4 Social Media as Modalities for Accessing Induction Supports

I approached the fourth research question, “How, if at all, do new teachers use social media as a modality to access supports for professional learning during induction?,” by coding each mention of an induction support with the modality through which it was accessed. I coded these in broad terms: offline, online graduate school (because each of the interview participants was enrolled in such a degree program), and social media. I focus my attention here on offline and social media modalities.