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What Rural Superintendents in Ohio Value in New Teacher Candidates

Smith, Richard Donnell, Jr.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ashland1333119162

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2012, Doctor of Education, Ashland University, College of Education.
The purpose of this study was to have a better understanding of what rural superintendents are looking for in new first-year teachers, and to provide that information to future teaching candidates and colleges of education that are preparing teachers for the 21st Century classroom. Over the past twenty years, superintendents have not changed in what they value in new teachers. Rural superintendents ranked these characteristics of new teacher applicants as most important in this order: self-motivated, certification, communication skills, works well with others, and a tie among strong teaching skills, cooperative, and enthusiastic. When teacher applicant skills were grouped into personal skills and professional skills, rural superintendents gave statistically significantly higher ratings to the personal skills. Rural superintendents in Ohio value the principal's involvement and the interviews as the most important part of the district hiring process. Rural superintendents feel there are gaps in the partnership between school districts and colleges of education, and they desire to see colleges provide more preparation with new teacher candidates in teaching experiences, student teaching, classroom management, communication skills, common core knowledge, and assessment knowledge.
Carla Edlefson, PhD (Committee Chair)
Ann Shelly, PhD (Committee Co-Chair)
Larry Cook, PhD (Committee Member)
Harold Wilson, PhD (Committee Member)
127 p.
Education; Educational Leadership
teacher candidates; hiring; teacher selection; teacher characteristics; rural education; rural superintendents; new teachers; first-year teachers

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  • Smith, Jr., R. D. (2012). What Rural Superintendents in Ohio Value in New Teacher Candidates [Doctoral dissertation, Ashland University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ashland1333119162

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Smith, Jr., Richard. What Rural Superintendents in Ohio Value in New Teacher Candidates. 2012. Ashland University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ashland1333119162.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Smith, Jr., Richard. "What Rural Superintendents in Ohio Value in New Teacher Candidates." Doctoral dissertation, Ashland University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ashland1333119162

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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© 2012, some rights reserved.Creative Commons License What Rural Superintendents in Ohio Value in New Teacher Candidates by Richard Donnell Smith Jr. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
This open access ETD is published by Ashland University and OhioLINK.