COLDWELL, Michael, MAXWELL, Brownwen and MCCAIG, Colin (2010). Cultures of career development: senior leaders' and early career teachers' views of career. In: BERA Annual Conference September 2010, Unviersity of Warwick, September 2010. 1-20. [Conference or Workshop Item]
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Abstract
Background
The TDA-funded NQT Quality Improvement Study is a 4 year, England-wide longitudinal, combined
methods study of both SLT and early career teachers (ECT's) views of key issues in the first few
years of teaching. The first two phases of the study focussed on entry into the NQT year and the NQT
year itself; the third phase looked at the second year of teaching. This paper utilises data from this
third phase - particularly case study interviews with teachers and SLT members - to consider the
issues of ECTs' careers and career development. The topic is of particular interest, since whilst the
picture in terms of teacher supply and retention in the profession overall is much improved in recent
years (for example, proportions of unfilled vacancies have declined according to DCSF data, and
Smithers and Robinson (2003, 2004, 2005) found that the retention issue tailed off and stabilised over
the period of their studies), it is clear that schools vary widely in their ability to recruit and retain staff
in their early careers. This paper aims to explore these variations in different contexts and school
cultures, to illuminate these differences.
Research Questions
This focus of this paper is to examine how SLT members in different contexts and cultures manage,
and view, career development for ECTs in their schools and to compare these views with those of
ECTs in the same schools.
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