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Alsarawi, Aeshah – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2023
Saudi Arabia has officially recognized learning disabilities as a new category of disability since 1996. The Saudi government has since developed policies to meet the needs of students with learning disabilities in the least restrictive environments. With the growing population of these students in Saudi schools, this search is thus focused on…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Learning Disabilities, Student Needs
Floyd, Alan – Professional Development in Education, 2022
Over recent years, the professional development review process has risen in importance in universities with such exercises being shown to have a positive effect on student learning, staff motivation, recruitment and retention. However, they may also be perceived as a controlling mechanism and part of a culture of 'performativity', which implies a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Program Evaluation, Universities
Silva-Robles, Rigoberto; Dutton-Treviño, Harold Sidney – Teaching Public Administration, 2023
The purpose of this work is to provide empirical evidence as to how state level Freedom of Information or Access to Information and data protection regulator bodies in Mexico carry out their training tasks. We use different theoretical assumptions, particularly those that refer to the idea of "training in the public sector" regarding two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Access to Information, Information Security, Public Administration Education
Talal Alasmari; Abdulrahman Alzahrani – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2024
The purpose of this study is to explore the current status of micro-credentialing policies and practices in Middle Eastern and North African universities. Using a quantitative approach and a comprehensive questionnaire based on recent work by the Australasian Council on Open, Distance, and e-Learning (as reported by ACODE, Survey of…
Descriptors: Universities, Credentials, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy
Call, Kairen; Christie, Michael; Simon, Sue E. – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2021
Professional standards for teachers are being used around the globe to educate, certify, promote and regulate the ongoing professional practice and learning of teachers. In Australia, the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST), in part, aim to support the professional learning of teachers from the Graduate to Lead Teacher career…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Professional Development, Standards
Kadenge, Emure – Perspectives in Education, 2021
The main aim of this paper is to explore an approach to beginner teacher induction in a Johannesburg, South Africa education district's induction programme. It focuses on how the idea of beginner teacher induction is conceptualised by examining the district induction programme's teaching form and foci. Data were collected through interviews with…
Descriptors: School Districts, Central Office Administrators, Public Schools, Beginning Teacher Induction
Pham, Huong Thi; Nguyen, Cuong Huu – Quality in Higher Education, 2020
Quality assurance in higher education has been introduced in Vietnam to improve the quality of the entire sector. Academics are considered key players in the reform plan of the Vietnamese government. This paper discusses the development of the Vietnamese quality assurance approach in higher education reform and how it could be further developed to…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Quality Assurance, Educational Quality, Professional Development
Appel, Margie – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2020
Serious damage to teacher professionalism is being triggered by the current performance dominated culture caused by neoliberal global conditions (performativity) in Australian schools. Many teachers are feeling severely compromised in their ability to offer quality teaching to their students. It is imperative that education policy makers and…
Descriptors: Job Performance, Teacher Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Professionalism
Ramlal, Adesh; Jones, Don; Kingston, Kathleen – Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 2020
In the education system in Trinidad and Tobago, only 60% of students are achieving mastery in literacy and numeracy as documented by national tests. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore principals' experiences leading strategic planning designed to increase achievement in literacy and numeracy in eight high-performing primary…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Elementary Schools, Principals, Strategic Planning
Nawab, Ali – Journal of International and Comparative Education, 2020
Both experience and studies suggest that teachers in rural Pakistan either show reduced interest towards Professional Development (PD) or if they avail limited PD opportunities, they hardly bring any significant changes in their instructional practices. One of the assumptions in this regard, although not proved empirically, is that the system…
Descriptors: Accountability, Teacher Evaluation, Professional Development, Inservice Teacher Education
Lester, Stan – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2014
Competence frameworks and standards are increasingly used by professions in the UK, driven by pressures for professional accountability, and particularly by the trend towards assessing practice before fully-qualified status is granted. A review of 40 UK frameworks indicated that most are concerned primarily with the ability to undertake work…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Standards, Foreign Countries, Accountability
Sachs, Judyth – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2016
It is now more than 10 years after the publication of the monograph, "The Activist Teaching Profession," which, at the time, could be described as a call to action for the teaching profession. I reflect here on how far has the profession progressed in responding to that call to action. The idea of a "call to action" could be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professionalism, Teaching (Occupation), Professional Education
Liasidou, Anastasia; Antoniou, Androniki – School Leadership & Management, 2015
This article is concerned with exploring the ways in which head teachers' leadership for social justice is understood and enacted within the context of inclusion. Head teachers' leadership praxis is influenced by individual understandings of social justice, as well as dominant institutional realities and policy priorities that indicate the extent…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Inclusion, Leadership, Praxis
Hedegaard-Soerensen, Lotte; Tetler, Susan – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2016
This article reports on findings of a study which objective is the development of an instrument for systematic evaluation and improvement of the quality of teaching in special schools. The article describes the research process which led to the construction of the instrument as well as the way teachers can use the instrument to improve the quality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Special Schools, Educational Quality, Educational Practices
Zein, Mochamad Subhan – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2016
This study was conducted to identify suggestions to improve PD programmes held by government-based training agencies to help enhance Indonesian EYL teachers' instructional practice. For the purpose of the study, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 51 participants. The findings suggest the theorisation of a PD model that involves complex…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Foreign Countries, Job Training, Elementary Education