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Tamara Rumiantsev; Roeland van der Rijst; Wobbe Kuiper; Arie Verhaar; Wilfried Admiraal – British Journal of Music Education, 2024
This study aims to increase understanding of the values and outcomes of teacher action research in conservatoire education. Teacher action research has been found to stimulate both professional development and improvement of teaching practice. A multiple-case study design was employed to examine teachers' activities and their perceptions of the…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Action Research
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Schellings, Gonny; Koopman, Maaike; Beijaard, Douwe; Mommers, Janine – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2023
This study focuses on the complexity and uniqueness of 45 beginning teachers' professional identity, an important perspective that is usually not an explicit part of induction programmes. Data were collected in four workshops designed to support beginning teachers in reflecting on personal and contextual aspects that influence (the development of)…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Professional Identity, Classroom Techniques, Teacher Workshops
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Garraway, James – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
Though the future cannot be accurately predicted, it is possible to envisage a number of probable developments which can promote thinking about the future and so promote a more informed stance about what should or should not be done. Studies in technology and society have claimed that the use of a type of forecasting using plausible but imaginary…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Prediction, Predictor Variables, Teacher Workshops
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Groothuijsen, S. E. A.; Prins, G. T.; Bulte, A. M. W. – Professional Development in Education, 2019
The aim of this study is to establish an empirically substantiated professional development programme for teachers to become lead teachers who are able to support professional development of peers in times of curriculum innovation. The design of a professional development programme, participants' learning outcomes and their interrelatedness are…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Leadership, Curriculum Development, Teacher Collaboration
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Izadinia, Mahsa – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
Research suggests that the development of a teacher educator identity is a central process in becoming a teacher educator. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in the concept of teacher identity. However, teacher educator identity seems to be still under-researched. In this article, a review of literature on teacher educator identity is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Teacher Educators, Professional Identity
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Zwart, Rosanne C.; Korthagen, Fred A. J.; Attema-Noordewier, Saskia – Professional Development in Education, 2015
Based on positive psychology, self-determination theory and a perspective on teacher quality, this study proposes and examines a strength-based approach to teacher professional development. A mixed method pre-test/post-test design was adopted to study perceived outcomes of the approach for 93 teachers of six primary schools in the Netherlands and…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Competencies, Mixed Methods Research, Pretests Posttests
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van Diggelen, Migchiel; den Brok, Perry; Beijaard, Douwe – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2013
This article reports on the way teachers assess their own coaching competencies regarding the development of vocational education students' reflection skills. The participating teachers used a self-assessment procedure in which they had to judge themselves with the help of criteria and standards, received feedback from a colleague based on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Coaching (Performance), Vocational Education, Vocational Education Teachers
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Visser, Talitha C.; Coenders, Fer G. M.; Terlouw, Cees; Pieters, Jules – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2013
This study aims to evaluate a professional development programme that prepares and assists teachers with the implementation of a multidisciplinary science module, basing the evaluation on "participants' reactions," the first level of Guskey's five-level model for evaluation (2002). Positive evaluations at the higher levels in Guskey's…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Interdisciplinary Approach, Science Instruction, Science Teachers
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Peeters, Jan; Sharmahd, Nima – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2014
There is growing evidence among researchers and international organisations that quality of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC), and ultimately the outcomes for children and families--especially disadvantaged ones--is dependent on well-educated and competent staff, and that a lack of higher pre-service training can be partly compensated by…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Faculty Development, Early Childhood Education, Disadvantaged Youth
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Lunenberg, Mieke; Samaras, Anastasia P. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2011
This article reports on a collective self-study from our multiple and unique experiences of teaching self-study research in the Netherlands and the United States. Through the methodology of dialog, we merged what we learned from our individual studies which resulted in six guidelines for a pedagogy for teaching self-study research. Without…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Guidelines, College Instruction
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Dekker-Groen, Agaath M.; van der Schaaf, Marieke F.; Stokking, Karel M. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2013
This study aimed to evaluate a training programme for Dutch teachers in six institutes for nursing education to support students' reflection skills. The research question was: what are the feasibility, quality and effects of the programme? The training programme focused on four competences of teachers regarding instructing, guiding, giving…
Descriptors: Teacher Competencies, Reflection, Skill Development, Nursing Education
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers