School environments impact student behaviours and share specific goals, and they develop shared understandings through perceptions and experiences which demonstrate a specific culture in a school community (Shields 2002). Teacher support needs vary, but the adequacy of the support according to teacher needs will strongly influence whether teachers simply cope or manage their out-of-field teaching load. The challenge for out-of-field teachers, then, is how to manage to develop in-depth knowledge of the specific curriculum and how to contribute to planning and evaluating the fit-for-context/fit-for-purpose aspects of the curriculum and the school context. Supporting out-of-field teachers entails an in-depth look at the meaning of out-of-field teaching for enacting a specific curriculum and of the in-school context as a whole, with a specific focus on communication, collaboration and cooperation within the wider school community.
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Du Plessis, A. E., Hobbs, L., Luft, J. A., & Vale, C. (2019). The out-of-field teacher in context: The impact of the school context and environment. In Examining the Phenomenon of “Teaching Out-of-field?”: International Perspectives on Teaching as a Non-specialist (pp. 217–242). Springer Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3366-8_9
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