Teachers resilience: A necessary condition for effectiveness

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1302-1316

  Gu, Qing ^a   Day, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Professional life phases; Quality retention; Self efficacy; Teacher commitment; Teacher effectiveness; Teacher resilience

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848813612     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2006.06.006     Document Type: Article

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