Teacher Career Cycle: Guidance for Teacher Professional Development

Author: Flesher (USA) / Christensen (USA) / Dong Limin / Gao Yaoming
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Teacher professional development runs through the entire career process. The authors spent 8 years, based on extensive collection of literature and interviews with over 160 primary and secondary school teachers, constructing a tool for understanding and promoting teacher professional development—the Teacher Career Cycle Model. Through this model, the authors divide teachers' careers into 8 stages, detailing the environmental influences and professional development needs of teachers at each stage, and proposing corresponding recommendations for motivational measures and support systems. The writing of this book differs from most current literature in the field of teacher professional development in China, adopting methods of situational description and case studies to vividly analyze teachers' careers. The book is highly operational. It provides strategies for primary and secondary school teachers and educational administrators to develop personalized professional development plans, and offers an analytical framework for researchers in the field of teacher professional development to continue their research.