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Author Du Plessis, Anna Elizabeth

Title A Handbook for Retaining Early Career Teachers Research-Informed Approaches for School Leaders
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (244 p.)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Section I: Reimagining the Frame -- Chapter 1: The Challenges for Staying : What Makes Beginning Teachers Leave the Teaching Profession? -- Overview -- Introduction -- The Exodus -- The Hot Potato: ITE, School Expectations, and Preparedness -- Insight from Everydayness: Beginning Teachers' and School Leaders' Perceptions About Preparedness and Attrition -- Challenges of Preparedness: Here I am, Ready Or Not
Social/Relational Skills: Walking in Blind -- Behaviour Management Skills: An Expensive Collision -- Catching the Hot Potato -- Outline of the Book -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: A Voyage of Noticing the Context -- Overview -- Introduction -- What Is Context-Consciousness? -- The C-CUD Concepts -- Lived Experience and Everydayness -- Gadamer's Hermeneutics and the Fusion of Horizons -- The Knowledgeable Other and "At-Homeness" -- A Different Lens on the ZPD -- Bronfenbrenner Diagrams/Maps -- Operationalising C-CUD
The BTWP: The Impact of Context on Beginning Teachers' Growth and Development -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Finding the Golden Thread -- Overview -- Introduction -- Intrinsic Motivation -- Intrinsic Motivation at the Coal Face -- Transitions in the Teaching Profession -- Professional Identity -- What Is Professional Identity? -- The Journey of Teacher Growth and Confidence -- At-Homeness: Self-efficacy and Becoming the Knowledgeable Other -- Job Satisfaction -- Disruptive Transitioning Equals Disruptive Development -- Elevating the Profession: Poor Buy-In?
Professional Identity Development as an Anchor -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Identifying the Exits -- Overview -- Introduction -- "It's Too Much": Awareness of Relational and Cognitive Load -- Relational and Cognitive Load -- The Schools -- School Structures and Leadership Styles -- Kori Mosi State High School -- Bandi State High School -- Behaviour Management and Teacher Confidence -- The School Context -- "They Don't Know You From a Bar of Soap": Retention and School Leadership -- Connecting the Dots: The First Five Years' Approach -- Conclusion -- Note -- References
Section II: The Value of Time -- Chapter 5: Leaders Connecting the Dots -- Overview -- Introduction -- The Role of Senior Leaders in Context-Conscious Action -- Context-Conscious Policies for Effective Local Solutions -- Leadership, Belongingness, and School Culture -- Visibility and Connectedness -- Trust: The New Currency -- Induction -- Sociocultural Understandings -- "A Lot of Little Things": Providing Procedural Clarity -- Seeing the Future -- Beginning Teacher Performance Assessments and Early Development -- Beginning Teacher Aspiration and Career Acknowledgement
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Operationalising Leadership for Retention: Support and Resources
Subject Teacher turnover -- Australia
Teachers -- Job satisfaction -- Australia
Teacher-administrator relationships -- Australia
Teacher-administrator relationships.
Teacher turnover.
Teachers -- Job satisfaction.
Australia.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1000993973
9781000993974