Professor Douglas Newton d.p.newton@durham.ac.uk
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Professor Douglas Newton d.p.newton@durham.ac.uk
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Professor Lynn Newton l.d.newton@durham.ac.uk
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Head teachers and student teachers have conceptions of what matters when selecting and judging the effectiveness of a new teacher. This study reports the results of surveys of sixty-six primary school head teachers' and eighty-one postgraduate student teachers' ratings of various criteria for selecting and judging new teachers. The data are consistent with those of similar surveys in the United States and there is a fairly high level of agreement between what the head teachers and the student teachers judged to be important. Nevertheless mismatches in conceptions of what matters can exist. Further, communication skills may benefit from explicit attention and treatment as a coherent whole in teacher training.
Newton, D. P., & Newton, L. D. (2001). Choosing and judging teachers: What Heads and student teachers think matters. Research in Education, 66(November), 54-64
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | 2001-11 |
Deposit Date | Jul 7, 2008 |
Publicly Available Date | Jul 7, 2008 |
Journal | Review of Research in Education |
Print ISSN | 0034-5237 |
Electronic ISSN | 2050-4608 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 66 |
Issue | November |
Pages | 54-64 |
Keywords | Initial teacher training, Communication skills, Teacher selection, Teacher effectiveness, Probationary year. |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1629831 |
Publisher URL | http://journals.mup.man.ac.uk/cgi-bin/MUP?COMval=article&key=RED/V66I0/660054.xml |
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