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Bullough, Robert V. – Teacher Development, 2023
Only recently have researchers and practitioners become interested in teacher educator development and identity formation. The author explores the place of 'distant teachers' -- giants of the past whose lives and works prove powerful in self-formation. John Dewey and Boyd H. Bode are offered as examples of distant teachers; the development of the…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Teacher Educator Education, Professional Development, Professional Identity
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Hagan, Martin; Eaton, Patricia – Teacher Development, 2020
This paper provides a critical reflection on teacher education and professional development in Northern Ireland between 2003 and 2018. It argues that whilst there is much about teacher education in Northern Ireland that is to be commended, the unique socio-historical, political and cultural context within which it operates may be considered as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Faculty Development, Educational Practices
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Melville, Wayne; Hardy, Ian; Roy, Matt – Teacher Development, 2019
The authors argue that the professional learning practices of teachers in precarious employment may have a significant impact upon their understandings of specific policy reforms. The analysis considers a teacher's understandings of learning about a new policy in light of the various 'epistemological resources' he brought to bear to his learning…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Teaching Methods
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Brereton, Bernadette – Teacher Development, 2021
In 2017, the participants of a higher education professional development (PD) working group (meitheal) met face-to-face and remotely to examine the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (NFTL) Framework for Professional Development. Through collaboration and mentorship, members of the meitheal successfully…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Faculty Development, Mentors, Cooperation
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Schmid, Megan E.; Bajcz, Alex W.; Balster, Nicholas J. – Teacher Development, 2021
Early-career faculty (ECF) are faced with maintaining excellence in teaching and research for tenure. However, many enter academia with little or no teaching experience. Madison Teaching and Learning Excellence, a year-long professional development program, was designed to mitigate these pressures and help faculty become fast, efficient, and…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, College Faculty, Teacher Effectiveness, Program Effectiveness
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Blyth, Carmen; Meiring, Rouxnette – Teacher Development, 2018
As we enter the sixth great mass extinction event, an event that points to humanity's exploitative attitude towards nature, posthumanist ethics offers a different way of engaging with the world, a way which has clear and extensive implications for the way environmental education is taught in South African schools. However, given the official…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Ethics
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Oliver, Martin; Avramides, Katerina; Clark, Wilma; Hunter, Jade; Luckin, Rose; Hansen, Cecilie; Wasson, Barbara – Teacher Development, 2018
Sharing teachers' professional knowledge remains challenging. Teachers' development often remains ad hoc or local, and attempts to scale this up have proved problematic. To address this, research in areas such as 'learning design' has explored the use of formal representations of practice. This proposes that educational practice can be improved by…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Communities of Practice, Faculty Development, Inquiry
Marsh, Brian; Mitchell, Nick – Teacher Development, 2014
This literature review focuses on the e-use of video in teacher initial and continuing professional development. There is evidence that video technology used synchronously, and particularly asynchronously, can extend the quantity and quality of classroom observation experience, which in turn supports the development of observation, analysis and…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Preservice Teacher Education, Faculty Development, Video Technology
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Antoniou, Panayiotis; Kyriakides, Leonidas; Creemers, Bert P. M. – Teacher Development, 2015
This paper refers to the Dynamic Integrated Approach (DIA) towards teacher professional development, which attempts to merge research findings on teacher effectiveness and teacher professional development. The theoretical framework and the major features of the DIA are presented. It is argued that the DIA can be effectively implemented through…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Effectiveness, Instructional Effectiveness, Teacher Improvement
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Blandford, Sonia – Teacher Development, 2014
Teach First works in partnership with government, business organisations, higher education institutions (providers of Initial Teacher Training, ITT) and schools to offer a two-year integrated Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) Leadership Development Programme; the first cohort of students were accepted in 2003. Its delivery of an integrated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Leadership Training, Partnerships in Education
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Sakamoto, Nami – Teacher Development, 2011
The author traced an English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher's professional development by examining her narrative and identifying the transformation of her awareness or "kizuki". "Kizuki," which is unique to Japanese culture, implies a sudden feeling of inner understanding of a phenomenon and can be roughly translated as…
Descriptors: Asian Culture, Ownership, Faculty Development, English (Second Language)
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Zgaga, Pavel – Teacher Development, 2013
The aim of this paper is to reconsider recent pan-European developments in teacher education and to discuss some aspects of its future. Teacher education across Europe has been largely "universitised"; therefore, both its present and future should be discussed within the context of the general changes in European higher education deeply…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Higher Education, Educational Change
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Mitton-Kukner, Jennifer; Akyuz, Ciler – Teacher Development, 2012
This paper explores the authors' experiences as an early career teacher educator and English-language instructor in an English-medium university in Turkey. The theoretical framework shaping their collaboration draws upon a narrative view of teacher knowledge as an embodiment of teachers' experiences in schools in close relationship with their…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Teacher Characteristics, Foreign Countries, Professional Development
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McLean, Cheryl A.; Mallozzi, Christine A.; Hu, Ran; Dailey, Leslie Bottoms – Teacher Development, 2010
Practitioners are often faced with the national legislation's influence at the school-based curricular level. In the United States, the federal government No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 mandates reading instruction at the early primary grade levels. The position of "literacy coach" was created to support this curriculum change by…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Curriculum Development, Elementary Schools, Federal Legislation
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Karagiorgi, Yiasemina – Teacher Development, 2012
This article examines teachers' perceptions of, and experiences with, professional development opportunities involving a school-based project on peer observation of teaching. The study aims to reveal the ways in which seven teachers in one primary school in Cyprus see themselves as agents improving their own and peers' teaching through informal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Observation, Faculty Development, Peer Evaluation
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