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This study investigated how Canadian beginning elementary teachers’ professional learning was influenced by their early learning experiences in school. Six teachers were observed and interviewed in classrooms five times across the first three years. Cross-case themes and individualized case studies were used to analyze results, highlighting the need for teacher education to support critical examination of early learning influences on professional priorities.","How Early Childhood Learning Influences Beginning Literacy Teachers’ Professional Learning  \nMonica McGlynn-Stewart  \nGeorge Brown College  \nAbstract  \nResearch has shown that teachers’ beliefs and personal experiences play a significant role in their professional decision-making and practice, including their experiences as school children. This research study examined how the professional learning of Canadian beginning elementary teachers was influenced by their own early learning experiences in school. Six teachers were observed and interviewed in their classrooms 5 times over the first 3 years of their teaching career. Case studies were developedfor each teacher and themes were explored across cases. The findings from this study suggest that pre-service and in-service teacher education programs need to provide teachers with opportunities to critically examine how their early learning experiences influence their professional learning experiences and priorities.  \nKeywords: teachers' lives; elementary teaching; professional development; professional learning  \nMonica McGlynn-Stewart is a Professor in the School of Early Childhood, George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario. She is the principal investigator of the SSHRC funded project Toys or Tools? Using Open-Ended Tablet Applications for Literacy Learning. Her research interests include teacher professional development, and literacy learning and teaching.  \n[Email:](Email: mmcglynnstewart@georgebrown.ca)[ ](Email: mmcglynnstewart@georgebrown.ca)[mmcglynnstewart@georgebrown.ca](Email: mmcglynnstewart@georgebrown.ca)  \nIntroduction  \nThis paper reports on a research study that examined how the professional practice of six beginning elementary teachers in Ontario, Canada was influenced by their early childhood learning. The participants’ childhood learning and elementary teaching were explored to examine the ways in which their early learning experiences as pupils influenced their pre-service and in-service education and their resultant practices. The participants’ early learning experiences varied greatly as did the ways in which those experiences intersected with their professional learning and teaching practice. The purpose of the study was to explore how the early learning experiences of the beginning teachers influenced their teaching practice. Specifically, this paper looks at how participants’ early learning experiences intersected with their formal and informal professional development in the area of literacy  \n.  \nLiterature Review  \nTeachers around the world begin their careers with a lifetime of memories of their own schooling. However, there has been limited research published on the degree to which teachers’ own experiences as school children influence their teaching careers, specifically in the area of professional development. Considerable research has shown that teachers’ beliefs and personal experiences play a significant role in their professional decision-making and practice. Teachers’ beliefs about pedagogical issues and themselves as teachers are ongoing subjects for research (Lamonte & Engels, 2010; Snider & Roehl, 2007, Uden, Ritzen & Pieters, 2014) . 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