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Lynch, David; Yeigh, Tony; Woolcott, Geoff; Peddell, Lewes; Hudson, Suzanne; Samojlowicz, Darius; Markopoulos, Christos; Bui, Vinh; Willis, Royce – Australian Mathematics Education Journal, 2020
This article outlines a Teacher of Mathematics Identity (ToMI) framework as an innovative theoretical foundation for supporting teachers of mathematics in regional, rural and remote (RRR) Australia. The framework is based on the identification of systemic challenges and provision of adaptive solutions, beginning with localised challenges faced in…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Professional Identity, Rural Areas, Geographic Isolation
Maher, Jeff; Burroughs, Christina; Dietz, Laurel; Karnbach, AnneMarie – Journal of Staff Development, 2010
This article describes how teachers who were once isolated by distance and the nature of their jobs are connecting across schools in online professional learning communities. While riding the wave of technology, St. Mary's County Public Schools in Leonardtown, Maryland, is providing a connection for teachers that extends beyond school walls.…
Descriptors: Fine Arts, Teaching (Occupation), Professional Development, Geographic Isolation
Reading, Chris – Australian Educational Computing, 2010
Connecting with other education professionals is important in supporting teacher learning. Teachers in remote locations in Australia experience a professional isolation due to geographic isolation that makes it difficult to engage in sustained collaborations with other teachers. In a national project ICT was used to assist these teachers by…
Descriptors: Professional Isolation, Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Geographic Isolation
Burns, Mary – Journal of Staff Development, 2010
Community has taken on a new meaning for several school-based coaches spread across Indonesia. For far too long in developing countries, educators have been forced to rely on one-shot centralized professional development for teachers and those who work with them. A shortage of money, locally trained staff, and access to learning materials has made…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Online Courses, Educational Technology
Lataille-Demore, Diane – Education Canada, 2003
A training and teaching tools development project aims to help multigrade classroom teachers in remote areas of Ontario. The project presents multiple instructional strategies, such as collaborative learning, differentiated teaching, and subject integration. Sixty teaching activities, created and tested by teachers, are contained on a CD that will…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Foreign Countries, Geographic Isolation, Material Development
Taylor, Pauline – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2002
The Indigenous Education and Training Alliance (IETA) is a staff college of Education Queensland (Australia), which brokers and delivers teacher professional development around state policies on Indigenous education. IETA's work to support policy on literacy education and English language learning for Indigenous students focuses on development of…
Descriptors: Aboriginal Australians, Educational Policy, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Active Learner: A Foxfire Journal for Teachers, 1998
The experiences of two teachers describe how BreadNet, an online professional-development and educational conference, enables teachers with similar interests to work together and maintain a sense of community. BreadNet allowed their rural schools to participate in projects with distant schools, leading to improvements in the quantity and quality…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Computer Mediated Communication, Distance Education, Electronic Mail
Herrington, Anthony; Herrington, Jan – 2001
In regional, rural, and remote areas of Australia, geographic and professional isolation take their toll on professionals, particularly in the first 5 years of practice. The attraction and retention of human service professionals and paraprofessionals in regional Australia is a significant problem affecting the sustainability and social cohesion…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Computer Mediated Communication, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries

Stevens, Ken – Rural Educator, 1993
Distance education can improve rural education by alleviating geographic isolation of small rural schools and increasing educational opportunities for both students and teachers. In Australia, distance education technologies include telecourses for staff development and an electronic mail and bulletin board system linking schools. (LP)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Distance Education, Educational Opportunities, Educational Technology
Press, Harold; Galway, Gerald; Collins, Alice – Education Canada, 2003
Newfoundland and Labrador has many rural communities, low literacy rates, high unemployment, declining enrollment and population, and teacher shortages. Policy responses have been to consolidate schools, increase rural teacher pay, increase teacher recruitment, implement distance learning and distance professional development, intensify…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Consolidated Schools, Distance Education, Educational Change

Fishbaugh, Mary Susan E. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1995
To restructure and strengthen special education services, Montana has supported growth of its Comprehensive System of Personnel Development (CSPD) Council at the state level and has initiated councils in its five special-education regions. Montana's organizational structure for CSPD and the systems approach used for state and regional strategic…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Geographic Isolation, Inservice Teacher Education, Professional Development
Pardes, Joan – Perspectives: A Journal of Research and Opinion about Educational Service Agencies, 2003
The Southeast Regional Resource Center serves all of Alaska's 53 school districts, many of them rural. Its itinerant special education personnel deliver services on-site and train teachers, paraprofessionals, and parents to deliver services. Video exchanges, telephone conversations, and Internet communications are used to monitor student progress,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Distance Education, Education Service Centers, Elementary Secondary Education
Cook, Rita C. – Perspectives: A Journal of Research and Opinion about Educational Service Agencies, 2003
Rural Kansas schools facing financial problems and demands for more accountability must cooperate to survive. Smoky Hill Education Service Center, representing 45 school districts, provides on-site staff development and online classes for students and staff, maintains a multimedia library, has a cooperative purchasing program, provides…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Distance Education, Education Service Centers, Educational Cooperation
George, Judith W. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 1996
At the British Open University (a distance education institution), rural tutors working in remote areas of Scotland felt that professional isolation interfered with self-assessment and professional development. Describes action research into student and tutor perceptions of teaching and learning that provides a basis for reflective teaching and…
Descriptors: Action Research, College Faculty, Distance Education, Feedback

Kliebard, Herbert M. – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1996
Observes the changes in public education that occurred along the Wisconsin frontier. As the territory progressed, education changed from a winter-term only enterprise lead by male farmer/teachers to a full term lead by professionally trained women teachers. Identifies professionalization as the greatest influence on the feminization of teaching.…
Descriptors: Community Development, Educational Change, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
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