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Kerry Cormier; Trudi Figueroa – PDS Partners: Bridging Research to Practice, 2024
Purpose: This practitioner-focused article highlights a collaborative, school-wide project at a PDS that showcased elementary students' strengths and talents. Based on the children's book, The Smart Cookie (John, 2021), teachers and the university professor-in-residence developed professional learning communities, which inspired the creation of a…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, College School Cooperation, Elementary Schools, Communities of Practice
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Doreen L. Mazzye; Joan Gujarati – PDS Partners: Bridging Research to Practice, 2024
Purpose: Research in this field is becoming increasingly clear that a teacher residency program (TRP) has a strong potential for developing effective teachers in a teacher preparation context. There are specific features of a TRP that yield results in the development of teachers. However, there are often barriers to full implementation of a TRP…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Persistence
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Erica Gilbertson; Amy Murphy; Sonia Janis; Kathy Thompson; Michael Harris – School-University Partnerships, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this action research study was to design, implement and evaluate interventions that enhanced the induction program for new teachers in a P-12 school district. At the outset, we hoped the study would provide new teacher support resulting in improved teaching practices, increased job satisfaction and/or increased teacher…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Program Design, Program Implementation, Program Evaluation
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Cosenza, Michael; Badiali, Bernard; Burns, Rebecca West; Coler, Cynthia; Goree, Krystal; Polly, Drew; Stoicovy, Donnan; Zenkov, Kristien – PDS Partners: Bridging Research to Practice, 2023
Purpose: The National Association for Professional Development Schools (NAPDS) recognizes that there is a tendency for the term "PDS" (Professional Development School) to be used as a catch-all for various relationships that constitute school--university partnership work. The intent of this NAPDS statement is to assert the essentials, or…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, Faculty Development, College School Cooperation, Partnerships in Education
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Polly, Drew; Holshouser, Kaitlyn O. – PDS Partners: Bridging Research to Practice, 2021
In this article the authors examine elementary education teacher candidates' reflections while participating in a senior course that included a book study on equity-based teaching and an intensive clinical practice experience which included teaching mathematics small groups. Findings indicate that candidates started to make progress towards…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Professional Development Schools, Program Implementation
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Shifflet, Rena; Hunt, Carolyn S. – Social Studies, 2019
The absence of social studies curriculum is a problem because it undermines the essential purposes of schooling: to prepare participatory, contributing members of a democratic society. In this article, we argue that integrating the literacy and social studies curricula is one meaningful way to support such civic-minded social studies instruction…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Social Studies, Preservice Teacher Education, Literacy Education
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McCall, Madelon; Rogers, Rachelle Meyer; Gasaway, Jeff; Veselka, Molly – School-University Partnerships, 2018
The impetus for this study occurred when the principal of a secondary Professional Development School (PDS) questioned the traditional teacher education model utilized by the university partner. This principal asked the university to consider a model that better utilized both the teacher candidate and supervising teacher collaboratively to promote…
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Teacher Education Programs, Professional Development Schools, Faculty Development
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Brown, Gordon; Shaklee, Beverly – School-University Partnerships, 2014
This article attempts to describe the creation and implementation of the first Professional Development School (PDS) model of teacher education in Panama. The authors set the context within brief histories of international education and PDSs and provide operational definitions of the critical terminology. To be sure, the scope and scale of the…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, Developing Nations, Teacher Education Programs, Program Descriptions
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Burn, Katharine; Mutton, Trevor – Oxford Review of Education, 2015
This review examines the kinds of relationship between research and practice that have been envisaged in programmes designed to provide opportunities for beginning teachers to engage in "research-informed clinical practice". Although the terminology varies, scope for inclusion is defined by an intention to facilitate and deepen the…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teacher Education, Clinical Supervision (of Teachers), Theory Practice Relationship
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Joshi, Arti; Eberly, Jody; Galen, Harlene – School-University Partnerships, 2013
In the 2007-2008 academic year, with an emphasis on three of the nine "Essentials" of a Professional Development School as delineated in NAPDS'policy statement, "What It Means to Be a Professional Development School,"the shared supervision model between a public college in the northeasternUnited States and a public school…
Descriptors: Supervisory Methods, Models, Educational Development, Transformational Leadership
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Miller, Susan P.; Mancl, Dustin B.; Ferreira, Daniell; Kennedy, Meghan – School-University Partnerships, 2012
The purpose of this article is to share information related to the emergence of mathematics renewal (i.e., enhancing teacher instruction) for struggling learners within an elementary PDS. Specifically, background related to the PDS and three phases of the renewal process are discussed (i.e., identification of needs, implementation of new…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Professional Development Schools, Elementary Schools, Mathematics Instruction
Bohan, Chara Haeussler, Ed.; Many, Joyce E., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011
Clinical Teacher Education focuses on how to build a school-university partnership network for clinical teacher education in urban school systems serving culturally and linguistically diverse populations. The labor intensive nature of professional development school work has resulted in research institutions being slow to fully adopt a clinical…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Urban Schools, Professional Development Schools, Action Research
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Marcum-Dietrich, Nanette I.; Dreon, Oliver; Mahoney, Tim – Teacher Education and Practice, 2013
The goal of this 4-year study was to investigate the implementation of a secondary science professional development school at a midsized, publicly funded 4-year institution with a large college of education. The study focuses on the preparation of secondary science teachers because improving STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math)…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Mentors, Program Effectiveness, Faculty Development
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Neapolitan, Jane E.; Levine, Marsha – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2011
Various approaches to the professional development school (PDS)--each designed for its respective audience, mission, and purpose for engagement--have shaped the professional development school effort during the past 25 years. Central to these approaches is improving teacher quality in the service of student learning. This provides direction for…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, Educational History, Educational Trends, Educational Principles
Beaty-O'Ferrall, Mary Ellen; Johnson, Francine W. – School-University Partnerships, 2010
In this article, we provide a description of a unique model of teaching and learning, developed at an urban professional development school. We focus on an intensive collaboration between members of a high school mathematics department and one university faculty member, who collaborated to raise student test scores and build solidarity as a team.…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, Team Training, Urban Schools, Teamwork
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