Teaching in the early years of practice

Focusing the challenges affecting public education were a on one explanation for early attrition—say, school shortage of teachers in rural and remote school culture and other immediate local conditions—can districts and the under-representation of First Nations cause one to underestimate the impact of other and visible minorities in the teaching population. [...] Pilot Study Study Sample At the end of the 2006/07 school year, the ATA The study sample consisted of 135 new teachers conducted a pilot study involving 100 teachers randomly selected from among approximately 850 randomly selected from among the first-year teachers who had attended the ATA’s Beginning teachers who had attended the ATA’s Beginning Teachers’ Conference in the fall of 2007. [...] During the course of early-career learning, professional identity and the study, the researchers conducted an ongoing the kind of support that participants had received review of the literature on new teachers’ experiences from colleagues, administrators, school districts in schools, induction practices, school leadership, and the ATA. [...] The The focus group conversations and the researchers reviewed the research literature on an extended interviews were transcribed and analyzed ongoing basis to determine how the findings of the thematically using NVivo software. [...] The researchers analysed the qualitative data • The quality of the support that participants independently and met frequently to compare received in their first years of teaching insights and interpretations.