Teachers Matter: Connecting Lives, Work and Effectiveness

Day, C., Sammons, P., Stobart, G., Kington, A. and Gu, Q. (2007). Teachers Matter: Connecting Lives, Work and Effectiveness. Berkshire: Open University Press.

Key points:
(1) importance of career development

• 6 professional life phases:
• 0-3 commitment: support and challenge
• 4-7 identity and efficacy in classroom
• 8-15 managing changes in role and identity: growing tensions and transitions
• 16-23 work-life tensions: challenges to motivation and commitment
  

(2) relationships between school leadership, culture and teachers' lives
(3) maintaining a work-life balance, identity and well-being
(4) connection between commitment, resilience and effectiveness in he classroom

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