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Christy Thomas; Jennette Koehn; Jeff Turner – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2024
Given the substantial impact school leaders have on school improvement, the imperative for continuous professional learning for leaders is evident. In this two-year action research study, researchers collaborated with a school division, forming a research-practice partnership, to design and explore a collaborative professional learning and…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Coaching (Performance), Foreign Countries, Capacity Building
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Friesen, Sharon Linda – Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 2022
Purpose: This paper is a thinking piece that examines, from the viewpoint of a Canadian pracademic, working through two definitions of pracademic, a collaborative relationship between academics and practitioners and a person engaged as a practitioner and researcher. Two aspects of a pracademics scholarship is discussed, wide awakeness and praxis.…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Theory Practice Relationship, Social Change, Cooperation
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Legare, France; Borduas, Francine; MacLeod, Tanya; Sketris, Ingrid; Campbell, Barbara; Jacques, Andre – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2011
Continuing professional development (CPD) is an important vehicle for knowledge translation (KT); however, selecting CPD strategies that will impact health professionals' behavior and improve patient outcomes is complex. In response, we, KT researchers and CPD knowledge users, have recently formed a partnership known as the National Network for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Continuing Education, Health Personnel, Professional Development
Levin, Ben – Phi Delta Kappan, 2009
Unlike every other developed country, Canada has had no national or pan-Canadian agency that works to support and promote research in education, and especially to build connections between research, policy, and practice. Canada has a national granting council that funds academic research in all fields, including education (the Social Sciences and…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship
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Buzza, Dawn; Kotsopoulos, Donna; Mueller, Julie; Johnston, Megan – McGill Journal of Education, 2010
We examined the effectiveness of a professional development school model of teacher education in Canada. Teacher education candidates responded positively to program features related to sustained participation and collaboration in school communities throughout the year. Their efficacy beliefs about developing professional knowledge were most…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Professional Development Schools, Models
Volante, Louis; Beckett, Danielle – Canadian Journal of Education, 2011
Twenty teachers working in elementary and secondary schools were interviewed from 2 school districts in southern Ontario, Canada about their understanding and use of particular formative assessment strategies. Analysis of the interviews followed a constant comparison method and revealed a variety of emerging themes. Results suggested an imbalance…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Wassermann, Selma – Phi Delta Kappan, 2009
It is 40-plus years since the upstart Professional Development Program was initiated at Simon Fraser University. Among its many audacious innovations, the program offered opportunities for practicing teachers to play leading roles in the professional development of student teachers. Seconded (temporarily released) to the university for two-year…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Student Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Foreign Countries
Beckett, Danielle; Volante, Louis; Drake, Susan – Education Canada, 2010
Despite clear evidence that formative assessment creates vantage points throughout the teaching-learning cycle for both teachers and students, research suggests that teachers are not taking advantage of the full cadre of formative assessment strategies available to them--particularly those that have been associated with improved student learning…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), School Culture, Formative Evaluation, Questioning Techniques
Liljedahl, Peter, Ed.; Oesterle, Susan, Ed.; Allan, Darien, Ed. – Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group, 2012
This submission contains the Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group (CMESG), held at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's, Newfoundland. The CMESG is a group of mathematicians and mathematics educators who meet annually to discuss mathematics education issues at all levels of learning.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conference Papers, Mathematics Education, Team Teaching
Butler, Deborah L.; Schnellert, Leyton – Education Canada, 2008
An ever increasing body of research explores how teaching practice can foster more positive outcomes for students. Yet, despite countless professional development initiatives intended to help teachers develop research-based practices associated with student learning, for the most part research and practice remain disconnected. What gets in the way…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Teachers
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Carliner, Saul; Legassie, Regan; Belding, Shaun; MacDonald, Hugh; Ribeiro, Ofelia; Johnston, Lynn; MacDonald, Jane; Hehn, Heidi – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2009
In the growing body of research on the practice of training and development, several studies suggest that use of research-based findings in practice is low. The present study was designed to better understand the research-practice gap by exploring these questions: (1) Which published sources in the field are practicing professionals reading? How…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Theory Practice Relationship, Professional Development, Training
Roberts, Judy; Umbriaco, Michel – Journal of Distance Education, 2007
On April 1, 1983, thirteen "enthusiastic, daring, creative and resourceful" (Landstrom, 1993, p. 113) Canadian distance educators who were attending an international conference on telecourses gathered in a hotel room in Washington DC to socialize. They left that evening with a dream: a Canadian distance education association. Now, after…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Housing, Foreign Countries, Organizations (Groups)
Wills, Sandra Judith Abiola – 1987
Intended to review the recent professional developments in public relations as they are documented in the literature and to explore the implications of these developments for public relations education in Canada at the university level, this thesis is in six chapters, as follows: (1) Introduction; (2) Defining Public Relations; (3) Current Public…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Literature Reviews
Marshall, Anne – 2000
Counselor development is a topic of great interest to both trainers and counselors-in-training. Several models of counselor development as presented in the literature are described. Recent research has investigated developmental factors relating to counselor identity and sense of self-efficacy from a trainee perspective. A model of five recurring…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Counselor Characteristics, Counselor Role, Counselor Training
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Herie, Marilyn; Martin, Garth W. – Social Work, 2002
Presents an integrated dissemination model for social work and, through the use of a case example, illustrates the practical application of the model. The OPTIONS (OutPatient Treatment In Ontario Services) project is an example of the effective dissemination of two research-based addiction treatment modalities to nearly 1,000 direct practice…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Diffusion (Communication), Foreign Countries, Innovation
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