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Table 1
Katz’s Model of Teacher Development
Stage 1
Survival
Stage 2
Consolidation
Stage 3
Renewal
Stage 4
Maturity
Number of
May last
By the end of
Three or four
More than
years teaching
throughout the
the first year
years of
four years of
first full year of
teaching
teaching
teaching
Overriding
Daily
Individual
Renewal and
Addressing the
concern
challenges
children and
refreshment
larger picture
problem
situations
Resources
On-site support
On-site
Conferences,
Seminars,
needed
and technical
assistance,
professional
institutes,
assistance
access to
associations,
courses,
specialists,
journals, visits
degree
colleague
to
programs,
advice,
demonstration
books,
consultants
projects
journals,
conferences
According to Katz (2005), in the first stage of survival a teacher is concerned with
getting through the day. This describes a beginning teacher who is trained but lacks
experience. According to Jalongo and Isenberg (2000), the question most permeating
practice is: “Am I cut out to be a teacher?” (p. 393). In the second stage, referred to as
consolidation, a teacher needs particular opportunities for growth to gain experience,
become committed to the field, and to be able to move on to the next stage, the stage of