Open AccessBuilding Resilience in New and Beginning Teachers: Contributions of School Librarians
Author(s) -
Rita Reinsel Soulen,
Lois D. Wine
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
school libraries worldwide
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2816-3788
pISSN - 1023-9391
DOI - 10.29173/slw8230
Subject(s) - school teachers , focus group , empathy , psychology , pedagogy , psychological resilience , school library , resilience (materials science) , qualitative research , mathematics education , medical education , sociology , library science , medicine , social psychology , social science , physics , anthropology , computer science , thermodynamics
Building beginning teachers’ resilience may contribute to increasing teacher retention in the early years, in turn improving student academic achievement. School librarians contribute to developing teaching skills by mentoring new teachers. This qualitative study of first to third year teachers and school librarians investigated the contributions that school librarians made in building resilience of beginning teachers through a focus group of new teachers and interviews of school librarians. Findings show that school librarians may contribute to early career teacher resilience, especially during the first days of school, by encouraging perseverance, providing nourishment and empathy, and offering the library as a resource, especially for research.