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Van Wyk, C.; Van Zyl, G.J. – Professional Development in Education, 2023
In an effort to offer a more focussed and competency-based approach to faculty development for newly appointed academics, this study prioritised the roles of the medical teacher, focussing on orientation initiatives. At a research-led university, we used 15 roles of a medical teacher. Health science academics were asked which professional…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Development, Teacher Attitudes, Health Sciences
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Eisuke Saito – Professional Development in Education, 2024
Professional learning may be the most significant when the teacher feels fundamentally challenged and questioned about their practices, beliefs, or identities. In this paper, the elements that cause such fundamental challenges and questions -- disruptions -- are called 'disruptive hooks'. In the process of addressing such disruptive hooks,…
Descriptors: Teachers, Professional Development, Inquiry, Learning Processes
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Santiago Rincon-Gallardo – Professional Development in Education, 2025
This conceptual article presents a challenge to the dominant view and practice of teacher professional learning and its focus on preparing "experts in teaching" and proposes instead an emphasis on preparing "experts in learning." Drawing on contemporary knowledge on the nature of human learning and development, and in…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Educational Innovation, Foreign Countries, Expertise
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De Keijzer, Helma; Jacobs, Gaby; Van Swet, Jacqueline; Veugelers, Wiel – Professional Development in Education, 2022
This article discusses teachers' moral learning in professional learning groups and corresponding challenges for teachers' moral professionalism. A professional learning programme aimed as understanding the moral dimension of teaching was conducted. A framework for moral learning was developed based on a review of the literature of teacher…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Faculty Development, Professionalism, Learning Processes
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Tal Carmi; Ainat Guberman; Rachel Cohen Brandeis – Professional Development in Education, 2025
Professional learning communities (PLCs) have become the gold standard of teachers' professional learning. However, their success is far from guaranteed. Little is known regarding the processes that groups of learners undergo to become fully-fledged PLCs. This study followed a teachers' PLC over three years. It shows how the facilitator learned to…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Teacher Collaboration, Learning Processes
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Nurit Dvir – Professional Development in Education, 2024
This article examines the characteristics, implementation and contribution of narrative pedagogy to the professional development of novice teachers through the example of two case studies. A holistic analysis of each case reflects a narrative pedagogy model, which includes four stages of the teaching-learning process: telling a personal life…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Faculty Development, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
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Stollman, Saskia; Meirink, Jacobiene; Westenberg, Michiel; Van Driel, Jan – Professional Development in Education, 2022
To better align teacher learning with teachers' learning needs, teachers' sense-making of an innovation during which teachers experimented with differentiated instruction was studied during two school years. Using answers to a questionnaire, 15 teachers' sense-making processes were characterised by three types of search for meaning: assimilation,…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Individualized Instruction, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Hinojosa-Pareja, Eva F.; García-Cano, María – Professional Development in Education, 2023
This paper describes and analyses teacher professional development actions and learning within the context of Higher Education in a Spanish public university. Seven teachers from different areas of knowledge and with different levels of teaching experience in the university participated in the study. Individual class journals were interpreted…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Faculty Development, College Faculty, Foreign Countries
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Frida Grimm – Professional Development in Education, 2024
Teacher leaders are increasingly leading learning conversations in professional learning communities (PLCs) in schools in several parts of the world today, but there is little empirical knowledge of teacher leadership in PLC conversations. Thus, this article aims to enhance such knowledge, particularly the development of teacher leadership in PLC…
Descriptors: Teacher Improvement, Teacher Leadership, Communities of Practice, Foreign Countries
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Boylan, Mark; Adams, Gill; Perry, Emily; Booth, Josephine – Professional Development in Education, 2023
Transformative professional learning is connected to educational and social transformation and possibilities for critical forms of teacher professionalism. Examining and fostering this connection requires greater conceptual clarity about these constructs and how they are enacted. A conceptual review, combining narrative and systematic methods, was…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Transformative Learning, Professionalism, Outcomes of Education
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Susanne Francisco; Anette Forssten Seiser; Anette Olin Almqvist – Professional Development in Education, 2024
It is widely accepted that professional learning is a crucial aspect of the ongoing professional practice of educators. But how should this professional learning take place, and what arrangements enable and constrain practices associated with educator learning? In this article, we explore two case studies of action research projects: one…
Descriptors: Action Research, Teacher Education, Vocational Education, Teachers
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Chu, Man-Wai; Brown, Barbara; Friesen, Sharon – Professional Development in Education, 2022
This article describes the development process and provides psychometric properties of the Design-Based Professional Learning (DBPL) for Teachers Survey to measure teacher leaders' ratings of collaborative design and evidence-based work in their schools. Although there are other instruments that researchers could use to measure professional…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Teacher Surveys, Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development
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Tan, Yuen Sze Michelle; Amiel, Joshua Johnstone – Professional Development in Education, 2022
Little is known about the integration of current neuroscience knowledge to classroom teaching, although many teachers rely on neuromyths to shape their pedagogies. Through a professional development approach, the learning study, we explored how teachers learned to apply neuroscience to teaching instruction. The teachers collaborated to design,…
Descriptors: Neurosciences, Teaching Methods, Faculty Development, Misconceptions
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Boylan, Mark; Coldwell, Mike; Maxwell, Bronwen; Jordan, Julie – Professional Development in Education, 2018
One approach to designing, researching or evaluating professional learning experiences is to use models of learning processes. Here we analyse and critique five significant contemporary analytical models: three variations on path models, proposed by Guskey, by Desimone and by Clarke and Hollingsworth; a model using a systemic conceptualisation of…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Learning Processes, Models, Path Analysis
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Jin, Xinglin; Li, Tongji; Meirink, Jacobiene; van der Want, Anna; Admiraal, Wilfried – Professional Development in Education, 2021
Novice-expert interaction plays an important role in teacher professional development for Chinese vocational education and training (VET). Both Chinese and international research shows that expert-teachers' support is associated with the improvement of novice-teachers' teaching. However, insights into how exactly novice teachers learn with the…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Experienced Teachers, Expertise, Professional Development
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