Career Development and Professional Attrition of Novice ESL Teachers of Adults
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Abstract
Research and development in language teacher education and, more recently, teacher accreditation has had enormous impact on the professional lives of ESL teachers in Canada. There has been less interest, however, in examining the ca- reer development and employment experiences of accredited ESL teachers as they transition from TESL programs to ESL classrooms. In this article, we report on a study examining this issue for ESL teachers of adults in Ontario, in which 147 ESL teachers responded to a survey and a select group participated in follow-up interviews. The data were collected for a broader study investigating the link between teacher education and teaching efficacy of novice ESL teachers. Quantita- tive analysis of the survey data revealed the professional backgrounds and career development of recently accredited ESL teachers in Ontario. Qualitative data analysis revealed concerns with employment in the first years of practice. The findings suggested a high risk of attrition for novice ESL teachers and highlighted the impact of current teacher education programs and the professional landscape of ESL teaching on their career development. We discuss the implications of these findings for TESL institutions, accreditation bodies, and ESL teachers.La recherche et le développement visant la formation des enseignants de langue et, plus récemment, l’accréditation des enseignants, ont eu un énorme impact sur la vie professionnelle des enseignants d’ALS au Canada. Toutefois, on a moins porté attention au développement professionnel et aux expériences de travail d’enseignants d’ALS accrédités lors de leur transition des programmes de TESL vers les salles de classe d’ALS. Dans cet article, nous rendons compte d’une étude pendant laquelle 147 enseignants d’ALS aux adultes en Ontario ont répondu à une enquête visant ce sujet et un groupe d’enseignants sélectionnés ont participé à des entrevues de suivi. Les données ont été recueillies pour une étude plus vaste portant sur le lien entre la formation des enseignants et l’efficacité des enseignants d’ALS en début de carrière. Une analyse quantitative des données de l’enquête a fait ressortir le développement et les antécédents professionnels d’enseignants d’ALS récemment accrédités en Ontario. L’analyse a également révélé des préoc- cupations quant à l’emploi pendant les premières années de pratique. Les résultats indiquent un risque élevé d’attrition chez les enseignants débutants et soulignent l’impact des programmes actuels de formation des enseignants et du milieu pro- fessionnel de l’enseignement de l’ALS sur le développement de leur carrière.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".