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Stezycka, Pamela Emilia; Etherington, Siân – TESL-EJ, 2020
The current study aimed at investigating the motivation of Polish EFL teachers working in state secondary schools in Poland. In order to collect research data, a mixed-methods approach involving the use of quantitative and qualitative research instruments was employed. Overall, thirty-seven Polish state secondary school EFL teachers completed a…
Descriptors: Teacher Motivation, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Parsons, Allison Ward; Parsons, Seth A.; Morewood, Aimee; Ankrum, Julie W. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2016
In this article, we describe lessons learned from three separate literacy professional learning initiatives that took place in elementary schools in three different locations: high-poverty urban, medium-poverty rural, and low-poverty suburban. The professional learning initiatives were also diverse in scope: one was a three-year, school-wide…
Descriptors: Barriers, Literacy, Elementary Schools, Professional Education
Wolman, Paul, Ed. – National Education Association Research Department, 2010
A continuing need for comprehensive and timely information about the public school teachers of the United States led the National Education Association (NEA) Research Division in 1956 to develop the first of a series of surveys and subsequent reports covering various aspects of teachers' professional, family, and civic lives. The NEA has conducted…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Teacher Characteristics, Federal Legislation, Public School Teachers
Kelly, Diana K. – 1990
This study was conducted to determine the characteristics, qualifications, frustrations, and institutional involvement of part-time faculty at community colleges. The study involved a review of the literature on trends in and statistics on part-time faculty employment; the motivations, characteristics, advantages and disadvantages, quality,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Faculty College Relationship, Faculty Development, Full Time Faculty
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College of the Canyons, Valencia, CA. – 1993
The Associate Program for Adjunct Faculty (APAF) at the College of the Canyons (CC) in Valencia, California, includes efforts to increase instructional quality by increasing the incidence of good teaching practices among part-time instructors. As part of a project to evaluate the APAF and to determine the involvement of adjunct faculty in the…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, College Faculty, College Planning, Community Colleges
Fitzpatrick, Kathleen; Charter, W. W., Jr. – 1986
This study investigated instructional leadership functions and school policy factors that affected implementation of instructional strategies presented in a research-based staff development program for secondary school mathematics teachers in school districts in the Chicago suburbs. The instructional leadership functions included the amount and…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Faculty Development, High Schools, Inservice Teacher Education