Careers in the Classroom: When Teaching Is More Than a Job (Professional Development and Practices)

By Sylvia Mei-ling Yee and Sylvia Yee Mei-Ling

Book Overview

This book explores the question of why some teachers stay in the classroom and others leave. The future quality of schools, the author explains, hinges on who will teach. Through interviews and surveys of teachers (both present and former) in a variety of settings - a poor, inner-city high school, an affluent suburban high school, and one in a working-class neighbourhood - this book examines the role of both intrinsic and extrinsic factors in the decision to remain in the profession. Teachers in each setting discuss training, job satisfaction, professional involvement, and workplace conditions that make teaching more than just a job.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807730378
• ISBN13: 9780807730379
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"