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Penelope A. Miller-Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Principals are essential in any institution of learning. Great schools do not exist in the absence of a great principal, which demonstrates the importance of strong leadership. However, due to complexities and the demanding nature of their jobs, there has been an increasing deficiency in the supply of these professionals. Schools have recorded…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Principals, Mentors, Professional Development
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Stawicki, Stanislaw P., Ed. – IntechOpen, 2022
Graduate medical education (GME) continues its decades-long evolution. Evidence-based approaches are increasingly transforming the way we educate, evaluate, and promote GME trainees. Key to this transformation is our ability to recognize that "medical education" constitutes a true lifelong continuum, beginning with pre-medical education,…
Descriptors: Graduate Medical Education, Coping, Emotional Intelligence, Coaching (Performance)
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Gardiner, Wendy – New Educator, 2017
This study seeks to contribute to the research on mentored induction by investigating the practices mentors employ in their work with new teachers in two high-need, high-poverty urban elementary schools. Informed by Schwille's (2008) temporal framework of "educative" mentoring practices occurring "inside" and…
Descriptors: Mentors, Teacher Attitudes, Professional Development, Teaching Methods
Williamson, Peter; Apedoe, Xornam; Thomas, Christopher – Urban Education, 2016
Urban teacher residencies have emerged as an innovation for recruiting, preparing, and retaining teachers for high-need urban schools. Though residencies aim to prepare teachers for specific urban contexts, we know little about how context is conceptualized in the teacher education curriculum or what teachers learn about it. This study finds that…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Teaching Models, Qualitative Research, Interviews
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Mark, Kelly – School-University Partnerships, 2017
This study examined the practices of four mentor teachers in a PDS context over the course of three months from March 2015-May 2015. The purpose of the study was to better understand and answer the following research questions: (1) What are the self-reported practices of mentors in the PDS context?; (2) Why do the mentors engage in these…
Descriptors: Mentors, Educational Practices, Faculty Development, Partnerships in Education
Scott, DeWitt T. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Since the creation of American higher education, the majority of the nation's colleges have been led, managed, and directed by White men. From the Boards of Trustees to the dean level, racial representation in higher education leadership has traditionally not included people of color. This lack of diversity in senior leadership is juxtaposed…
Descriptors: African Americans, College Presidents, Whites, Racial Differences
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Wallin, Dawn; DeLathouwer, Erin; Adilman, Jordan; Hoffart, Jessie; Prior-Hildebrandt, Kathy – International Journal of Teacher Leadership, 2017
This paper discusses the results of a qualitative study that examined the professional growth of undergraduate peer mentors as teacher leaders during an innovative Learning Community initiative designed for a teacher education program at the University of Saskatchewan. The paper describes the extent to which peer mentors exhibited characteristics…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Mentors, Qualitative Research, Teacher Leadership
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George, Daniel R.; Manglani, Monica; Minnehan, Kaitlin; Chacon, Alexander; Gundersen, Alexandra; Dellasega, Cheryl; Kraschnewski, Jennifer L. – American Journal of Health Education, 2016
Background: Fruit and vegetable prescription (FVRx) programs provide "prescriptions" for produce, but increased access to nutritional food may be insufficient for long-term behavior change. Purpose: We integrated nutritional education into an FVRx program at a farmers' market and community garden at Penn State Medical Center by pairing…
Descriptors: Mentors, Gardening, Focus Groups, Medical Students
Jefferson, Reese – ProQuest LLC, 2017
African American women have been underrepresented in leadership positions. The purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore leadership aspirations of African American women related to their perceptions of university racial climate. The theoretical framework for this study was the Black Feminist Thought theory. African American…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Womens Studies, Women Administrators, Racial Attitudes
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Cripps, Michael J.; Hall, Jonathan; Robinson, Heather M. – Across the Disciplines, 2016
The teaching assistantship is a venerable model for funding graduate studies, staffing undergraduate courses, and providing pedagogical support for emerging college and university instructors. In this article, we present a variation of this model of graduate student support: the WAC Fellowship at the City University of New York. Using survey data…
Descriptors: Writing Across the Curriculum, Fellowships, Graduate Students, Professional Development
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Velardi, Sara Hendrickson; Folta, Elizabeth; Rickard, Laura; Kuehn, Diane – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2015
Professional development workshops enable educators to increase their knowledge in an academic subject. With the publication of The Next Generation Science Standards, teachers are expected to be cognizant in science content and inquiry-based learning. This research study looked at workshops offered by New York Project Learning Tree®, an…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Workshops, Science Teachers, Case Studies
Clark, Patricia D. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This case study dissertation investigated the perceptions of mentor teachers in regard to their professional practice, teacher leadership, and workplace satisfaction. The researcher investigated the lived experiences of these teachers within the bounds of their prescribed relationships with a beginning teacher. This dissertation is motivated by…
Descriptors: Mentors, Case Studies, Rural Schools, High Schools
Warwick, Katherine A. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This qualitative phenomenological study was an investigation of the individual and collective experiences of a group of teachers in one rural elementary school. The study served to discover how one group of teachers interpreted and defined professionalism in education. Stratified purposeful sampling was utilized to select the 12 participants. Two…
Descriptors: Professionalism, Teacher Attitudes, Reflection, Phenomenology
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Black, Glenda L.; Olmsted, Barbara; Mottonen, Anna-Liisa – New Educator, 2016
Associate (mentor) teachers are essential partners in guiding teacher candidates into the profession; however, little training is offered for this critical role. This study explored, through the lens of self-determination theory, types of support and delivery most useful for successful mentorship during practicum. Online surveys and invited…
Descriptors: Mentors, Self Determination, Online Surveys, Teacher Surveys
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Evans, Linda – Higher Education Research and Development, 2014
Drawing upon findings from a UK-based and -funded study of academic leadership provided by (full) professors, this article focuses on research leadership as perceived by those on the receiving end of it. Research leadership is defined as the influence of one or more people on the research-related behaviour, attitudes or intellectual capacity of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Instructional Leadership, Mentors
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