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Understanding Teachers' Professional Learning Needs: What Does It Mean to Teachers and How Can It Be Supported?
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Cooper, Rebecca; Fitzgerald, Angela; Loughran, John; Phillips, Michael; Smith, Kathy – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2020
Professional learning is a significant focus of discussion in most schools but it is not all that common for these conversations to be informed by teachers' needs and expectations. Instead, they tend to be driven by external factors, such as accreditation, mandated professional development requirements and policies. Based on an in-depth study of a…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Inservice Teacher Education, Educational Needs, Secondary School Teachers
Leading Professional Learning in Schools: Emotion in Action
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Mitchell, Jane; Riley, Philip; Loughran, John – Teacher Development, 2010
School leadership and teacher professional development are two well-defined fields of research within the education literature, yet there is relatively little research that has examined the leadership of teachers' professional development and learning. The study reported in this paper seeks to understand the experience of teachers who have…
Descriptors: Workshops, Politics of Education, Faculty Development, Professional Development
Capturing and Enhancing Science Teachers' Professional Knowledge
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Berry, Amanda; Loughran, John; Smith, Kathy; Lindsay, Simon – Research in Science Education, 2009
This paper reports research from a three-year Australian science teacher professional learning project, the Science Teaching and Learning (STaL) Project, in which groups of science teacher participants (across years K-12) worked with academics over a one-year period as teacher researchers. Through reflecting on their experiences within the STaL…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Science Teachers, Teacher Researchers, Professional Development
Professional Development for Science Teachers: A School Based Approach.
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Loughran, John – Science Education International, 1993
Outlines an attempt to respond to some findings from the Science Education Professional Development Project (SEPD). Discusses factors affecting teachers' views of professional development, minimal relationship between professional development activities and shifts in teacher pedagogy, and school-based professional development. (JRH)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Science Education
Loose Connections: The Context of Science Teachers' Work.
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Ingvarson, Lawrence; Loughran, John – Research in Science Education, 1997
Explores the problems that a national strategy for the professional development of science teachers attempted to address, and reports on the theme of "loose connections" that emerged. Highlights the weak sense of professional community found among science teachers and their isolation from potentially beneficial influences on their work.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Communication (Thought Transfer), Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
Researcher as Teacher: Practical Inquiry and Formal Research.
Loughran, John; Northfield, Jeff – 1995
This paper provides the material for an interview/discussion of the teacher as researcher involved in a self-study of his own teaching activity. Opening sections describe the original self-study conducted by a teacher over the course of the 1993 school year while teaching secondary school math and science in Australia. These sections also briefly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Improvement, Journal Writing, Mathematics Education