CHAPTER 6: Service-Learning and Preinternship Teacher Sense of Efficacy: A Comparison of Two Designs

Twenty-five percent of teachers in the United States are said to leave the profession within the first 2 years of teaching, and 40% leave within 5 years because they perceive that they are underprepared for the daily classroom and lack confidence to address their internalized shortcomings (Grant & Gillett, 2006). Based on these percentages, it becomes strikingly apparent that if we want new teachers to address the tremendous diversity in the classroom, appropriately challenge students and facilitate high achievement, and commit to the teaching profession, the schools, and their students, they must enter the teaching profession with a strong sense of teacher efficacy.