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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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Philippou, Stavroula; Papademetri-Kachrimani, Chrystalla; Louca, Loucas – Professional Development in Education, 2015
This paper explores the experiences of 14 early years educators who participated in a continuing professional development (CPD) programme coordinated by two of the paper's authors. The programme was part of a three-year research project, which aimed at introducing early childhood educators to an inquiry-based approach to mathematics and science…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Professional Continuing Education, Early Childhood Education, Teaching Methods
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Baecher, Laura – Professional Development in Education, 2012
While the scope of activities that constitute teacher leadership has become better defined, the professional development of emerging teacher leaders is just beginning to be discussed. In this study, the teacher leadership activities of beginning English-as-a-second-language teachers in a wide variety of settings in New York City public schools…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Teacher Leadership, Beginning Teachers, English (Second Language)
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Yates, Anne – Professional Development in Education, 2012
Professional learning to embed educational reform may need to take account of the stage of the reform rather than previous teaching experience. As reforms move to the embedding phase, some teachers have become more expert in executing the reform than others and may be well placed to provide professional learning. In 2007, the New Zealand Ministry…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Models, Academic Achievement
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Ben-Peretz, Miriam; Kleeman, Sara; Reichenberg, Rivka; Shimoni, Sarah – Professional Development in Education, 2010
Teacher educators prepare future teachers, and their own professional development is essential for successful teaching and learning in schools. Our study aims at understanding teacher educators' professional development (TEPD) from the unique perspective of a group of educators who are regularly involved in planning, managing and implementing…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Qualitative Research, Professional Development, Teacher Educators
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McKeon, Frankie; Harrison, Jennifer – Professional Development in Education, 2010
This exploratory study draws on the experiences, workplace learning and professional development of five beginning teacher educators in the first three years of their new careers. Examples of their developing pedagogic practices and reasoning and conceptions of their roles and identities as teacher educators in their new settings have been…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Teacher Educators, Educational Practices, Pedagogical Content Knowledge