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Brown, Gordon; Shaklee, Beverly – School-University Partnerships, 2014
This article attempts to describe the creation and implementation of the first Professional Development School (PDS) model of teacher education in Panama. The authors set the context within brief histories of international education and PDSs and provide operational definitions of the critical terminology. To be sure, the scope and scale of the…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, Developing Nations, Teacher Education Programs, Program Descriptions
Eberly, Jody L.; Joshi, Arti; Galen, Harlene – School-University Partnerships, 2009
Periodic reexamination of existing professional development school forms is good practice to ascertain whether goals are being met. Such an assessment was sparked by a request from a superintendent in a 14-year-old professional development school structure at a public college in the Northeast. This assessment revealed that although the…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, Public Colleges, Supervisory Methods, Educational Principles
Kapustka, Katherine M.; Damore, Sharon J. – School-University Partnerships, 2009
This research focuses on change processes. It considers how components of a change framework--namely, the concerns-based adoption model--can be used as diagnostic evaluation tools to examine how participants' attitudes and levels of participation affect the implementation of the professional development school model. This article demonstrates how…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, Urban Universities, Adoption (Ideas), Networks