A Better Beginning: Supporting Our Newly Hired Science Teachers.- Looking at Newly Hired Science Teachers.- The First Five Years: What the 2012 National Survey of Science and Mathematics Education Reveals about Novice Science Teachers and Their Teaching.- Perceived Support and Retention of First Year Secondary Science Teachers.- Building Strong Foundations: Suggestions for Newly Hired Science Teachers and Coaches.- Newly Hired Science Teacher Development.- Exploring Beginning Teachers’ Content Knowledge.- Teaching Chemistry with a Biology Degree: Crosscutting Concepts as Boundary Objects.- Plugging the ‘Leaky Bucket’ of Early Career Science Teacher Attrition through the Development of Professional Vision.- Creating Awareness of Science Teacher Identity: The Importance of Who Newly Hired Teachers of Science Are Expected to Be and Who They Become during Induction.- Supporting Newly Hired Science Teachers.- Teach to Learn: An Example of an Early Career Teacher Development Program.- Moving towards Comprehensive Induction Systems for New Teachers of Science through the Use of Technology Enhanced Communities of Practice.- Professional Learning Community-Based Induction: Creating Support for New Teachers of Science.- Establishing Professional Practice through a New Teacher Support Group.- Creating Supports for the Development of High-Leverage Teaching Practices in Secondary Science Classrooms: From Preparation through Induction.- Supporting Ambitious Instruction by Beginning Teachers with Specialized Tools and Practices.- Connecting Research to Practice for Better Beginnings: Drawing upon What We Know to Enhance the Teaching and Learning of Newly Hired Science Teachers.- Contributors.- Index.