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Emily Perry; Josephine Booth – Professional Development in Education, 2024
Research into schoolteachers' professional development often focuses on its subject and pedagogical content, delivery model and mechanisms for and evaluation of professional learning. However, the role of the professional development facilitators who lead, plan and deliver professional development activities is under-researched and their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Facilitators (Individuals), Teacher Educators, Professional Development
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Larysa Kolesnyk; Heidi Biseth – Professional Development in Education, 2024
This article focuses on the learning activities provided for ten experienced teacher educators from six teacher education institutions in Ukraine. The authors examine how teacher educators approach professional development when introducing a new interdisciplinary course in teacher education programmes Methods of Teaching the interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Professional Development, Global Approach, Educational Change
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Ann MacPhail; Deborah Tannehill; Rebecca Ataman – Professional Development in Education, 2024
We contend that the notion of critical friend is a legitimate consideration with respect to considering how to most effectively encourage professional relationships that support and enhance professional learning and development (PLD). This paper will firstly consider an overarching framework of professional relationships and define…
Descriptors: Friendship, Professional Development, Interpersonal Relationship, Role
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Sandvik, Lise Vikan; Solhaug, Trond; Lejonberg, Eli; Elstad, Eyvind; Christophersen, Knut-Andreas – Professional Development in Education, 2020
There is often a fragmentation between campus-based theoretical preparation of pre-service teachers and their practice in schools supported by school-based mentors. One of the fragmentation issues is related to how school-based teachers being mentors for pre-service teachers consider themselves as teachers and as 'teacher educators'. Thus, school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mentors, Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teacher Education
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Sansom, David W. – Professional Development in Education, 2020
In-service professional development aims to change what experienced teachers do and think, using innovations to improve teaching and learning. Teachers' beliefs and classroom practice are linked, but how they interact is less certain, and how they are changed by professional development is presented in the research literature by various models:…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Attitude Change, Professional Development, Inservice Teacher Education
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Montenegro Maggio, Helena – Professional Development in Education, 2016
The professional career paths and processes of development on becoming a teacher have been studied extensively. Nonetheless, the professional development on becoming a teacher educator has been barely researched. This article reports on a study focused on the professional career path of teacher educators from a situated perspective. The research…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Discourse Analysis, Questionnaires, Interviews
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Lunenberg, Mieke; Murray, Jean; Smith, Kari; Vanderlinde, Ruben – Professional Development in Education, 2017
In this article we present an embedded case study focused on the learning activities provided for and by us through our involvement in an international forum focused on the professional development of teacher educators. The aim of this research was to gain more insight into the complicated processes of professional learning across national…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Faculty Development, Learning Activities
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Yow, Jan A.; Lotter, Christine – Professional Development in Education, 2016
This study investigates the role of an inquiry professional development institute in empowering middle school mathematics and science teachers to develop as teacher leaders. Teachers and coaches jointly attended content sessions and participated in practice teaching sessions with students. The coaches led reflection sessions following the practice…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Educators, Middle School Teachers
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Jarvis, Sal; Bowtell, Julie; Bhania, Lynn; Dickerson, Claire – Professional Development in Education, 2016
This article explores one thread from a larger, longitudinal research project that investigated the views and experiences of teacher educators in Malaysia and from the United Kingdom who were involved in collaboration for the co-construction of a Bachelor of Education (Honours) in Primary Mathematics, with English and health and physical education…
Descriptors: International Educational Exchange, Teacher Educators, Teacher Collaboration, Mathematics Education
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Reichenberg, Rivka; Avissar, Gilada; Sagee, Rachel – Professional Development in Education, 2015
The context of the present paper is a school of professional development for teacher educators. One of the school's unique features is the employment of tutors/mentors, who are colleagues of their tutees in different study programmes. It has been established that many teacher educators enter the profession "accidentally," whether from…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Faculty Development, Professional Development Schools, Tutors
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Jackson, Alison; Eady, Sandra – Professional Development in Education, 2012
In this paper the authors suggest that teacher educators in higher education institutions (HEIs) in England are not fully convinced that teaching should be a Masters profession. The original engagement with Masters-level provision for student-teachers in England seems to have been founded on a technicality rather than a committed philosophical…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching (Occupation), Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators
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Karagiorgi, Yiasemina; Nicolaidou, Maria – Professional Development in Education, 2013
Although teacher educators are often regarded as models of lifelong learning for the teachers, their professional development has been the object of meagre research and discussion in the literature. This study raises awareness on issues pertaining to teacher educators' professional development in the Greek-Cypriot context. Data from…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Faculty Development, Teacher Attitudes, Semi Structured Interviews
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Minott, Mark A. – Professional Development in Education, 2010
The broad purpose of this self-study is two-fold: first, to aid in redressing the lack of attention given to the professional development of teacher educators; and second, to forward the idea that teaching reflectively is not only an excellent framework through which self-directed professional development can be enacted, but it is also an…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Professional Development, Reflective Teaching, Independent Study
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Fowler, Zoe; Stanley, Grant; Murray, Jean; Jones, Marion; McNamara, Olwen – Professional Development in Education, 2013
This article focuses on a virtual research environment (VRE) and how it facilitated the networking of teacher educators participating in an Economic and Social Research Council-funded research capacity-building project. Using the theoretical lenses of situated learning and socio-cultural approaches to literacy, participants' ways of engaging with…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Capacity Building, Communities of Practice, Educational Environment
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White, Elizabeth – Professional Development in Education, 2011
As a new teacher educator of beginner teachers on the Graduate Teacher Programme in a large School of Education in a UK university, I have reflected on how I have been able to develop the effectiveness of modelling good professional practice to student-teachers. In this paper I will present ways in which I have made modelling more explicit, how…
Descriptors: Reflective Teaching, Teacher Educators, Student Teachers, Foreign Countries
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