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Lai, Edith – Professional Development in Education, 2010
Mentoring has been widely recognized as an important aspect of the professional preparation of beginning teachers. How mentoring is viewed bears important implications for how mentoring is to be practiced and experienced. This study investigated the views of mentoring held by mentors, mentored in-service teachers and university teachers in a…
Descriptors: Mentors, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Inservice Teacher Education
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Lydon, Susannah; King, Chris – Professional Development in Education, 2009
A comparative review of the research literature regarding the effectiveness of continuing professional development (CPD) demonstrates that a range of different factors needs to be present if it is to have impact in the classroom and that short CPD episodes are unlikely to be effective. The Earth Science Education Unit approach to CPD had to be…
Descriptors: Earth Science, Teaching Methods, Professional Continuing Education, Teacher Workshops