Newly Hired Teachers of Science [electronic resource] : A Better Beginning / edited by Julie A. Luft, Shannon L. Dubois.

A Better Beginning: Supporting Our Newly Hired Science Teachers -- Looking at Newly Hired Science Teachers -- The First Five Years: What the 2012 National Survey of Science and Mathematics Education Reveals about Novice Science Teachers and Their Teaching -- Perceived Support and Retention of First Year Secondary Science Teachers -- Building Strong Foundations: Suggestions for Newly Hired Science Teachers and Coaches -- Newly Hired Science Teacher Development -- Exploring Beginning Teachers' Content Knowledge -- Teaching Chemistry with a Biology Degree: Crosscutting Concepts as Boundary Objects -- Plugging the 'Leaky Bucket' of Early Career Science Teacher Attrition through the Development of Professional Vision -- Creating Awareness of Science Teacher Identity: The Importance of Who Newly Hired Teachers of Science Are Expected to Be and Who They Become during Induction -- Supporting Newly Hired Science Teachers -- Teach to Learn: An Example of an Early Career Teacher Development Program -- Moving towards Comprehensive Induction Systems for New Teachers of Science through the Use of Technology Enhanced Communities of Practice -- Professional Learning Community-Based Induction: Creating Support for New Teachers of Science -- Establishing Professional Practice through a New Teacher Support Group -- Creating Supports for the Development of High-Leverage Teaching Practices in Secondary Science Classrooms: From Preparation through Induction -- Supporting Ambitious Instruction by Beginning Teachers with Specialized Tools and Practices -- Connecting Research to Practice for Better Beginnings: Drawing upon What We Know to Enhance the Teaching and Learning of Newly Hired Science Teachers -- Contributors -- Index.