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Choosing and judging teachers: What Heads and student teachers think matters

Newton, Douglas P.; Newton, Lynn D.

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Douglas P. Newton

Lynn D. Newton



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Abstract

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.

Citation

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
Publication Date 2001-11
Deposit Date Jul 7, 2008
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Review of Research in Education
Print ISSN 0034-5237
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.
Publisher URL http://journals.mup.man.ac.uk/cgi-bin/MUP?COMval=article&key=RED/V66I0/660054.xml

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