Beginning teaching stories from the classroom provides valuable source material to inform teacher education practices the authors draw on more than 20 years of research on the professional learning retention and attrition of beginning teachers to provide evocative illustrations of the challenges and successes that occur in the early years of teaching the compelling and coherent narratives will appeal not only to student and graduate teachers but also to program designers coaches and . Beginning teaching stories from the classroom provides valuable source material to inform teacher education practices the authors draw on more than 20 years of research on the professional . Beginning teaching stories from the classroom provides valuable source material to inform teacher education practices the authors draw on more than 20 years of research on the professional learning retention and attrition of beginning teachers to provide evocative illustrations of the challenges and successes that occur in the early years of teaching the compelling and coherent narratives will appeal not only to student and graduate teachers but also to program designers coaches and . Beginning teaching stories from the classroom the experiences of the first years of new teachersa professional lives are critical to their decisions about embracing or leaving the teaching profession writ large these experiences have the potential to either underpin or undermine the growth and development of the teaching profession this book offers a research based account of beginning