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Stollman, Saskia; Meirink, Jacobiene; Westenberg, Michiel; Van Driel, Jan – Professional Development in Education, 2022
To better align teacher learning with teachers' learning needs, teachers' sense-making of an innovation during which teachers experimented with differentiated instruction was studied during two school years. Using answers to a questionnaire, 15 teachers' sense-making processes were characterised by three types of search for meaning: assimilation,…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Individualized Instruction, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Frida Grimm – Professional Development in Education, 2024
Teacher leaders are increasingly leading learning conversations in professional learning communities (PLCs) in schools in several parts of the world today, but there is little empirical knowledge of teacher leadership in PLC conversations. Thus, this article aims to enhance such knowledge, particularly the development of teacher leadership in PLC…
Descriptors: Teacher Improvement, Teacher Leadership, Communities of Practice, Foreign Countries
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Walton, Elizabeth; Carrington, Suzanne; Saggers, Beth; Edwards, Chris; Kimani, Wacango – Professional Development in Education, 2022
Implementing inclusive education requires on-going commitment to teachers' professional learning. One way of implementing professional learning is to develop learning communities based on Lave and Wenger's ideas of situated learning and learning as social practice. Learning communities, drawing on models of Professional Learning Communities and…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Communities of Practice, Faculty Development, Models
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Long, Taotao; Zhao, Guoqing; Yang, Xuanyang; Zhao, Rongchi; Chen, Qianqian – Professional Development in Education, 2021
This study aims at exploring the influence of The "Alliance of Thinking Schools," a multi-regional, researcher-practitioner partnered teachers' "professional learning community" (PLC) on the teaching of thinking in China, on bridging teachers' "belief-action gap." Specifically, this study aims to investigate the…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Factor Analysis, Teacher Attitudes
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Chang, Sharon – Professional Development in Education, 2021
The Change Laboratory methodology offers the potential to support expansive learning in preservice bilingual teacher education. This qualitative case study examines how ten preservice Chinese and Korean bilingual teachers, who participated in a Change Laboratory intervention, engaged one of the major Change Laboratory instruments, the four-field…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Bilingual Teachers, Korean, Preservice Teacher Education