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Mann, Steve; Webb, Katie – Research-publishing.net, 2022
In this chapter, the authors argue that there are five different dimensions of continuing professional development (CPD) crucial to its effectiveness. It should be: (1) systematic; (2) collaborative; (3) innovative; (4) reflective; and (5) digital. For each dimension, they give several concrete examples to illustrate the kind of CPD that they are…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Program Effectiveness, Sustainability, Cooperation
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Jonathan Lovell; Brent Duckor; Carrie Holmberg – English Journal, 2015
The authors argue that to help beginning teachers improve their practice, they (as teacher educators) must acknowledge their ongoing development toward becoming professional educators in the school communities they inhabit and with the students they serve. This piece cites numerous examples of teachers reflecting over a two-year period on their…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Beginning Teachers, Experienced Teachers, Revision (Written Composition)
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Zabel, Robert; Kaff, Marilyn; Teagarden, James – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2015
Dr. Frank Gresham provides his reflections on a long and productive career in providing support to children with significant challenges. Dr. Gresham also provides his thoughts on the future of the field.
Descriptors: Reflection, Profiles, Career Development, Children
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Kumar, A. K. Shiva – American Journal of Evaluation, 2010
This paper presents the author's comment on "Evaluation Field Building in South Asia: Reflections, Anecdotes, and Questions" by Katherine Hay. Hay raises a number of extremely relevant issues relating to evaluation field building in South Asia. In this paper, the author aims to underscore the importance of three priorities for initiating…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Support, Program Evaluation, Advocacy
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Grob, George F. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2010
The author enjoyed reading Katharine Hay's ambitious and humbling visions for evaluation field building in South Asia. She has successfully positioned herself on a high mountain with a wonderful set of binoculars that enable her to see the entire evaluation landscape of South Asia. She magically sees and describes significant historical forces and…
Descriptors: Evaluation Research, Evaluators, Foreign Countries, Accountability
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Sridharan, Sanjeev; De Silva, Soma – American Journal of Evaluation, 2010
The papers in this dialogue help develop evaluation as a field (both in South Asia and other regions). What comes through in all of the papers is both humility of where evaluation is as a field and imagination and ambition of where evaluators could be in the near future. Reading the papers in this forum makes them enthusiastic about being…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Program Evaluation, Aspiration, Foreign Countries
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Feldman, Pam – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2005
The following essay explores aspects of my professional identity as a teacher of English, presenting a focus on "the reflexive project of the self" (Goodson, 1998). I argue for the way rich professional learning can occur by keying into a discourse that values penetrating reflection on classroom practice, teacher identity, self and…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Self Concept, English Teachers, Secondary School Teachers