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Murphy, Cliona; Smith, Greg; Mallon, Benjamin; Redman, Erin – Environmental Education Research, 2020
Research suggests that innovative and engaging professional development is instrumental in supporting teachers in developing their competence and confidence in teaching sustainability. An international initiative was developed to explore whether a competencies-oriented Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) professional development model was…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Active Learning, Inquiry
Gleason, Sonia Caus; Gerzon, Nancy – Corwin, 2013
What makes a Title I school high-achieving, and what can we all learn from that experience? Professional learning and leadership that supports personalized instruction makes the difference, as captured in the ground-breaking research of authors Sonia Caus Gleason and Nancy Gerzon. This illuminating book shows how four outstanding schools are…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Schools, High Achievement, Professional Education, Individualized Instruction
Murphy, Clíona; Mallon, Benjamin; Smith, Greg; Kelly, Orla; Pitsia, Vasiliki; Martinez Sainz, Gabriela – Environmental Education Research, 2021
Transformative teacher education can support educational experiences which provide the opportunity for pupils to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes to contribute towards tackling the significant sustainability issues with which we are faced. It is argued that for professional development programmes to be effective they need to improve…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Professional Continuing Education, Teacher Education, Transformative Learning
Miller-Tiedeman, Anna – Career Development Quarterly, 2008
In quantum physics, whatever is observed is changed; therefore, it is all perception. Given those findings and to save Tiedeman from interpretation, in this article, he speaks for himself in 5 areas: (a) his professional credo, (b) the Harvard Studies in Career Development, (c) the 1983 Assembly to Advance Career, (d) statistics of vocational…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Career Development, Professional Development, Professional Education
Grimes, Peter – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2013
This article explores the barriers to and opportunities for supporting the development of inclusive teachers, based on a case study describing two schools in Bangkok, Thailand. Data were collected between 2003 and 2009 using an ethnographic approach whereby the author positioned as a consultant-researcher visited and worked alongside teachers in…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Professional Continuing Education, Inclusion, Case Studies
Rix, Jonathan; Paige-Smith, Alice – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2011
The need for reflection is widely written about and positioned as a key aspect of continuing professional development. This paper examines the manner in which practitioners are encouraged to be reflective within the English system and the barriers they face. It questions whether such a complex, reaffirming system can allow for genuine critical…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Ethnography, Educational Change, Barriers
Sugrue, Ciaran – Professional Development in Education, 2011
Consistent with the impact of globalisation and international social movements in general, the rather conservative and stable educational system in Ireland has been buffeted severely over the past two decades by a major acceleration in the pace of change and the extent of policy churn. Now that the Celtic Tiger has died, it is a time for…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Transformative Learning, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Drago-Severson, Eleanor; Pinto, Kristina C. – 2003
This report describes a study of the human-resource challenges of principals in facilitating teachers' transformational learning, and their creative strategies for overcoming such challenges. The purpose of the study was to examine how a diverse sample of school leaders made sense of teacher learning and to examine their efforts to support the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Human Resources, Inservice Teacher Education
Cranton, Patricia – 1996
This book draws on recent scholarship in adult education to provide practical ideas for adult educators on how to stimulate and support their own development as educators and better understand the process of professional development as adult learning. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the diverse contexts within which educators work and the nature…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Critical Thinking, Educational Change
Kennedy, Aileen – Journal of In-service Education, 2005
The area of teachers' continuing professional development (CPD) is of growing interest internationally. However, while an increasing range of literature focuses on particular aspects of CPD, there is a paucity of literature addressing the spectrum of CPD models in a comparative manner. This article therefore considers a wide range of international…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Educational Change, Professional Development, Professional Continuing Education
Kerka, Sandra – 2003
An evidence-based connection between adult educator professional development (PD) and learner outcomes is difficult to document, yet there is an intuitive assumption that professional development is linked to better teaching and learning outcomes. The field appears to be shifting away from one-shot PD to practitioner engagement in sustained,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Evaluation Problems