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Urban school teacher turnover in the United Stateshas been a critical issue receiving increasingattention of teacher educators, schooladministrators and policy makers nationwide. To meetthe demand of highly qualified urban schoolteachers, an urban immersion teacher preparation(UITP) program has emerged that employs theProfessional Development School model and isdesigned to prepare prospective urban schoolteachers through an alternative teachercertification route. This book, using Bandura ssocial cognitive theory of self-efficacy as theconceptual framework in the process of dataanalysis, explores urban school teachers understanding of the ways in which their experiencesin the UITP program and in urban school workplaceinfluence their perceived self-efficacy, persistenceand institutional commitment as urban schoolteachers. The work should be useful for teachereducators, school administrators, policy makers andanyone else who are concerned about urban schoolteacher preparation, recruitment and retention.

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• Full title: Why Is the Bucket Leaking? Influential Factors on the Self-Efficacy, Persistence and Institutional Commitment of Urban School Teachers
• Author: Yijie Zhao
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176
• EAN: 9783639084184
• ISBN: 3639084187
• ID: 06817606
• Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.
• Weight: 268 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. September 2008

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