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Silva, Diane Yendol – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2003
The purpose of this study is to explore the use of triad journaling as a collaborative tool for enhancing teaching and learning in a professional development school context. This study employed descriptive case study methodology (Merriam, 1998) in an effort to capture the content, complexity, and interactive nature of the participants' journaling.…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, Professional Development, Case Studies, Discourse Communities
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Silva, Diane Yendol; Dana, Nancy Fichtman – Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 2001
Presents a four-phase, theoretically based model for supervision co-constructed and shared by members of a professional-development school community and influenced by four bodies of literature. The four phases include building of readiness, directed supervision, reflective supervision, and teacher inquiry. Benefits of collaborative supervision are…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Inquiry, Models
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Silva, Diane Yendol; Gimbert, Belinda G. – International Journal of Social Education, 2001
Demonstrates how teacher inquiry offers a way to study and implement character education by exploring teacher inquiry projects at a Professional Development School. Presents background information and describes four different types of inquiry. Provides examples of how character education principles connect with teacher inquiry. (CMK)
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Practices, Elementary Education, Grade 3
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Snow-Gerono, Jennifer L.; Dana, Nancy Fichtman; Silva, Diane Yendol – Professional Educator, 2001
Investigated the experiences of first-year teachers who learned to teach in a Professional Development School and completed an inquiry-oriented, full-year internship. Interviews conducted during the internship and first teaching years indicated that these teachers surpassed the traditional survival stage of novice teachers, had strongly developed…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, College School Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
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Dana, Nancy Fichtman; Silva, Diane Yendol; Snow-Gerono, Jennifer – Teacher Education and Practice, 2002
Explores the evolution of inquiry into a Professional Development School (PDS) context. Teacher educators hoped to cultivate inquiry as a stance into the PDS culture. This required time for teachers to understand inquiry and embrace it as a powerful tool for reflective teaching and educational change. Mentor teachers gained space to understand…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
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Dana, Nancy Fitchman; Silva, Diane Yendol; Gimbert, Belinda; Nolan, Jim, Jr.; Zembal-Saul, Carla; Tzur, Ron; Mule, Lucy; Sanders, Lynne – Action in Teacher Education, 2001
Demonstrates how analyzing the evolution of long-term Professional Development School (PDS) problems can serve as indicators of PDS growth, identifying three persistent problems (building trust and relationships between university and school personnel, reconceptualizing existing coursework to fit in the PDS context, and making inquiry a central…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education