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Deidre Walker; Tena Patten; Simon Stephens – Irish Educational Studies, 2024
This study explores teachers' experiences of peer observation in a post-primary setting. We begin by reviewing the literature on the peer observation of teaching, teacher professional development, professional learning communities and reflective practice. A qualitative, inductive, multi-method case study is used. Four pairs of teachers…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Observation, Teacher Evaluation, Collegiality
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Donlon, Enda; McDonald, Elaine; Fitzsimons, Sabrina; Sexton, P. J. – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2020
While School Placement is long established as a central component of Initial Teacher Education programmes, there is an increasing awareness that these placement experiences should go beyond the practical activities most directly associated with teaching. This paper considers how engagement in a school placement period with a focus on non-teaching…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Student Teachers, Learner Engagement, Sense of Community
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Ni Shuilleabhain, Aoibhinn; Seery, Aidan – Professional Development in Education, 2018
Based in a time of major curriculum reform, this article reports on a qualitative case study of teacher professional development (PD) in the Republic of Ireland (ROI). Five mathematics teachers in an Irish secondary school were introduced to and participated in successive cycles of school-based lesson study (LS) over the course of one academic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Faculty Development, Mathematics Teachers
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Ní Chróinín, Déirdre; Fletcher, Tim; O'Sullivan, Mary – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2018
Background: Concerns that current forms of physical education teacher education (PETE) are not adequately providing teachers with the tools necessary for working with the realities and challenges of teaching physical education in contemporary schools has led some scholars to advocate for an approach that prioritises meaningfulness in physical…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Competencies
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Kenny, Ailbhe; Mitchell, Eamonn; Chróinín, Déirdre Ní; Vaughan, Elaine; Murtagh, Elaine – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2014
Peer observation of teaching (POT) has become common practice in many universities. However, it could be argued that existing models often have limited scope for understanding the student experience. This study presents a modified approach to POT in which the researchers adopted the roles of (1) lecturer, (2) peer-participant and (3)…
Descriptors: Peer Groups, Observation, Teaching Styles, Teacher Role
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Brett, Valerie; Mullally, Martina; O'Gorman, Bill; Fuller-Love, Nerys – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2012
Developing sustainable learning networks for entrepreneurs is the core objective of the Sustainable Learning Networks in Ireland and Wales (SLNIW) project. One research team drawn from the Centre for Enterprise Development and Regional Economy at Waterford Institute of Technology and the School of Management and Business from Aberystwyth…
Descriptors: Action Research, Foreign Countries, Networks, Sustainable Development