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Kartal, Galip; Demir, Yusuf – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2021
This paper presents a narrative inquiry approach to understanding the early professional development (PD) of student teachers of English at a state university in Turkey. With the twofold functioning of narrative as a tool for both research and PD, we probe into how student teachers' early PD trajectories are shaped through observational narrative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Student Teachers
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Altinay-Gazi, Zehra; Altinay-Aksal, Fahriye – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2017
Technology became a mediation tool for forming information and developing skills is teacher education programs of higher education institutions because technological tools can be used for self-reflection of prospective teachers' teaching performances. Practical implementation of teacher education programmes is a part of quality indicator in higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Qualitative Research, Teaching Methods
Jamieson, Thad Spencer – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The use of mathematics performance tasks can provide a window into how a student is applying mathematics to various situations, how they are reasoning mathematically and how they are applying conceptual knowledge through problem solving and critical thinking. The purpose of this study was to investigate, according to the elementary mathematics…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Mathematics, Performance Factors, Problem Solving
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Unwin, Adam – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2015
This work concerns the professional development of UK teachers in their first year of teaching. It is interested in how the online discussions (ODs) these teachers undertook as part of the Master of Teaching contributed to this development process. The teachers worked in online tutor groups made up of teachers from different schools, phases…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Beginning Teachers, Computer Mediated Communication
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Macfarlane, Kym; Lakhani, Ali; Cartmel, Jennifer; Casley, Marilyn; Smith, Kerry – Professional Development in Education, 2015
Inclusion Support Facilitators support Early Childhood Education and Care centres in Australia to provide an inclusive environment for the children they serve. To date no research has examined the causes of job stress faced by these professionals. Similarly, no research has explored how interventions aimed at supporting Inclusion Support…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Intervention, Facilitators (Individuals)
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Ramirez, Laurie A.; Allison-Roan, Valerie A.; Peterson, Sandra; Elliott-Johns, Susan E. – Studying Teacher Education, 2012
Four novice teacher educators working at different universities in the USA and Canada used online journaling and dialoguing combined with feedback from their students to explore their practice and new roles as teacher educators in new contexts. Their priorities included modeling critical reflection and enacting democratic practices. They chronicle…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Educators
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Smith, Elizabeth – Teaching in Higher Education, 2011
Despite long-standing commitment to the notion of critical reflection across the healthcare professions it is unusual for critical theory and practice to be taught as explicit subjects in healthcare higher education. There is evidence to show that reflective techniques such as critical portfolios and reflective diaries can help students to…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Social Systems, Diaries, Reflection
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Nsibande, Rejoice; Garraway, James – International Journal for Academic Development, 2011
Formative evaluation and its associated methodology of reflection on practice are used extensively in academic staff development. In reflecting on formative evaluation processes in both more traditional and newer programmes conducted at a university of technology, a number of variables reported in the literature were observed to have influenced…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Professional Development, Evaluation Methods, Critical Thinking
Minott, Mark Anthony – Canadian Journal of Education, 2011
This paper reports on a study which examined the impact of a course in Reflective teaching in the third year of a Bachelor of Education degree programme at a local University College. A broader purpose for the study was to continue the process of giving credence to reflective teaching as integral to effective teaching and learning. Specifically,…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Program Effectiveness, Reflective Teaching, Course Evaluation