Virtual Coaching for Novice Teachers

A virtual appreciative coaching and mentoring programme to support novice nurse researchers in Africa

The conventional model of nurse research education and support has shown itself to be deficient in the face of the rapidly changing health care and educational environments. This is more so in the open distance learning (ODL) context where institutions embark on cross border initiatives to build the capacity of novice nurse researchers. The purpose of this study was to develop a virtual appreci...

3 Characteristics of Expert and Novice Teachers

In the previous chapter, I reviewed three major theories of expertise and their delineation of the characteristics of experts across skills and disciplines. In this chapter, I shall examine the characteristics of novice and expert teachers that have been identified in the literature on teaching expertise and see to what extent they share the characteristics of novices and experts in other profe...

Novice Teachers’ Attention to Student Thinking

Implementation of a Smart Lab for Teachers of Novice Programmers

Communication between students and their instructors in the lab is a limited commodity. With limited access to the tutor, students can sometimes spend a long time trying to fix simple errors, continually revisiting and repeating the same errors. Instructors, on the other hand, find themselves explaining the same mistakes over and over again. It is often not clear to them how well individual stu...

Working with Novice Teachers: Challenges for Professional Development

This study examined the classroom practice and beliefs of two novice teachers, Anne and Rachel, during their first year of teaching and during the first year of their involvement in Project PRIME, a district-wide professional development project. The research also analysed the challenges faced by the novice teachers and the professional developer who worked with them. Using accounts of practice...