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Lisa McDonagh; Emma C. Sanders – International Journal for Academic Development, 2025
As academic developers, we rely on colleagues' trust to a considerable degree. In this study, we explore how a person-centred approach to academic development, grounded in relational pedagogy, both relies upon and builds trust between staff and an academic development team. We discuss empirical data -- from colleagues with whom we have worked --…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, College Faculty, Trust (Psychology), Professional Personnel
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Tal Carmi – Journal of Teacher Education, 2024
Visions of teacher professionalism may shape common conceptualizations of high-quality mentoring, sometimes distortedly. Nevertheless, this relationship is often unnoticed, and studies rarely analyze mentor--teachers' work according to their interrelating visions. This multiple case study aimed at this literature gap. It examined the goals that…
Descriptors: Mentors, Faculty Development, Professionalism, Professional Identity
Mindy Jo Englett – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Because they offer feedback and communicate school administration goals to teachers, instructional coaches are generally seen as leaders. Balka et al. (2010) discovered that instructional coaches can model lessons or team-teach with teachers to achieve teaching goals. Due to its multifaceted nature, instructional coaching can improve teaching…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Coaching (Performance), Methods, Faculty Development
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Derek Thurber; Karen Bossen – To Improve the Academy, 2025
Despite its many benefits, curriculum review has yet to become a widespread practice in many areas of higher education. Previous research suggests that this is because of a lack of faculty time and expertise to conduct curriculum reviews independently. As such, this action research study builds on the existing literature to explore the utility of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Development, Higher Education, Research Universities
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Seonaigh A. MacPherson; Andrea D. Grabovac; Evan J. Collins; Tom Heah; Patricia Rockman; Diana Winston – Professional Development in Education, 2025
This study explores mindfulness-based teaching and learning (MBTL) as an emerging field of transprofessional practice spanning educational, organisational, and clinical professions. Recognising the need for a more robust set of transprofessional MBTL teacher competencies to serve this emerging specialisation, the authors developed and validated…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Teacher Competencies, Teacher Empowerment, Professional Autonomy
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Jennifer Green – Teacher Development, 2024
This exploratory case study examines the impact of a relational approach to instructional coaching on an elementary school teacher's development as an instructor of writing. During a year-long co-teaching project with the school literacy coach, the third-grade teacher shared stories of her complicated history with writing and self-perceived lack…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Writing Instruction, Coaching (Performance), Literacy
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Blakely Brown; Maja Pedersen; Jennifer Harrington; Annie Belcourt; Sweeney Windchief; Aaron Thomas; Ruth Plenty Sweetgrass-She Kills; Otakuye Conroy-Ben; Erik Brodt; Karletta Chief; Serra Hoagland; Michelle Johnson-Jennings; Jordan Lewis; Kirsten Green Mink; Kathryn C. A. Milligan-Myhre; Matthew Calhoun; Angela Ozburn; Vanessa Simonds; Anne Des Rosier Grant; Salena Hill; Ke Wu – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2024
Mentorship programs for Native American (NA) faculty in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields hold significant promise toward developing, recruiting, and retaining NA members of the professoriate. In 2018, a qualitative study was conducted that explored experiences, and mentoring relationships that enhanced or inhibited…
Descriptors: American Indians, College Faculty, STEM Education, STEM Careers
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Vikki Hill; Susan Orr; Emily Salines – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
This article investigates the role of an academic development programme associated with the implementation of newly designed assessment criteria in the UK-based Arts University. The introduction of new assessment criteria was accompanied by a pan-university academic staff development intervention. In a small-scale qualitative study, we researched…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evaluation Criteria, Art Education, Faculty Development
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James Blair; Lisa Kay; Lee Allison; Cassie Bradley – Journal of Faculty Development, 2024
Increasing career demands and expanding role expectations in a hyperconnected world batter higher education professionals, much like a tsunami of crashing waves toss a dingy at sea. To overcome the onslaught, professors are all but mandated to proactively build personal brands that deliver value propositions tightly aligning skills, expertise, and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Social Networks, Teacher Collaboration, Faculty College Relationship
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Helen Woodford; Jane Southcott; Maria Gindidis – Teacher Development, 2024
There is continuing uncertainty about the nature of teacher professional learning using social networking websites (SNWs) and how using these platforms influences teacher practice. Findings from the authors' small-scale, qualitative study in Australia into English teacher use of one global SNW for professional learning showed participant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teachers, Social Networks, Social Media
Gretchen Christine Price – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The interplay between teacher knowledge and pedagogical practices in diverse classroom contexts is situated in teachers' identities as theorizers, interpreters, and critics of their own practice. Understanding how professional learning is mediated in this context is critical to both the construction of new knowledge and the application of…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Student Diversity, Social Networks
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Zoe Robertson; Hannah Grainger Clemson; Kevin Brack; Rosemary Grady; Fraser McCallum – Scottish Educational Review, 2025
This paper discusses educator experiences of a Scottish university master's level study course designed to support the leading of professional learning. Scotland offers varied educator professional development opportunities, but these do not always transfer to pedagogy shifts and sustainable school evolution. For the research, course participants…
Descriptors: Universities, Activism, Graduate School Faculty, Foreign Countries
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Firm Faith Watson – Journal of Faculty Development, 2024
How do faculty developers orient their new faculty to the available university services, networking opportunities, and the requirements for teaching, research, and service? What examples exist to help faculty developers facilitate professional development opportunities in convenient and flexible learning environments? After the traditional…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty College Relationship, Faculty Development, Teacher Orientation
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Janna McClain; Katie Schrodt – Gender and Education, 2024
The authors utilize a duoethnographic approach to interrogate their positionality within a co-caring community of elementary school educators who participated in a week-long writers' workshop as part of their professional development. The teachers worked in a rural elementary school in the American South that served students who represent…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Authors, Workshops, Gender Issues
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Bret Eynon; Jonathan Iuzzini; H. Ray Keith; Eric Loepp; Nicole Weber – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2024
Recent research shows that professional learning is essential "equity infrastructure," the key to engaging front-line educators in the action-oriented partnerships needed to implement equity-focused practices with quality and at scale. The new, 2023 report examines professional learning at community colleges and Minority Serving…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Minority Serving Institutions, Equal Education, Partnerships in Education
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