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Papatraianou, Lisa H.; Strangeways, Al; Beltman, Susan; Schuberg Barnes, Emma – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2018
Enhancing resilience is key to reducing teacher attrition and addressing the challenges of the profession but scant research exists on resilience in regional and remote settings, where there is a shortage of quality, specialist and lead teachers. The aim of this study was to combine ecological and relational perspectives on resilience to examine…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Resilience (Psychology), Rural Schools, Foreign Countries
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Savvidou, Christine – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2010
This study shows how a group of English language lecturers use storytelling as a form of professional dialogue. The aim of the study is to highlight the dialogic role of storytelling in supporting the construction of lecturers' professional knowledge and not to identify lecturers' professional knowledge. In a professional development project, 12…
Descriptors: Knowledge Base for Teaching, Professional Development, Faculty Development, Educational Research
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Brantlinger, Andrew; Sherin, Miriam Gamoran; Linsenmeier, Katherine A. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2011
This paper examines a group of secondary mathematics teachers who met 16 times to discuss video excerpts of their teaching. The explicit purpose of the meetings was to assist the teachers in preparing video for submission to the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Analysis of meeting transcripts reveals that teachers engaged in…
Descriptors: National Standards, Mathematics Teachers, Faculty Development, Mathematics Instruction
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Craig, Cheryl – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2010
The article shows the experience of professional development over the course of a decade of one teacher's career nested against the backdrop of one reforming middle-school context in the USA. Through the use of four fine-grained narrative exemplars, the campus professional development trajectory is examined from the vantage point of Daryl Wilson,…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Faculty Development, Professional Development, Reflective Teaching
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Hall, Elaine – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2009
The connection between teacher inquiry, professional development and school improvement was recognised 30 years ago by Lawrence Stenhouse. Stenhouse contributed many valuable insights into the role of practitioner enquiry in creating and utilising knowledge about teaching and learning, much of which is still to be applied systematically in teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Relationship, Teachers, Inquiry
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Lyons, Nona – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2006
This paper takes up two important issues in the professional development of university teachers: the controversy surrounding reflective inquiry and its purported benefits for professional development and the lack of research on what teachers learn from reflective inquiry and how that affects and/or changes their professional practice.…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Investigations, Foreign Countries, Faculty Development