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Joel Andrew Bacalia – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative, descriptive study is to explore how assistant principals describe their choices regarding survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun regarding whether to seek promotion to principal in southern Arizona. A principal shortage exists in the United States in part because assistant principals qualified to be…
Descriptors: Assistant Principals, Career Choice, Decision Making, Professional Autonomy
Alisha Jordan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study examines the complex dynamics of teacher retention within Catholic schools, seeking to understand the motivations, factors and alignment of reasons provided by teachers for their decision to stay or leave their positions. Utilizing Sher's Theoretical Framework (1983) as its guiding principle, the study examines the factors that motivate…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Faculty Mobility, Catholic Schools, Decision Making
Devyn Mares – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Decision-making within school environments is critical to the continued improvement of services for all populations. Despite this high level of importance, there is limited information related to how systemic decisions are made in charter schools. There is also limited information on how charter school leaders interact with teachers and the impact…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Decision Making, Teacher Role, Teacher Administrator Relationship
Natalie M. Bolino – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Scripted/narrowed curricula are tangled in the webs of school reforms and standardization. Teachers are experiencing a monumental challenge: the deprofessionalization of their roles as educators. I sought teachers' understandings of how scripted/narrowed curricula impact their curriculum autonomy, specifically, their professional responsibility…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Curriculum, Professional Autonomy, Teacher Responsibility
Rachelle Musgrave Aker – ProQuest LLC, 2024
A growing concern in graduate medical education (GME), research indicates that some graduating residents are unprepared to enter unsupervised practice. The aim of this qualitative phenomenological study is to illuminate the resident experience surrounding the development of autonomy in clinical decision making relative to teaching practices.…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Medical Students, Graduate Medical Education, Clinical Experience
Floyd, Kristy A. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Following a 15-year decline, the United States is experiencing the lowest educator job satisfaction ever recorded amidst a critical teacher shortage. Discussions of how to retain teachers are part of everyday conversations in education. Although much research has been conducted on the many factors influencing job satisfaction, one factor that has…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Job Satisfaction, Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers
Truth Thelma Akins – ProQuest LLC, 2023
It was not known if, and to what extent, differences exist in decision-making, impact, status, autonomy, professional development, and self-efficacy dimensions of teacher empowerment for high school teacher race, gender, and administrative staff gender composition among high school teachers in the Southeastern United States, as measured by the…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, Teacher Characteristics, Racial Differences, Gender Differences
Sunyoung Park – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation study investigated secondary mathematics teachers' designing and enacting lessons to draw on students' multiple mathematical knowledge bases. The ultimate objective of incorporating open spaces in mathematics lessons is to support students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in developing mathematical…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Middle School Teachers, Prior Learning
Carissa Parrish; Taylor Carter; Denise Holloway – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation investigated teacher agency in a rural elementary school. Agency is a construct of understanding how individuals become connected or disconnected with their environment, which influences their interactions with other people, places, and things (Emirbayer & Mische, 1998). At this time, agency is important to study because it…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Rural Schools, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Denise Holloway; Taylor Carter; Carissa Parrish – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation investigated teacher agency in a rural elementary school. Agency is a construct of understanding how individuals become connected or disconnected with their environment, which influences their interactions with other people, places, and things (Emirbayer & Mische, 1998). At this time, agency is important to study because it…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Rural Schools, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Taylor Carter; Denise Holloway; Carissa Parrish – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation investigated teacher agency in a rural elementary school. Agency is a construct of understanding how individuals become connected or disconnected with their environment, which influences their interactions with other people, places, and things (Emirbayer & Mische, 1998). At this time, agency is important to study because it…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Rural Schools, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Melissa Rudd – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Academic advisors play a critical role in student success within United States institutions of higher education. Although uniquely positioned to contribute to important institutional and student outcomes, academic advising is identified in the literature as an emerging profession, often delegitimizing advisor authority and limiting their…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Academic Advising, Innovation, Higher Education
Koepke, Tracy L. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative case study explored instructional decisions exemplary primary teachers (kindergarten-third grade) made in order to engage students in mathematics. The phenomenon of teachers altering, supplementing, or utilizing district-given materials to support student engagement and understanding was studied. Specifically, this involved…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes, Mathematics Instruction
Irene Ann Resenly – ProQuest LLC, 2022
I set out to understand how memorial site educators conceptualize Holocaust education and how notions of history, memory, and place shape their ideas. I explored the teachings of four veteran memorial site educators at a site of memory of the Holocaust in Germany. The analysis was grounded in theories of collective memory broadly (Assmann, 2010;…
Descriptors: Death, Jews, European History, History Instruction
Lunde, Jessica Estelle – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Teacher decision-making has been widely studied; however, teacher decision-making specifically with students who have been identified as aggressive has not. This qualitative case study investigated teacher decision-making with three traditional public-school K-12 teachers through case study methodology. Data were gathered through a semi-structured…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Decision Making, Case Studies, Teacher Student Relationship