From Trainee to Teacher - Reflective Practice for Novice Teachers - Thomas S.C. Farrell
Teaching: A Profession that Eats its Young
From Trainee to Teacher - Reflective Practice for Novice Teachers - Thomas S.C. Farrell
Thomas S.C. Farrell [+]
Brock University
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Thomas S.C. Farrell is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Brock University, Canada. His professional interests include Reflective Practice, and Language Teacher Education & Development. He has published widely and has presented at major conferences worldwide on these topics. His webpage is: www.reflectiveinquiry.ca
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Chapter 1 makes the case for the importance of focusing on novice teachers as we are a profession that tends to eat its young. The chapter then outlines what can be done about the lack of information about what novice ESL teachers actually experience during their first year by laying the group for subsequent chapters that report on the experiences of a group of three novice ESL teachers in Canada during their first year.