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Direct linkPasternak, Donna L.; Rigoni, Karen K.; Roberts, Nakeysha D. – Professional Development in Education, 2012
Through case-study reports, this paper examines the development of two induction-year teachers (years one to three) through their participation in a professional development community in the United States: the Invitational Summer Institute (ISI) of the National Writing Project. Typically, the ISI focuses its professional development efforts on…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Professional Development, Beginning Teachers, Beginning Teacher Induction
Strand, Virginia; Bosco-Ruggiero, Stephanie – Professional Development in Education, 2011
In-service training in public child welfare agencies in the United States has long been viewed as an important vehicle for the improvement of job satisfaction and organizational commitment, and therefore as important to retention in child welfare. This article examines the critical role of transfer of learning strategies in such training and…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Child Welfare, Learning Strategies, Transfer of Training
Reeves, Todd D.; Pedulla, Joseph J. – Professional Development in Education, 2011
Online professional development (OPD) is proliferating in an effort to eliminate barriers to high-quality in-service teacher training. Using the Internet as a vehicle for continuing professional development, however, introduces new concerns largely absent in its face-to-face counterpart. For example, evidence from the USA's e-Learning for…
Descriptors: Evidence, Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Least Squares Statistics
Trent, John – Professional Development in Education, 2011
This article reports on a qualitative study that explored the experiences of eight Hong Kong teachers of academic subjects who undertook a full-time, short-term professional development course (PDC) designed to provide them with specialized knowledge and classroom skills required to teach content subjects through the English medium. Using a…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Professional Development, English (Second Language)
Smeets, Karel; Ponte, Petra – Professional Development in Education, 2009
The present article reports on a case study into the influence and impact of action research carried out by teachers in a special school. The action research was an important component of the two-year, post-initial, in-service course in special educational needs, provided by Fontys University of Applied Sciences, Department of Inclusive and…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Action Research, Program Effectiveness, Teacher Leadership
Lydon, Susannah; King, Chris – Professional Development in Education, 2009
A comparative review of the research literature regarding the effectiveness of continuing professional development (CPD) demonstrates that a range of different factors needs to be present if it is to have impact in the classroom and that short CPD episodes are unlikely to be effective. The Earth Science Education Unit approach to CPD had to be…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Teaching Methods, Professional Continuing Education, Teacher Workshops
