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Lynn, Randy; Glynn, Jennifer – Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, 2019
Since 2012, the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation has supported educational enrichment in rural areas by awarding over $3.3 million in grants to six outstanding organizations operating in Iowa, Indiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. In this report, the authors combine the experiences of these organizations with findings from the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Rural Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrichment Activities
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Simon, Shirley; Campbell, Sandra; Johnson, Sally; Stylianidou, Fani – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2011
The research reported here set out to investigate the features in schools and science departments that were seen as effective in contributing to the continuing professional development (CPD) of early career science teachers. Ten schools took part in the study, selected on the basis of their reputation for having effective CPD practices. To gain…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Professional Development, Professional Continuing Education, Effective Schools Research
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Yamagata-Lynch, Lisa C.; Haudenschild, Michael T. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2009
This study took place in the United States and explored teacher perspectives on the situational factors that influence their professional development using Engestrom's (Engestrom, Y. (1987). "Learning by expanding: An activity-theoretical approach to developmental research". Helsinki: Orienta-Konsultit Oy) four levels of inner contradictions in…
Descriptors: Systems Analysis, Professional Development, Teacher Attitudes, Conflict
Shaw, Marie Keen – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to explore the professional learning process that teachers reported enhanced their use of technology in their classrooms. The framework for this qualitative, theory-building study was guided by research from the field of adult learning. Data were obtained from interviews of six teachers who worked in an urban science…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Educational Environment, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
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Pop, Margareta M.; Dixon, Patricia; Grove, Crissie M. – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2010
This study investigated teachers' motivation, expectations, and changes to teaching practices due to a 6 week summer professional development program involvement. Participants (n = 67) attended the Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) program within a major university in southeast. Surveys and interviews were used to collect data to answer the…
Descriptors: Teacher Motivation, Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Professional Development
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Pozuelos, Francisco; Trave Gonzalez, Gabriel; Canal de Leon, Pedro – Teaching Education, 2010
This paper describes a study into the implementation within two Spanish primary schools of an inquiry-based curricular project entitled "Exploring Our World" (ages 6-12). Taking the form of two case studies, it offers a description of the two participating schools and the development of the project within them. Particular attention is…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Teaching Methods, Active Learning, Inquiry
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Cheng, May May-hung; Yeung, Yau-Yuen – Teacher Development, 2010
This paper argues with evidence that conditions for teacher professional development can be enhanced for mentor teachers through a Learning Centre (LC) project which has been introduced in Hong Kong as a collaborative project between the government, a primary school, a secondary school, and the Hong Kong Institute of Education. The LC teachers…
Descriptors: Mentors, Interviews, Workshops, Foreign Countries
Iowa Department of Education, 2012
Case studies of Authentic Intellectual Work (AIW) in the Iowa project included four high schools that have been practicing this professional development model for the last five years. The schools, AHST Secondary School, Cedar Falls High School, Spencer High and Middle Schools and Valley High School were visited in April, 2011. The visits included…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Models, Professional Development, High Schools
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Lucas, Norman; Unwin, Lorna – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2009
This paper presents findings from a study of the experiences of in-service trainee teachers in colleges of further education in England on programmes run under the auspices of and through franchise arrangements with universities. It argues that there is a significant gap between the rhetoric of gaining teaching qualifications through a work-based…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Trainees
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Mitchell, Roland – Urban Education, 2010
This research documents and analyzes the nature and content of the knowledge that enables professors to foster learning for Black students. Specifically, it suggests that knowledge of the discourses of a students' community of origin, discourses often based on collective experience, are a valuable resource to professors in their efforts to promote…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Teacher Characteristics, Focus Groups, Educational Change
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Armstrong, Linda J.; Kinney, Katherine C.; Clayton, Lisa H. – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 2009
Teacher leadership is quite simply what teachers do for the good of children inside and beyond their classrooms. It is critical today to successfully reform schools and the profession. Inside the classroom, teacher leaders advocate for best practices and model expert teaching. Teacher leaders contribute to their professional community to improve…
Descriptors: Young Children, Educational Practices, Educational Change, Teacher Leadership
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Settlage, John; Southerland, Sherry A.; Smith, Leigh K.; Ceglie, Robert – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2009
This study examined the influence of field placements settings with varying demographic profiles on preservice elementary teachers. Data were gathered at three points during the participants' final year in their teacher preparation program in order to chart changes over time in science teaching self-efficacy beliefs. These measures were…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Self Efficacy, Student Diversity, Professional Development
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Kennedy, Aileen; Christie, Donald; Fraser, Christine; Reid, Lesley; McKinney, Stephen; Welsh, Mary; Wilson, Alastair; Griffiths, Morwenna – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2008
This article outlines the policy context for teachers' learning and continuing professional development in Scotland and considers this in relation to the perspectives of key informants gained through interview. The analysis draws on a triple-lens conceptual framework and points to some interesting contradictions between the policy text and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Interviews, Teacher Attitudes
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Baumfield, Vivienne M.; Hall, Elaine; Higgins, Steven; Wall, Kate – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2009
This paper investigates how the use of Pupil Views Templates (PVTs), a tool designed to elicit, record and analyse the development of students' awareness of their own learning processes, supports teachers' professional learning. This paper reports on a three-year collaborative practitioner enquiry project involving more than 30 primary and…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Foreign Countries, Teacher Researchers, Interviews
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Lofstrom, Erika; Eisenschmidt, Eve – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2009
This study explores Estonian novice teachers' perspectives on relationships with mentors and experiences of mentoring and mentors' tasks during their first year of teaching. The induction year with mentoring as one of the support structures was introduced into Estonian teacher education a few years ago. Experiences indicate that this is a valuable…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Mentors, Collegiality, Logical Thinking
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