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Clayton, Christine Del Gaudio; Schoonmaker, Frances – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2007
This article examines the career trajectories and biographies of three women who completed the same graduate preservice program in elementary education. While two have become successful teacher leaders, the third has moved in and out of teaching. This inquiry draws on a ten-year longitudinal study of one of these teachers, positioning that…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Preservice Teacher Education, Universities, Elementary Education
Cistone, Peter; Shneyderman, Aleksandr – International Journal of Educational Policy, Research, and Practice: Reconceptualizing Childhood Studies, 2004
Looping is the practice in which a teacher instructs the same group of students for at least two school years, following them from one grade level to the next. Once a "loop" of two or more years is completed, the teacher may start a new loop teaching a new group of students. This evaluation study of the practice of looping in a large…
Descriptors: Looping (Teachers), Urban Schools, Elementary Schools, Comparative Analysis