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Bennett, Cory A.; Thorpe, Justin; Ray, Beverly – Teacher Development, 2022
Developing teachers' professionalism is important to developing the internal capacity of schools in rural and remote areas. This study investigated rural mathematics educators' (n = 677) perceptions of professionalism to better understand how to provide more focused and relevant support for mathematics teachers in similar rural and remote…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Rural Schools, Professionalism
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Schwartz, Catherine Stein; Ticknor, Anne Swenson – Teacher Development, 2018
The purpose of this paper is to describe the school-based contextual constraints perceived by beginning elementary teachers as they attempted to enact their visions of effective mathematics teaching and the components of a mathematics-specific, university-based induction program designed to support elementary teachers in their teaching of…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Effectiveness, Mathematics Instruction
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Mundy, Marie-Anne; Howe, Mary E.; Kupczynski, Lori – Teacher Development, 2015
This study examined 299 Louisiana teachers from three school districts regarding their perceptions of the value provided by specific types of professional development (PD) including professional learning communities (PLC), demonstration lessons, and in-service as well as graduate hours in reading/literacy on implementation (frequency of use),…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Professional Development, Communities of Practice, Demonstrations (Educational)
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Locke, Terry; Whitehead, David; Dix, Stephanie; Cawkwell, Gail – Teacher Development, 2011
This article draws on early data from a two-year project (2009-11) being undertaken in the New Zealand context by the authors entitled: "Teachers as Writers: Transforming Professional Identity and Classroom Practice". Based on the National Writing Project in the USA (and in New Zealand in the 1980s) its hypothesis is that when teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Instruction, Professional Development, Writing Workshops