@article{ref1,
title=""Teaching is a lot more than just showing up to class and grading assignments": preparing middle-level teachers for longevity in the profession",
journal="Middle school journal",
year="2017",
author="Overschelde, James P. Van and Saunders, Jane M. and Ash, Gwynne Ellen",
volume="48",
number="5",
pages="28-38",
abstract="The university's teacher preparation program has implemented and continually refined a professional development school program, with extended university-school relationships in its middle-level certification program. This program offers dialogue, targeted learning activities, and intensive field-based experiences to help ease preservice teachers from student identity to teacher identity. Preservice teachers spend several semesters working under the guidance of practicing middle-level teachers before assuming control of their own classrooms, mitigating potential reality shock and improving middle-level teacher retention. This program has led to higher than average 5-year retention rates for middle-level teachers. Recommendations for other teacher preparation programs are included.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0094-0771",
doi="10.1080/00940771.2017.1368319",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00940771.2017.1368319"
}