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33.056 - The Secret Lives of Early Childhood Teachers: Fidelity in Professional Identity, Professional Development, and Teaching

Fri, April 17, 2:15 to 3:45pm, Hyatt, Floor: East Tower - Green Level, Plaza B

Session Type: Symposium

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This session will highlight five research studies on early years’ teachers’ professional identity formation; professional development; and daily teaching practices. It will illuminate how teachers in various educational and care settings (private, public, university lab settings) negotiate (Hyun, 2006) their roles in schools. It will foreground the common threads through each of these independent studies showing the practices including those that are secretive, somewhat clandestine strategies, that preschool teachers utilize and assign while navigating their multifaceted responsibilities within their programs/schools. This session is intended to inform and stimulate dialogue on these topics and broadens the body of knowledge of authentic early years teacher identity, professional development, and ethical fidelity in teaching.

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