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Van der Klink, Marcel; Kools, Quinta; Avissar, Gilada; White, Simone; Sakata, Tetsuhito – Professional Development in Education, 2017
The attention being devoted to teacher educators as professionals and their professional development is unquestionably increasing. Whilst much of that attention is being directed at teacher educators in different countries, international comparisons have been quite rare to date. The research question addressed in this study was: "Do…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Educators, International Studies, Comparative Analysis
Evans, Linda – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2017
In the UK the title "professor" is generally applied only to the most senior academics--equivalent to North American full professors--and whom anecdotal evidence indicates to be often unprepared for the increasingly expansive academic leadership roles that they are expected to fulfil. The study reported in this paper was directed at…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Instructional Leadership, Leadership Role, Foreign Countries
Klemp, Torunn; Nilssen, Vivi – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2017
This article presents and discusses experiences from an intervention project in Norwegian teacher education focusing on a triadic collaboration between student teachers, mentors and lecturers. The aim of the project was to establish a written, digital meeting place supporting the student teachers' professional development. The question explored in…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Student Teacher Attitudes, Student Teachers, Student Teaching
Bouwma-Gearhart, Jana L.; Ivanovitch, John D.; Aster, Ellen M.; Bouwma, Andrew M. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2018
This paper attends to challenges for postsecondary science education improvement initiatives, notably understanding and responding to the realities guiding educators' teaching practices. We explored 16 postsecondary biology educators' instructional planning, providing novel insights into why educators select certain strategies over others,…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Teachers, Postsecondary Education, Faculty Development
Cantillon, P.; D'Eath, M.; De Grave, W.; Dornan, T. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2016
There is widespread acceptance that clinical educators should be trained to teach, but faculty development for clinicians is undermined by poor attendance and inadequate learning transfer. As a result there has been growing interest in situating teacher development initiatives in clinical workplaces. The relationship between becoming a teacher and…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Workplace Learning, Qualitative Research, Communities of Practice
Beaton, Fran – International Journal for Academic Development, 2017
Part-time teachers form a growing proportion of the global Higher Education (HE) workforce. Their backgrounds can vary from Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) teaching for the first time, to practitioners bringing workplace experience into HE and sessional teachers, all with differing professional development needs. This paper builds on previous…
Descriptors: Part Time Faculty, College Faculty, Faculty Development, Case Studies
Baker, John; Chaseling, Marilyn; Boyd, William; Shipway, Bradley – Professional Development in Education, 2018
A Performance and Development Framework has been introduced by the New South Wales Department of Education, the largest provider of schooling in Australia, during a period of unparalleled reform. Engagement with the Framework is mandatory for all the Department's teachers, and is linked to improving student outcomes through enhanced teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development, Interviews, Teaching Experience
Thomson, Kate – International Journal for Academic Development, 2015
Engaging in informal activities, like conversations with colleagues, is one way that professionals can learn within workplace contexts. Informal conversations present opportunities for academics to learn about teaching. The current study investigated academics' experience of informal conversations, and their experience of the relations between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Semi Structured Interviews, Grounded Theory
Kowalczuk-Waledziak, Marta; Lopes, Amélia; Menezes, Isabel; Tormenta, Nuna – Educational Research, 2017
Background and purpose: In recent years, there has been a growth in international studies about the impact of different types of professional development programmes for teachers. However, few studies have directly addressed the role of higher research degrees, such as a doctorate, as a strategy for teachers' professional development, and even…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Motivation, Doctoral Degrees, Faculty Development
Cai, Li; Hall, Christine – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2016
This article explores the experiences of non-Chinese academic staff working on an international branch campus in China. The article presents findings from an interview study that explored the expectations of expatriate staff and what motivated them to want to work abroad. The second part of the article reports on whether and how these expectations…
Descriptors: Foreign Nationals, College Faculty, Marketing, Foreign Countries
Becuwe, Heleen; Tondeur, Jo; Pareja Roblin, Natalie; Thys, Jeroen; Castelein, Els – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2016
The goal of the current study was to explore the role and importance of the facilitator in teacher design teams. The study took place in the context of a pre-service teacher education institution in Belgium, where teacher design teams were set up to facilitate the professional development of teacher educators. The findings from focus-group…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Facilitators (Individuals), Role, Preservice Teacher Education
Tack, Hanne; Vanderlinde, Ruben – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2014
Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, the need for teacher educators'--or those who teach the teachers--professional development became increasingly recognised in both policy and research literature. In this respect, a growing body of publications highly stress the teacher educators' task of engaging in research and becoming a teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Faculty Development, Classification, Researchers
Blumberg, Phyllis – College Teaching, 2016
This article describes a study of 58 faculty members using a practical method for assessing the prevalence of learner-centered practices through individual interviews and rating their described practices with published rubrics. Analysis of the interviews found that the same faculty member might use more learner-centered practices in one course and…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teaching Methods, Student Centered Curriculum, Scoring Rubrics
De Rijdt, Catherine; Dochy, Filip; Bamelis, Sofie; van der Vleuten, Cees – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2016
Educational institutions offer diverse staff development programmes to allow staff members to keep up with educational innovations and to guarantee educational quality. The current study investigates by means of a survey and semi-structured interviews whether the teacher perceives staff development as a management model, a shop-floor model or a…
Descriptors: Staff Development, College Faculty, Teacher Surveys, Faculty Development
McMillan, Wendy; Gordon, Natalie – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
This study examined how one academic framed the enablements and constraints to her project of being and becoming an academic. Complexity facilitated reflection in that it provided a visual representation of data, which was used to generate a concept map, which represented as equal all the component parts of her landscape. Five spaces with…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Concept Mapping, Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development