an overwhelming experience for new educators. Like many states, Massachusetts requires school districts to develop and implement induction programming for beginning teachers. The terms "induction" and "mentoring" tend to be used interchangeably by districts and schools resulting in the…

This article reflects on the assumptions we make in the design of faculty and graduate student orientations and on the implementation of redesigned orientations that foreground participant narrative. When educational developers purposefully make space for participant stories at their orientations, it is a way not only to share power with graduate…

In his letter introducing the 2011 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, former President Barack Obama stated "we know that from the moment students enter a school, the most important factor in their success is not the color of their skin or the income of their parents--it is the teacher standing at the front of the…

The aims of this paper are to explore novice teachers' experiences in the Covid-19 crisis, and to examine their professional identity construction process. During the global crisis, novice teachers had to deal with unexpected challenges and take advantage of new opportunities. This study is based on 32 narratives of novice teachers in Israel who…

This autoethnography discusses the trials and wonders of joining the teacher force fresh from college. It is a first-hand account of the author's experiences, as well as stories from other teachers the author has met along her journey. The article demonstrates the education field's attempts and failures at helping the new staff transition into the…

Many overseas trained teachers migrate to Australia in search of different lifestyles. In their endeavour to find suitable teaching positions in public secondary schools, overseas trained teachers often confront multiple challenges. This study explored the different issues that 12 overseas trained teachers experienced before obtaining a teaching…

Graduate teachers generally experience an array of emotions and self negotiations about beliefs, values, personal and professional identity and their ability to evidence the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) at graduate stage when they commence as new classroom teachers. Much has been said about developing pre service teachers'…

This study aimed to investigate the nature of the induction process of English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers teaching at tertiary level through individual interviews. In order to gather intended data, fifteen novice instructors teaching at four different public universities in Ankara were interviewed on a basis of two criteria: (a) having 1…

Assumptions are often made about new lecturers in terms of previous experience, development needs and orientations towards the new role. Postgraduate certificate (PgCert) programmes tend to operate on the assumption that new lecturers are already familiar with the research element of their discipline, in a default transition from PhD to…

Using a longitudinal design, the job satisfaction and career development of beginning teachers are explored in the present study. Beginning teachers were initially interviewed after graduation from the teacher training programme and then after gaining a two-year teaching experience. The results are presented in a fourfold typology in which the…

This research project studies the induction and socialization of new faculty at Mount Royal University, recently transitioned from college to undergraduate university status. There is extensive documentation in the literature on issues faced by new faculty in post-secondary institutions; however, very little is published on how a culture in flux…

Although many researchers have focused their efforts on studying first-year teachers, little research has been conducted about experienced new teachers, educators who have teaching experience but are new to a school or school system. This qualitative study of the experiences of three experienced new teachers reveals that many experienced new…