TY - JOUR
T1 - How Day School Teachers Perceive Their Working Conditions
T2 - A National Study
AU - Tamir, Eran
AU - Pearlmutter, Nili
AU - Feiman-Nemser, Sharon
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Network for Research in Jewish Education.
PY - 2017/4/3
Y1 - 2017/4/3
N2 - Induction and mentoring are widely considered in the United States and in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries as a basic universal and critical intervention for a successful launch of new teachers. Based on an expanded set of survey data, this article focuses on how Jewish day schools offer professional support and learning opportunities from the head of school, the administration, colleagues, parents, and the school community and how useful teachers perceive these resources to be. This study reveals that less than half of all teachers in the schools surveyed report participating in formal induction programs and believe their schools take the learning needs of new teachers seriously. Schools would do well to attend to this aspect of teacher support and consider the systems and structures that do (or do not) exist to help orient, support, and develop new teachers.
AB - Induction and mentoring are widely considered in the United States and in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries as a basic universal and critical intervention for a successful launch of new teachers. Based on an expanded set of survey data, this article focuses on how Jewish day schools offer professional support and learning opportunities from the head of school, the administration, colleagues, parents, and the school community and how useful teachers perceive these resources to be. This study reveals that less than half of all teachers in the schools surveyed report participating in formal induction programs and believe their schools take the learning needs of new teachers seriously. Schools would do well to attend to this aspect of teacher support and consider the systems and structures that do (or do not) exist to help orient, support, and develop new teachers.
KW - Administration/principal/head of school support
KW - Jewish day school
KW - beginning teachers
KW - professional development
KW - professional learning community
KW - school environment
KW - teacher survey
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85018410801&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/15244113.2017.1307054
DO - 10.1080/15244113.2017.1307054
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AN - SCOPUS:85018410801
SN - 1524-4113
VL - 83
SP - 92
EP - 108
JO - Journal of Jewish Education
JF - Journal of Jewish Education
IS - 2
ER -