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Emmajane Milton; Alexandra Morgan – Professional Development in Education, 2023
There is strong evidence that professional learning in schools can positively impact learner experience and outcomes. This conceptual paper draws on key literature focused on understandings of high-quality professional learning and what makes an excellent environment in which to learn. This literature informed and spoke to the sense-making of our…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Faculty Development, Administrators
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Van Mieghem, Aster; Verschueren, Karine; Struyf, Elke – Professional Development in Education, 2023
The move to include students with special educational needs (SEN) in mainstream education is one of the priorities of educational reform agendas in many countries. Also in Flanders (Belgium) the government's aim is to implement a more inclusive school system, but this faces some resistance from practitioners. This study examines the way in which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Inclusion, Equal Education
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O'Brien, Shivaun; McNamara, Gerry; O'Hara, Joe; Brown, Martin – Professional Development in Education, 2022
This study explores the development and implementation of a professional development intervention for teachers in data-use as part of a whole school self-evaluation (SSE) process. A review of literature relating to professional development in general and data-use in particular informs the key features of the intervention which is tested in five…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Program Development, Program Implementation, Data Use
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Lim, Joanna; Fickel, Letitia; Greenwood, Janinka – Professional Development in Education, 2022
In this narrative inquiry, we will explore teachers' professional inquiry in New Zealand. We begin by outlining context-related issues that undergird the propagation of professional inquiry and provide a chronological portrayal of how inquiry originated as a form of teacher learning. Then, we apply a narrative lens on one teacher's experience of…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Attitudes, Personal Narratives, Inquiry
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Main, Katherine; Pendergast, Donna – Professional Development in Education, 2017
An evaluation of the effectiveness of a large-scale professional development (PD) programme delivered to 258 schools in Queensland, Australia is presented. Formal evaluations were conducted at two stages during the programme using a tool developed from Desimone's five core features of effective PD. Descriptive statistics of 38 questions and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
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Pedrosa-de-Jesus, Helena; Guerra, Cecília; Watts, Mike – Professional Development in Education, 2017
This study followed the academic growth of four university teachers, over a two-year period, with the intention of enhancing inquiry-based learning in practice. Data were generated within the natural settings of classrooms, laboratories and lecture halls, through the analysis of teaching materials, low-participation observation, informal…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Reflective Teaching, Faculty Development, Educational Practices
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McLeod, Naomi – Professional Development in Education, 2015
This paper explores whether teachers' habits and assumptions about their practice can be enhanced by continued professional development through nurturing self-awareness of lived experiences. Within the paper a practical understanding of critical reflection as a process is explored and particular attention is given to Moon's assertion that one…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Participation, Young Children, Reflection
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Bakah, Marie A. B.; Voogt, Joke M.; Pieters, Jules M. – Professional Development in Education, 2012
While teachers and administrators in polytechnics in Ghana have categorically expressed the growing need for the former's knowledge and skills to be updated in the era of polytechnic transformation, little attention has been paid to the subject. This study reports a professional development intervention organised for 16 engineering teachers…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Professional Development
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Haßler, Björn; Hennessy, Sara; Cross, Andrew; Chileshe, Eness; Machiko, Brian – Professional Development in Education, 2015
This paper reports on the development and outcomes of the second phase of OER4Schools, a school-based professional development programme supporting interactive forms of subject teaching in conjunction with Open Educational Resources (OER) and technology in Zambian primary schools. We worked with partners to identify the needs of school-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Resources, Elementary Education, Continuing Education
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Gröschner, Alexander; Seidel, Tina; Kiemer, Katharina; Pehmer, Ann-Kathrin – Professional Development in Education, 2015
For developing professional development (PD) programs, research suggests referring to effective components. In developing a PD program on classroom dialogue, we explored to what extent effective components could be addressed. We conducted a study with two groups. In the "Dialogic Video Cycle" (DVC), six German teachers participated in a…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Teaching Methods, Intervention
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Williamson, Zoe; Robinson, Gillian – Professional Development in Education, 2009
The present article reports on a cooperative research with a small group of teachers studying for a professionally accredited master's degree (MTeach), leading to the professional award of Chartered Teacher status, at a Scottish university. The aim of the study was to explore teachers' perceptions of the impact made on them and their practice as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Experienced Teachers, Active Learning, Professional Development
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Davies, Dan – Professional Development in Education, 2010
This article reports on issues arising from the external evaluation of a teacher development project--the Active Learning in Primary Science (ALPS) project--undertaken in eight Bristol (UK) primary schools during 2007. The ALPS project aimed to raise pupil attainment in science by developing participating teachers' skills, knowledge and enthusiasm…
Descriptors: Hands on Science, Active Learning, Program Effectiveness, Faculty Development