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Research and Policy: Can Online Learning Communities Foster Professional Development?
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Beach, Richard – Language Arts, 2012
This column posits enhancing professional development through uses of digital tools to create professional learning communities (PLCs) designed to support collective inquiry and action research leading to schoolwide improvement. These digital tools include a social networking/discussion forum for teacher collaboration; teachers' individual…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Action Research
The Light at the End of the Journal: A Teacher Learns about Learning.
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Voss, Margaret M. – Language Arts, 1988
Relates what the author learned about learning through journal writing, namely: strategies to make order from confusion; ways to connect one's learning to the rest of one's life; ways to become aware not only of what we learn, but of how we learn, both alone and together. (SR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Journal Writing
On Becoming Teacher Experts: Research as a Way of Knowing.
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McConaghy, June – Language Arts, 1986
Describes the experiences of one recipient of a teacher researcher grant from the National Council of Teachers of English as her research began to inform her teaching and her teaching influenced her research. (SRT)
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Educational Research, Learning Strategies, Reading Material Selection
Making Connections.
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Language Arts, 1986
Expresses the viewpoints of six teachers concerning the importance of considering a child's individual needs in reading or writing instruction. (DF)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Arts, Learning Processes