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Job Satisfaction and Teacher-Student Relationships across the Teaching Career: Four Case Studies
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Veldman, Ietje; van Tartwijk, Jan; Brekelmans, Mieke; Wubbels, Theo – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2013
We studied the development of teacher-student relationships and teachers' job satisfaction throughout the careers of four veteran teachers who retained high job satisfaction. Teacher data gathered with the narrative-biographical method were compared with students' perceptions of the teacher-student relationships, using the Questionnaire on Teacher…
Descriptors: Experienced Teachers, Student Attitudes, Teacher Student Relationship, Job Satisfaction
Expertise for Teaching Biology Situated in the Context of Genetic Testing
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van der Zande, Paul; Akkerman, Sanne F.; Brekelmans, Mieke; Waarlo, Arend Jan; Vermunt, Jan D. – International Journal of Science Education, 2012
Contemporary genomics research will impact the daily practice of biology teachers who want to teach up-to-date genetics in secondary education. This article reports on a research project aimed at enhancing biology teachers' expertise for teaching genetics situated in the context of genetic testing. The increasing body of scientific knowledge…
Descriptors: Experienced Teachers, Testing, Teaching Methods, Genetics
Experienced Teachers' Informal Learning: Learning Activities and Changes in Behavior and Cognition
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Hoekstra, Annemarieke; Brekelmans, Mieke; Beijaard, Douwe; Korthagen, Fred – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2009
In this study on 32 teachers' learning in an informal learning environment, we analyzed changes in conceptions and behavior regarding students' active and self-regulated learning (ASL), and relations with the teachers' learning activities. Few relations were found between observed changes in "behavior" and learning activities. Changes in…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Learning Activities, Teaching Methods, Experienced Teachers
A Knowledge Base for Teaching Biology Situated in the Context of Genetic Testing
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van der Zande, Paul; Waarlo, Arend Jan; Brekelmans, Mieke; Akkerman, Sanne F.; Vermunt, Jan D. – International Journal of Science Education, 2011
Recent developments in the field of genomics will impact the daily practice of biology teachers who teach genetics in secondary education. This study reports on the first results of a research project aimed at enhancing biology teacher knowledge for teaching genetics in the context of genetic testing. The increasing body of scientific knowledge…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Testing, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Educational Practices
Experienced Teachers' Informal Workplace Learning and Perceptions of Workplace Conditions
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Hoekstra, Annemarieke; Korthagen, Fred; Brekelmans, Mieke; Beijaard, Douwe; Imants, Jeroen – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore in detail how teachers' perceptions of workplace conditions for learning are related to their informal workplace learning activities and learning outcomes. Design/methodology/approach: From a sample of 32 teachers, a purposeful sampling technique of maximal variation was used to select two cases…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Learning Activities, Interaction, Experienced Teachers