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New Teacher Isolation And Its Relationship To Teacher Attrition, David S. Sleppin
New Teacher Isolation And Its Relationship To Teacher Attrition, David S. Sleppin
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Studies suggest that many promising new teachers who experience isolation do not reach their full potential and may leave the teaching profession prematurely. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between the experience of isolation among new teachers and the potential for teacher attrition in an urban school district in the northeastern U.S. Grounded in constructivist theory, the phenomenological research design examined in-depth interview data collected from 8 new public elementary school teachers with three or less years experience. A coding procedure began by extracting key phrases and statements from the raw data and reduced information …