Troops to Teachers Update: Changing, but Still Pleasing Principals With High Teaching Quality. (March 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Owings, William A.; Kaplan, Leslie S.; Khrabrova, Iryna; Chappell, Shanan
• Is Part Of: NASSP bulletin. Volume 99:Number 1(2015:Jan.)
• Page Start: 70
• Page End: 98
• Publication Date: 2015-03
• Subjects: teacher effectiveness -- high-needs schools -- academic success for disadvantaged students -- Troops to Teachers; High schools -- Administration -- Periodicals; School management and organization -- United States -- Periodicals; High school principals -- United States -- Periodicals; High school principals -- Periodicals; Education, Secondary -- Periodicals; 373.12097305
• DOI: 10.1177/0192636515571933
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0192-6365

Abstract

Prior research on Troops to Teachers (TTT) affirms that TTTs are effective instructors likely to work in high-poverty, high-minority schools, teach high-demand subjects, use research-based instructional and classroom management practices linked with student achievement, and plan to stay in the profession. A nonexperimental, mixed method design incorporating quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis was used. A total of 4, 157 TTT completers and 517 administrators responded to surveys. The 2012-2013 follow-up study finds that TTTs are meeting most—but not all—the same high benchmarks. In addition, 92% of principals rate their TTTs as well-prepared to meet the needs of diverse learners in varied learning environments.