@article{913581,
      recid = {913581},
      author = {Sullivan, Anna and Johnson, Bruce, and Simons, Michele,},
      title = {Attracting and Keeping the Best Teachers : Issues and  Opportunities /},
      pages = {1 online resource (231 pages).},
      abstract = {This book challenges dominant thinking about early career  teachers and their work. It offers an in-depth and critical  analysis of policies concerning the work of early career  teachers and how they are supported during this critical  period, when they are highly vulnerable to leaving the  profession. Moreover, the book provides examples from  actual practice that illustrate how to help early career  teachers make a successful transition into the profession.  These practices promote early career teachers' development  and help the profession as a whole to capitalize on the new  knowledge and skills that these teachers bring to their  classrooms and their students. The book is divided into two  main parts. Part 1 deals with the difficult to define  process of retaining early career teachers, and its  respective chapters consider this broad issue from an  international perspective. They explore how policies and  practices have an impact on what happens in schools, and  what it means to be a teacher and to teach. In turn, Part 2  focuses on the need to reconsider the policies and  practices that create the 'problem' of early career  teachers, and offers alternative ways forward. Each chapter  addresses a specific aspect of the early career teacher  retention issue, contributing to a greater understanding of  how we can rethink the work of early career teachers so  that they can more successfully transition into the  profession.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/913581},
}