The Real World and the Classroom: Second-Career Teachers

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Change‐of‐career secondary teachers: motivations, expectations and intentions (2008, background): “Countering concerns that older teachers may be less likely to adopt pedagogical reform practices, Chambers’ (2002) study noted that those change-ofcareer teachers who were able to draw on their previous work experience were more likely to act as effective agents of change in their schools.”
Crossing horizons: Continuity and change during second-career teachers’ entry into teaching (2008, background): “Chambers (2002) described second-career changers perceiving themselves as different from first-career teachers in ‘‘a subtle but significant way’’.”