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Krucoff, Rebecca – Journal of Museum Education, 2019
Museum educators partner with classroom educators in a multitude of ways aimed at enriching student experience. This article examines a five-week museum education course at Pratt Institute for pre-service art teachers taught in the model of a professional development series that could be adapted for many museums and applied to meet the needs of…
Descriptors: Museums, Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Teacher Collaboration
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Dimmock, Clive – Professional Development in Education, 2016
This paper argues the need for coherent, holistic frameworks offering insightful understandings as well as viable, connected and synergistic solutions to schools in addressing pressing problems arising from the acknowledged gaps between research, practice and professional development. There is a need to conceptualise a comprehensive conceptual…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Theory Practice Relationship, Guidelines, Reflective Teaching
National Art Education Association, 2009
The National Art Education Association (NAEA) is committed to ensuring that all students have access to a high quality, certified visual arts educator in every K-12 public school across the United States, recognizing that effective arts instruction is a core component of 21st-century education. "Professional Standards for Visual Arts…
Descriptors: Standards, Art Teachers, Visual Arts, Elementary Secondary Education
Nelson, Barbara Scott, Ed. – 1995
The set of papers collected in this anthology were developed from presentations given at the 16th meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME-NA), November 5-8, 1994, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. These papers provide conceptual explorations of dimensions of teacher change such as…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Mathematics Education
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Drake, Frederick D.; McBride, Lawrence W. – History Teacher, 2000
Focuses on how history teachers can develop a summative teaching portfolio including a checklist of documents to have in a portfolio, criteria for assessing a portfolio, a chart integrating history and teaching standards, and a rubric to assist in evaluating the portfolio. (CMK)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation, Higher Education, History
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Howe, Ann C.; Stubbs, Harriett S. – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 1997
Explains a professional development model that is informed both by constructivist and sociocultural theory. Focuses on professional development, personal development, and social development. Contains 26 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Educational Change, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
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Shepardson, Daniel P.; Adams, Paul E. – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 1996
Describes the professional development framework utilized in the Integrating Laboratory Instruction and Assessment (INLAB) project directed at changing teacher practice. The framework is based upon the establishment of an intellectual community of learners. (DDR)
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Concept Formation, Constructivism (Learning), Educational Change
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Hewson, Peter W.; Tabachnick, B. Robert; Zeichner, Kenneth M.; Lemberger, John – Science Education, 1999
Summarizes a complex study of a science-teacher-education program whose goal was to graduate teachers who held conceptual change conceptions of teaching science and were disposed to put hem into practice. Concludes that there are influences on prospective teachers from their content coursework that have significant implications for how they view…
Descriptors: Action Research, Biology, Constructivism (Learning), Elementary Secondary Education
Sandholtz, Judith Haymore – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2005
There is increasing recognition of the role of self-study in building teachers' knowledge base. As teachers make decisions about what and how to teach, they draw upon a knowledge base that includes numerous types of knowledge. This knowledge base is not static, but rather changes and expands throughout one's teaching career. An important method…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology
Collinson, Vivienne – 1996
This paper explores how exemplary teachers integrate three forms of knowledge in order to help student learn. This triad of knowledge is composed of professional knowledge (subject matter, curricular, and pedagogical knowledge), interpersonal knowledge (relationship with students, the education community and the local community), and intrapersonal…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Stough, Laura M.; Palmer, Douglas J.; Sharp, Amy N. – 2001
This study, part of a larger study on special education teacher expertise, compared the instructional decision making of expert and novice special education teachers in familiar instructional settings to determine differences in the allocation of attention to different instructional themes. Participants were 19 expert special education teachers…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Techniques, Disabilities, Educational Strategies
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Hewson, Peter W.; Tabachnick, B. Robert; Zeichner, Kenneth M.; Blomker, Kathryn B.; Meyer, Helen; Lemberger, John; Marion, Robin; Park, Hyun-Ju; Toolin, Regina – Science Education, 1999
Introduces an issue that details a complex study of a science-teacher-education program whose goal was to graduate teachers who held conceptual change conceptions of teaching science and were disposed to put them into practice. Presents a conceptual framework for science-teacher education, and describes the context and major questions of the…
Descriptors: Action Research, Biology, Constructivism (Learning), Elementary Secondary Education
Carr, Maureen Sherry; Braunger, Jane – 1998
This monograph describes the Curriculum Inquiry Cycle (CIC), a professional development process that supports educators in making curriculum and instruction decisions responsive to state standards, local needs, and student characteristics. It is designed to improve learning and teaching, with the classroom as the central focus. The CIC has four…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education
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Stengel, Barbara Senkowski – Educational Foundations, 1997
Looks at "pedagogical knowing" as one facet of a larger conceptual framework that grounds a teacher's self-knowledge as a person and as a teacher. With the help of two middle school English teachers, the paper argues for a view of subject matter knowledge that is dynamic, relational, practice-oriented, and useful. (SM)
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines
Myers, Charles B. – 1997
An analysis of a number of university-school collaborative efforts in the United States and Canada to establish professional development schools, and of action research efforts in the United Kingdom, has shown that the partnership efforts studied devote significantly less attention to ideas about the nature of learning, teaching, schools, and…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Educational Change, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education
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