Progress through the Teacher Pipeline: 1992-93 College Graduates and Elementary/Secondary School Teaching as of 1997;Statistical analysis rept

摘要

This report focuses on the academic characteristics and preparation for teaching of those who took various steps toward teaching and is organized by a conceptual 'teacher pipeline' that represents a teacher's career. The pipeline includes preparatory activities-considering teaching, student teaching as an undergraduate, becoming certified to teach, applying for teaching jobs-as well as teaching experiences and plans for teaching in the future. The report first examines the rate at which graduates with varying demographic and academic characteristic entered the teacher pipeline and continues by describing the steps that pipeline entrants took toward teaching and the experiences of those who taught. The final section discusses both the rate at which those who had taught since completing the 1992-93 degree had stopped teaching in the future.