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Lofthouse, Rachel; Thomas, Ulrike – Professional Development in Education, 2017
Teachers are often encouraged to work in partnerships to support their professional development. In this article we focus on three forms of working partnerships based in English secondary schools. Each has an intended function of developing teaching practices. The cases of mentoring, coaching and an adapted lesson study come from both initial…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes, Partnerships in Education, Mentors
Sindberg, Laura K. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2016
The purpose of this study was to examine the ways in which a professional learning community (PLC) of music teachers sustained growth as they sought to incorporate Comprehensive Musicianship Through Performance (CMP) in their teaching practices. Seven music teachers from a suburban school district in the upper Midwest participated in a PLC as they…
Descriptors: Music, Music Education, Music Teachers, Professional Development
Gan, Zhengdong – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2014
Although research reveals that pre-service student teachers often regard their relationships with their significant others as an important element of their initial teaching practice experience, much remains unknown about the influence of significant others on non-native English as a Second Language (ESL) student teachers' professional learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Teachers, English (Second Language), Language Teachers
Hunzicker, Jana – Teacher Development, 2013
Part of a larger qualitative study to better understand how teachers learn to exercise informal leadership in the schools and districts where they work, this article illustrates dispositions of emerging teacher leadership by identifying and describing three possible teacher leadership prerequisites through lived experience examples. Eight…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Focus Groups
Avraamidou, Lucy – Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
The purpose of this case study was to examine a beginning elementary teacher's development of identity for science teaching from her first year at university, her field experience, and through her first year of teaching. Several kinds of data were collected over a period of 5 years through different sources: interviews, journal entries,…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Beginning Teachers, Professional Identity, Professional Development
Kang, Jung Jin – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study investigated how three instructors developed their professional learning of beliefs, knowledge, and practice by examining their professional learning processes using constructive, social constructive, and transformative theoretical perspectives on learning. It also focused on their challenges and supports in developing their…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Online Courses, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs
Suber, Patrick – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Teachers at a Title I elementary school in South Carolina implemented the scripted Reading Mastery© program (RMP) to improve students' comprehension. Comprehension scores did not increase, despite teachers receiving RMP professional development (PD) prior to implementing the program. Administrators were unaware if the teachers were adequately…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Reading, Reading Instruction
Plagens, Marcia L. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to explore how teachers use collaboration to improve practice in a Midwest elementary school. A case study approach was used for this research utilizing qualitative research techniques including surveys, individual interviews, and review of teacher reflective journals. This methodology was selected because the focus…
Descriptors: Campuses, Qualitative Research, Trust (Psychology), School Culture
Wong, Jocelyn L. N. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2010
The concept of "professional learning community" (PLC) has been suggested as a tool to improve teachers' professional competency and students' learning outcomes since the mid-1990s. In such a community, teachers can share their individual practices with the aim of searching for "good practice" based on the outcome of collective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Competence, Teaching Methods
Jurasaite-Harbison, Elena – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore informal contexts of teachers' workplace professional learning and inform educational researchers, teacher educators, administrators and teachers about ways in which teachers learn to improve their practice. By questioning how teachers learn on-the-job to be better teachers and how school cultures…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Learning, School Culture, Comparative Analysis
Clift, Renee T. – Studying Teacher Education, 2009
This article, written in narrative form, represents a data-based analysis of what I have learned about myself as a teacher of prospective teachers and as a teacher education researcher from Fall 2000 through Fall 2008 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The data for this analysis consist of three related data sets: notes on 13…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Teacher Education, English Teachers, English Instruction
Gravani, Maria N. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2008
The research reported in this paper explores aspects of the relationship between academics and practitioners in the context of a professional development programme. It is illustrated by qualitative data from a case study of university teachers' and secondary teachers' experiences and perceptions of a university-led in-service training course in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Data Analysis, Teacher Attitudes, Case Studies
Blixen, Carol E.; Papp, Klara K.; Hull, Alan L.; Rudick, Richard A.; Bramstedt, Katrina A. – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2007
Introduction: In academic health centers, the number of physician investigators and the number of research studies headed by clinicians has been declining. The U.S. Institute of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health suggest improved mentoring is important to reversing these trends. Methods: This is a case study review of the role of…
Descriptors: Clinics, Mentors, Case Studies, Program Implementation
Klein, Emily J. – New Educator, 2007
This article describes a case study of an educational organization, the Big Picture Company, trying to implement a highly unusual school design. It offers a close look at its professional development strategies and how its comprehensive program helps create a culture where teachers can, and do, learn. I detail five professional development…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Student Centered Curriculum, Professional Development, Intentional Learning

Carter, Kathy – Theory into Practice, 1988
The possibilities of the use of case literature by mentor teachers to convey theoretical knowledge to beginning teachers and to promote reflection and analysis are explored through a review of the advantages for mentor teachers, beginning teachers, and the school, as well as some obstacles and topics for cases that master teachers could develop.…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Case Studies, Interprofessional Relationship, Master Teachers