Using Improvement Science to Better Support Beginning Teachers: The Case of the Building a Teaching Effectiveness Network
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- Title
- Using Improvement Science to Better Support Beginning Teachers: The Case of the Building a Teaching Effectiveness Network
- Abstract/Description
- The rapid turnover of novice teachers is a stubborn challenge plaguing schools across the country. The field has come to some consensus about key elements of effective novice teacher support that have potential to ameliorate this problem, although this knowledge has been applied in an inconsistent fashion. Beginning teacher support is a complex issue that functions on many levels: It impacts teachers, school administrators, districts, and the educational system and labor market more broadly. This article analyzes a collaborative effort to tackle this problem: the Building a Teaching Effectiveness Network (BTEN). We use a qualitative case study approach to analyze how BTEN schools supported new teacher development using a standard feedback process and improvement science methods. This analysis offers evidence that these methods enabled participants to learn about their schools while enacting and enhancing the teacher support process, and to reckon with persistent norms that can be obstacles to creating improvement in schools.
- Date
- In publication
- Journal of Teacher Education
- Volume
- 66
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 494-508
- Publisher
- Sage
- Resource type
- en Research/Scholarly Media
- Resource status/form
- en Published Text
- Scholarship genre
- en Empirical
- Keywords
- recruitment and retention
- school/teacher effectiveness
- teacher induction
- teacher learning,
- case study
- IRE Approach/Concept
- Improvement Science
- Measurement for Improvement
- Featured case/project
- Building a Teaching Effectiveness Network (BTEN)
- Language
- en
- Open access/full-text available
- en Yes
- Peer reviewed
- en Yes
- ISSN
- 0022-4871
- URL
- Publisher Webpage for Article
- Item on ERIC (EJ1079276)
- Full-text PDF Shared by Author (ResearchGate)
- Other related resources/entities
- Building a Teaching Effectiveness Network (BTEN)
- Citation
- Hannan, M., Russell, J. L., Takahashi, S., & Park, S. (2015). Using Improvement Science to Better Support Beginning Teachers: The Case of the Building a Teaching Effectiveness Network. Journal of Teacher Education, 66(5), 494–508. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022487115602126
- Item sets
- OB Citations - Cross National Research on Continuous Improvement
- OB Citations - Conceptualizing, Measuring, and Evaluating Improvement Networks
- OB Citations - Continuous Improvement and "High Leverage" Educational Problems
- OB Citations - Measurement for Improvement in Education
- OB Citations - Traditions of Quality Improvement in Education
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