Whilst video has become a central reflective tool in teacher education and teacher professional development, video-based collaborative reflection is just starting to gain traction as a research approach. The authors develop their understanding of this approach by examining how teacher noticing can be extended in teacher reflection. Specifically,…

Like their counterparts in business, teachers who act as knowledge brokers play a key role in transferring and translating knowledge from those who have it to those who need it. This article reports on findings of a qualitative study which examined how four knowledge broker teachers influenced the professional development of their colleague…

Sharing teachers' professional knowledge remains challenging. Teachers' development often remains ad hoc or local, and attempts to scale this up have proved problematic. To address this, research in areas such as 'learning design' has explored the use of formal representations of practice. This proposes that educational practice can be improved by…

The twenty-first century has seen unprecedented investment from governments around the world in educational technologies in schools. This paper investigates Australian teachers' adoption and use of a popular technology that has been extensively supported by governments and school systems: the interactive whiteboard (IWB). The study suggests that a…

This literature review focuses on the e-use of video in teacher initial and continuing professional development. There is evidence that video technology used synchronously, and particularly asynchronously, can extend the quantity and quality of classroom observation experience, which in turn supports the development of observation, analysis and…

To promote significant pedagogical change, the most successful teacher education programmes for the global south happen in the school context. This paper is based on a pre-pilot intervention study of an international education development programme in Bangladesh. Technology-enhanced learning, in this case the use of the Apple[R] iPod[R] (iPod…

Examines some of the changes that are occurring in the nature of teaching, suggesting that institutions should respond strategically. The article outlines how staff can be educated, supported, and rewarded with respect to their teaching responsibilities, arguing that strategies employed should focus on reforming reward structures. The article…