Comprehensive Teacher Induction
Systems for Early Career Learning
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Lesson study offers a powerful set of lenses that can sharpen our gaze on teaching. It invites the teachers engaged in conducting a research lesson, observers of the lesson, or even those studying lesson study...
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Much of the current discourse of teaching makes explicit reference to globalization. Whether framed as needing teaching to prepare students for a global economy or introduced in terms of how teaching can be im...
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In this chapter, I explore the current moment of global discourse and its challenges for teacher education. I begin by making the case that, at an ideational level, there is indeed a global conversation of tea...
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Cross-national research studies such as the Program for International Student Assessment and the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) have contributed much to our understandings regarding ...
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The study "Mathematics Teaching in the 21st Century (MT21)" focuses beyond others on the measurement of teachers’ general pedagogical knowledge (GPK). GPK is regarded as a latent construct embedded in a larger...
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Li Mei is an energetic, cheerful woman who feels that teaching “is the hardest job under the sun, but the happiest”. [2] In her second year of teaching lower secondary mathematics, she teaches thirteen periods...
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Beginning to teach involves both starting a new job and entering a new way of life. There may be more or less ceremony (of welcome or initiation) at the school where one starts; there may be formal or informal...
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For a cultural outsider to shadow a French secondary mathematics teacher for a week during the first year of teaching is perhaps repeatedly to be surprised. The work required is varied and not even predominant...
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We began this book with a claim that induction represents a phase and not simply a program. In arguing for recognizing induction as a unique period, we are reminded of the lessons of Aries (1996) and others ab...