Storying Their Way Into, Through, and out of Teaching: Early-Career Teachers’ Transition From Initial Teacher Education Into the Workforce

• In Event: Shaping Australian Teacher Education Research

Abstract

Improving the quality of teachers and teaching is a central goal of many educational systems. Given the increasingly complex teacher education landscape, more needs to be known about the particularities of effective programs and how teachers integrate their knowledge in skillful ways to shape successful teaching over time (Darling-Hammond, 2010; Barber and Mourshed, 2007; OECD, 2005). This project is timely given the current context of educational reforms in Australia, as shown by the strong national interest in teacher policy issues over the past decade. Currently, the national research base is dominated by small-scale, disparate and point-in-time studies of early career teachers’ experiences in Australia. This project involves in-depth interviews with early career teachers at key points in their first few years of teaching.

Authors

• Brenton Doecke, Deakin University

• Alex Kostogriz, Deakin University

• Pauline Ho

• Andrea Colleen Allard, Deakin University