Current Issues in Education (Apr 2011)

Novice Teachers and Their Acquisition of Work-Related Information

  • Kyoung-Ae Kim,
  • Gene Leon Roth

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1

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This qualitative case study explores types of work-related information that novice teachers seek out and learn that is related to their daily work tasks. Eighteen experienced K-6 teachers offer their reflections about the dynamics of seeking and interpreting work-related information during their initial years of teaching. In-depth interviews were used to ask participants to reflect on their pathways of finding and using work-related information when they were novice teachers. The participants described nuances of their school settings that provided catalysts and barriers to gaining and using work-related information.

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