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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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Douglas P. S. Andrews – Professional Development in Education, 2024
Teachers face numerous challenges in their efforts to be pedagogically responsive to students' different learning needs. I extend scholarship in the field by exploring the potential of implementing a nuanced, collaborative intervention strategy called knotworking to facilitate teachers' ongoing professional development (PD). The heuristic of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Professional Development, Teacher Collaboration
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Szelei, Nikolett; Tinoca, Luís; Pinho, Ana Sofia – Professional Development in Education, 2020
This article describes context-based professional development (PD) for cultural diversity in a Portuguese school cluster, and discusses how it supports change for justice and equity. Teachers felt the importance of PD and showed willingness and interest to learn. Several teacher learning opportunities were mapped out such as formal workshops,…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Pluralism, Learning Activities
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Shi, Leimin; Delahunty, Janine; Gao, Xiaoping – Professional Development in Education, 2019
In China, developing students' overall communicative competence was set as the central goal of the current college English curriculum requirements since 2004. However, this goal has remained largely unfulfilled, particularly with regard to writing competence. This study proposes that the genre-based pedagogy in systemic functional linguistics may…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Hennessy, Sara; Dragovic, Tatjana; Warwick, Paul – Professional Development in Education, 2018
The study reported in this article investigated the influence of a research-informed, school-based, professional development workshop programme on the quality of classroom dialogue using the interactive whiteboard (IWB). The programme aimed to develop a dialogic approach to teaching and learning mediated through more interactive uses of the IWB,…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Faculty Development, Teacher Workshops, Technology Integration
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Haßler, Björn; Hennessy, Sara; Cross, Andrew; Chileshe, Eness; Machiko, Brian – Professional Development in Education, 2015
This paper reports on the development and outcomes of the second phase of OER4Schools, a school-based professional development programme supporting interactive forms of subject teaching in conjunction with Open Educational Resources (OER) and technology in Zambian primary schools. We worked with partners to identify the needs of school-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Resources, Elementary Education, Continuing 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