Date of Award
5-2008
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Legacy Department
Educational Leadership
Committee Chair/Advisor
Fisk, William
Committee Member
Fleming , David
Committee Member
Green , Robert
Committee Member
Havice , William
Abstract
Every day teachers enter and leave the field of education. The number of teachers leaving the field in the first five years of teaching has doubled in the last ten yers. It is important to examine the constructs that allow some teachers to remain in the field, while others leave to pursue different careers. A review of the literature showed that there was understanding of the positive and negative constructs in education, but there was limited resarch on the application of these constructs to the teachers' careers. To understand why some teachers remain in the field and others leave, this phenomenology has a) examined the process that a teacher goes through from starting as a beginning teacher to becoming a veteran one, b) noted the similarities in the process that each teacher experienced,c) related the findings in the literature, and d) looked at how teachers' experiences helped them to grow and learn. The major characteristic that a teacher must possess to go from a novice teacher to a veteran one is adaptation. Adaptation skills are needed to allow the teacher to remain in the school environment. A teacher must possess adaptation skills to consider himself or herself a successful part of the teaching environment and to emerge from a novice to a veteran teacher.
Recommended Citation
Rollins, Jean, "TEACHER GROWTH: ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF EXPERIENCES IN DEVELOPMENT FROM A NOVICE TO VETERAN TEACHER" (2008). All Dissertations. 194.
https://open.clemson.edu/all_dissertations/194