Finders and Keepers: Helping New Teachers Survive and Thrive in Our Schools (The Jossey-Bass Education Series)
by Susan Moore Johnson
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"This important and much-needed book is based on a longitudinal study of fifty new teachers during their first years in the classroom. It highlights the cases of ten, whose stories vividly illustrate the joys and disappointments of new teachers in today's schools. The book documents why they entered teaching, what they encountered in their schools, and how they decided whether to stay or move on to other schools or other lines of work. By tracking these teachers' eventual career decisions, show more Finders and Keepers reveals what really matters to new teachers as they set out to educate their students. The book uncovers the importance of the school site and the crucial role that principals and experienced teachers play in the effective hiring and induction of the next generation of teachers." "Staffing the nation's schools presents both challenges and opportunities. For teacher educators, district administrators, educational policymakers, teachers, principals, and staff development professionals, Finders and Keepers provides valuable insights about how to better serve new teachers and the students they teach."--Jacket. show lessTags
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Susan Moore Johnson, a former high school teacher and administrator, is the Pforzheimer Professor of Teaching and Learning at the Harvard Graduate School of Education Sarah E. Birkeland, Morgaen L. Donaldson, Susan M. Kardos, David Kauffman, Edward Liu, and Heather G. Peske are all are former teachers, advanced doctoral students, and published show more researchers at The Project on the Next Generation of Teachers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education show less
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- Nonfiction
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- 371.1 — Society, government, & culture Education Schools and their activities; special education Teachers; Teaching personnel; Professors, masters instructors
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- LB2844.1 .N4 .J65 — Education Theory and practice of education Theory and practice of education School administration and organization Teaching personnel
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