New Teacher Foundation Series

Course Series

1) Early Career Educator Attrition and Retention

Understand the primary drivers behind why roughly 44% of new teachers leave the profession within their first five years. Look at what the data says about why teacher stay and what fuels teacher retention.

2) Teacher Self-Efficacy and Classroom Management

Study Dr. Albert Bandura’s social cognitive theory as it applies to teacher self-efficacy. Learn how proactive classroom management frameworks (e.g., routines, environmental staging, predictable transitions) directly increase a new teacher’s psychological safety and reduce instructional anxiety.

3) Adult Learning Theory in Professional Development

Analyze Malcolm Knowles’ principles of andragogy and job-embedded professional development. Learn why traditional, passive, single-day teacher workshops fail to translate into sustained classroom behavioral changes.

4) Proactive Boundary Setting and Role Conflict in Human Services

Learn the psychological concepts of role confusion and boundary distortion in new educators. Utilize frameworks that teach healthy professional boundary setting with parents, students, and administration to combat early onset emotional exhaustion.