Most Recent Articles from Phi Delta Kappan

• Accelerating teacher effectiveness: lessons learned from two decades of new teacher induction: the best induction programs blend support for novice teachers with expertise from veteran teachers, creating collegial groups that benefit all teachers and all 

  These are inspiring times to be in education. Perhaps you wonder at my statement. You may question whether I've read the discouraging news about...

  10/01/09 by Ellen Moir · More from publication

• Hiring highly qualified teachers begins with quality interviews: past behavior is the best predictor of future performance, so educators would be wise to craft interview questions that explore past experiences, skills, and behaviors of job candidates 

  The personnel director of a large Midwestern city school district recently remarked that, in today's economic climate, he was receiving 1,800...

  10/01/09 by Mary C. Clement · More from publication

• Recruiting teachers in Colombia: some Colombian schools introduce students to teaching careers as early as the 8th grade, making them experienced teachers by the time they graduate from high school 

  "23, 24, 25 ..." The class counts out loud as Carmen brushes her teeth. She has left the faucet running and, after just 30 seconds, the sink is...

  10/01/09 by Robert Blair · More from publication

• Virtual coaching for novice teachers: technology enables university professors to observe and literally whisper in the ear of a teacher during instruction 

  Meet Katie ... The end of the school year was fast approaching. Katie couldn't wait. As far as she was concerned, it had been a dreadful year....

  10/01/09 by Marcia L. Rock; Madeleine Gregg; Robert A. Gable; Naomi P. Zigmond · More from publication

• Induction programs that work: universities working in collaboration with school districts have created programs that benefit both, as well as supporting novice teachers 

  Lindsey, a beginning 3rd-grade teacher, has inherited the smallest classroom--the one without air conditioning--from an experienced teacher who...

  10/01/09 by Carol Gilles; Barbara Davis; Sheryl McGlamery · More from publication

• "On the run, in the real": teacher candidates describe their year in an immersion preparation program 

  "It's the difference between looking in a book and it says, 'This is Africa; it has some elephants and some trees and some wildlife.' In a...

  10/01/09 by Robert W. Maloy; Kathleen Gagne; Ruth-Ellen Verock-O'Loughlin · More from publication

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