A study in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis finds that an instructional coaching model adopted by several school districts has not improved teacher retention or student test scores. The study tracked the Instructor Coaching Program in a large urban district and found that scaling the program led to a decline in coaching quality as the…

Guided by the dual-shaping theory of institutions and culture, this comparative study examines the construction of professional identity among early childhood teachers in China and New Zealand, serving children aged 3–6 years in China and birth to school entry age in New Zealand, revealing how societal structures and cultural tradition’s mediate identity formation. (pdf)

Teachers’ interpretations play a central role in how pupils’ actions become defined as aggressive in everyday school life. This focused ethnography examines how behaviour perceived as aggressive emerges in Finnish primary schools, what interpretative frameworks teachers draw upon, and how these frameworks shape teachers’ interactional positioning. (pdf)

This article investigates how mentoring for newly qualified teachers (NQTs) is shaped as it travels from Norway’s national framework into municipal guidelines and into mentors’ everyday practice. (pdf)

Slik kan skoleforskningen komme lærerne til nytte.

Hvis lærere skal kunne tage ansvar for deres elever, skal de også have indflydelse på de beslutninger, der former deres arbejde, lyder en af hovedpointerne i en ny bog om afmagt i den offentlige sektor.

Som lärare är Jesper Svartz entusiastisk och strukturerad, och hans intresse för kemi och matematik smittar av sig på eleverna. Men att skolan blivit allt mer segregerad är ett problem, menar han.

Lärare lägger stor möda på sina frågor under utvecklingssamtalet, men missar helt vad kroppsspråket signalerar. Att titta på klockan kan sänka samtalet men att luta sig framåt skapar engagemang, säger Britt-Marie Bader, forskare vid Örebro universitet.

Sustaining teaching as a respected and attractive profession is more critical than ever, particularly as teachers' work becomes increasingly shaped by standardisation and accountability—conditions that have shown minimal positive impact while eroding the professional agency essential to job satisfaction. Drawing on a 15-year programme of research on the impact of an approach to professional development,…

Alongside the growing teacher supply crisis, there are widespread concerns about the mental health and well-being of teachers, leading to a growing interest in the concept of teacher resilience. In this article, we investigate the possibilities for promoting teacher resilience at the school level using a novel participatory approach. (pdf)