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Mitchell, David; Hanus, Martin; Béneker, Tine; Biddulph, Mary; Leininger-Frézal, Caroline; Zwartjes, Luc; Donert, Karl – Journal of Geography, 2022
GeoCapabilities is a distinctive approach to teacher professional development which foregrounds the educational potential of geographical knowledge. This paper examines the effect of GeoCapabilities on geography teachers' expertise. First, the paper explores a problem of teacher training which privileges technique for classroom effectiveness over…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Geography, Knowledge Level, Expertise
Collet, Vicki S. – Teachers College Press, 2022
Books abound to guide mentoring and coaching for preservice and inservice teachers' professional learning. However, none fully account for the differences among teachers in experience and expertise and how these factors change over time. This book addresses this need by presenting a dynamic model for teacher/coach interactions, the Gradual…
Descriptors: Mentors, Coaching (Performance), Preservice Teachers, Faculty Development
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Becky Tugman; Lauren E. Stephens; Taimi Olsen; Alfred E. Bundrick – To Improve the Academy, 2025
Peer observation of teaching (PoT) is a recognized evaluation tool. However, faculty concerns persist regarding bias, beneficial feedback, and lack of peer observer training. While faculty desire to provide quality and equitable reviews, many higher education faculty peers have little expertise in conducting observations and evaluations. This…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Faculty Development, Formative Evaluation, Summative Evaluation
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Raduan, Nur Atiqah; Na, Seung-Il – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2020
This paper reviews the key conceptual models used in research on teacher development, in particular examining the strengths and limitations of expertise and career development models. The expertise development of a teacher is generally classified into several stages; novice, beginner, competent, skilled, and expert, while teacher career…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Career Development, Expertise, Models
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Gabriella Pocalana; Ornella Robutti – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2025
The research presented in this paper aims to shed light on the complex role of mathematics teacher educators who led courses for prospective mathematics teachers. Theoretically, the research combines the documentational approach to didactics and the meta-didactical transposition frameworks, complementing the study with the analysis of the teacher…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Educators, Documentation, Praxis
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Shagrir, Leah – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2021
This article is based on reflexive research, which served as a tool to consolidate significant insights into the author's scholarly growth as a researcher specialising in teacher education. These insights are presented with universal meaning by proposing a three-phase model of scholarly growth for higher education faculty. Critical retrospective…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Scholarship, Professional Identity, Educational Researchers
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Brown, Abbie H.; Green, Timothy D. – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2018
Instructional Design literature provides descriptions of established models that are particularly helpful for novices learning the patterns and approaches that have historically proven successful. However, it does not provide as much information about the design process in its largest sense. The popularity of established ID models may cause…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Models, Faculty Development, Expertise
Cormier, Maria S.; Bickerstaff, Susan – Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2020
Despite the growing evidence on promising approaches to postsecondary instruction--and particularly on the benefits of student-centered, conceptually oriented instruction for underprepared students--there has been limited investment in supporting these approaches' widespread implementation. Most postsecondary instructors have limited training in…
Descriptors: Teacher Improvement, Faculty Development, College Faculty, Teaching Methods
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Blumberg, Phyllis – Journal of Faculty Development, 2017
Faculty are assuming greater responsibility for assessment of educational programs, which may be a new and daunting role. Therefore, faculty need to develop expertise and skills to do these assessments meaningfully. The overall purpose of this article is to provide faculty a program assessment resource. Assessments are conducted for accountability…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Skill Development, Program Evaluation, Expertise
Goodwin, Bryan; Slotnik, William J. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2019
There is a long-held but inaccurate belief that new teachers' expertise and talent is mostly innate and that it peaks and plateaus within their first few years of teaching. William Slotnik and Bryan Goodwin explain that school systems need to abandon this conventional wisdom and instead build true talent development systems that support the…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Teacher Competencies, Expertise, Faculty Development
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Kurum, Gul; Cinkir, Sakir – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2019
Purpose: Inspection and evaluation in education gained a different dimension with the implementation of concepts such as accountability, transparency and effectiveness to educational organizations. School self-evaluation is put into practice based on evidence in cooperation with stakeholders in order to develop and improve schools accordingly. The…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Groups), Models, School Effectiveness, Public Schools
Goree, Krystal; Williams, Yolanda; Hamilton, Suzanne; Mathews-Perez, Amy; Talbert, Sandra; Strot, Rick; Barrett, Sara; Bolfing, Darlene; Miller, Sue; Almaguer, Dora; Gilbreath, David; Martinez, Donna; Rubio, Belinda; Ward, Victoria; Edison, Ricky; Henry, Marsha; Mechell, Rebecca; Pritchard, Melissa; Welsh, Kaitlin – School-University Partnerships, 2019
The PDS partnership between Baylor University and Waco Independent School District commenced in 1993 in the context of a national conversation about innovations for improving teacher preparation and practice. During its 25-year history, the partnership has garnered national recognition, with Hillcrest PDS serving as one of 18 representative PDS…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation, Universities, School Districts
Berg, Jill Harrison; Horn, Peter; Supovitz, Jonathan A.; Margolis, Jason – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2019
Education leaders are perennially seeking new ways to build the capacity of teachers to enhance learning experiences for all students. Teacher leadership, which we define as teachers' support of the improvement of teaching and learning beyond their own classroom, has long been a source of interest and experimentation (Wenner & Campbell, 2017;…
Descriptors: Classification, Teacher Leadership, Leadership Role, Awards
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Wright, Mary C.; Schram, Laura N.; Gorman, Kristen S. – To Improve the Academy, 2015
Effective consulting is a key skill for educational developers. Although most educational developers are new to the field, there is limited research about how new practitioners develop consulting skills. The key research question this study explores is: How do new graduate teaching consultants develop as practitioners? This study empirically…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Educational Development, Consultants, Models
Meyer, Bob – Independent School, 2015
Author Bob Meyer, head of the Fay School (Texas) compares professional development strategies in his school to programs in other schools, which he feels are mostly prescriptive in nature, and are based on a deficit model--focused on fixing, rather than developing--and, thus, are not always inspiring. Here Meyer describes the professional…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Models, Learner Engagement, School Culture
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