ERIC Number: EJ1121975
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005
Pages: 4
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ISSN: EISSN-1174-2208
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"Schools Have an Obligation to the Profession to Induct Beginning Teachers": A Narrative of a School with Multiple Beginning Teachers on the Staff
Whyte, Barbara
Teachers and Curriculum, v8 p65-68 2005
Why is it that some New Zealand primary schools invite and welcome beginning teachers, known as Provisionally Registered Teachers (PRTs), to be part of their staff? A narrative is presented here of one New Zealand primary school that employs several beginning teachers at a time. Information was generated from interviews with 1) the senior management team; 2) Provisionally Registered Teachers (PRTs) on the staff; and 3) a recently-registered former-PRT still teaching in the school. The information generated from the interviews was analysed for the reasons why such a proactive PRT employment stance is maintained and how the school goes about the process of induction for these beginning teachers. The analysis suggests the management team's stance comes from a sincere belief that schools have an obligation to the profession to help induct beginning teachers. It also shows that this school strives to ensure its induction process is educative in nature (challenging the ideas and practices of its PRTs) as well as instrumental (providing support, advice and guidance on how to deliver the curriculum and meet registration requirements). Best-evidence {Ministry of Education, 2004) suggests the induction process can be more effective if such a two-fold approach is used. The narrative illustrates the importance of the attitudes and actions of the management team in establishing and maintaining this two-fold approach.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Beginning Teachers, Interviews, Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Beginning Teacher Induction, Teacher Competencies, Intervention, Administrator Role, Principals
Wilf Malcolm Institute for Educational Research. Faculty of Education, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand. Tel: +64-7-858-5171; Fax: +64-7-838-4712; e-mail: wmier@waikato.ac.nz; Web site: http://tandc.ac.nz/tandc
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: New Zealand
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