Nurturing Decisional Capital in Novice Teachers: An Instrument Development Study

• In Event: Across the Teacher Career Continuum

Abstract

The overarching purpose of the research is to understand how novice teachers develop
decisional capital during their first three years of induction into the teaching profession through a three year mentoring program. The secondary purpose is to create instruments, both qualitative
and quantitative, to understand the development of decisional capital in novice teachers. Understanding strong teacher development is a key to retaining high quality teachers in the field. Additionally, understanding better ways of mentoring is also powerful.

Authors

• Amanda Shuford Mayeaux, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

• Jeff Walls, Washington State University

• Julie Workman

• Karen Norton, Arch Ford Educational Services Cooperative