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- Title: Examining Our Career Switching Teachers' First Year of Teaching: Implications for Alternative Teacher Education Program Design (Report)
- Author : Teacher Education Quarterly
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 241 KB
Description
Before Kevin Laub became an English teacher, he was an investment banker for six years with Morgan Stanley on Wall Street with an office in Tower Two at the World Trade Center. During college, his goal was "to make enough money to live in New York City" (Biderman, 2006, p. 8). On September 11, 2001, his world changed. After running down 62 flights of stairs while a plane hit his building, he thought about his life and began to rethink his career goal. He chose teaching as his second career and completed the alternative teacher preparation program examined in this study. Although he graduated before this study and is not part of it, his story signifies that second career teachers get a second chance to make the difference they want to make in the world as teachers. This study explores the impact of an alternative teacher preparation program development from the "inside out" or through the voices of second career teachers, known as "Career Switchers," at a mid-size state university. The major objective of this study was to probe into their perceptions to inform program development with reporting framed in their first year of teaching experiences. There has been much discussion about the quality, design, and growth of alternative teacher preparation programs which arose due to a growing need for newly hired teachers (Darling-Hammond, 2006; Darling-Hammond & Sykes, 2003). Although there has been significant criticism about such programs, this study is responsive to the call for examining alternative teacher preparation at a local level, i.e., within a specific program.