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Lessons Learned: New Teachers Talk About Their Jobs, Challenges and Long-Range Plans
Issue No. 2
Working Without a Net: How New Teachers from Three Prominent Alternate Route Programs Describe Their First Year on the Job
Jonathan Rochkind, Amber Ott, John Immerwahr, John Doble and Jean Johnson
The second in our Lessons Learned series of reports on new teachers raises questions about the support given to newcomers who come to teaching through "alternate routes." Working Without a Net focuses on new teachers in high-needs schools, comparing the perspectives of those from traditional teacher education versus those from three alternate-route programs: Teach for America, Troops to Teachers and The New Teacher Project. According to the survey, the alternate route teachers are especially motivated by the desire to help disadvantaged children but at the same time more disheartened by the conditions they find in their classrooms than traditionally-trained teachers. Lessons Learned is produced by Public Agenda and the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality.
