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.

Author/creator

Hannan, Maggie

Russell, Jennifer Lin

Takahashi, Sola

Park, Sandra

Date

2015

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

Peer reviewed

en Yes

ISSN

0022-4871

DOI

10.1177/0022487115602126

URL

Publisher Webpage for Article

ERIC Webpage for Article (ERIC# EJ1079276)

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

Cited in

Measurement for Improvement

Cross-National Research on Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement and "High Leverage" Educational Problems

Measurement for Improvement in Education

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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