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Concerns of Teachers: A Developmental Conceptualization
The concerns of teachers, i. e. the problems and tasks to which they address themselves, are posited to occur in three phases. Pre-teaching concerns are amorphous or not related to teaching. Early teaching concerns focus on self or self protection and may be overt or covert. Late concerns focus on pupils and outcomes of teaching. Eleven studies are reviewed which support this conceptualization. It is hypothesized that these phases are sequential and hierarchical. It is proposed that research on teaching consider concern phases and that teacher preparation experiences be selected and ordered according to systematically surveyed teacher concerns in teacher populations served
Article, 1969