Resisting plateauing: Four veteran teachers' stories

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 770-778

  Meister, Denise G ^a   Ahrens, Patricia ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Career stages; Plateauing; Professional development; Qualitative research; Teacher resiliency

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952442442     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2011.01.002     Document Type: Article

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