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The Role of Departmental Leadership for Professional Learning Communities
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Vanblaere, Bénédicte; Devos, Geert – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2018
Purpose: Department heads play a pivotal role in the functioning of departments in secondary schools. However, quantitative research about the role of departmental leadership for the development of professional learning communities (PLCs) in subject departments in secondary schools remains scarce. As PLCs are seen as promising contexts for…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Regression (Statistics), Foreign Countries, Departments
The Role of Environmental Factors in Beginning Teachers' Professional Learning Related to Differentiated Instruction
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De Neve, Debbie; Devos, Geert – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2016
Little research has investigated factors that facilitate beginning teachers' participation in professional learning activities related to differentiated instruction (DI). This study examines environmental factors for DI learning activities in a sample of 272 beginning teachers from 72 primary schools. Multilevel analyses show that teacher…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Beginning Teachers, Faculty Development, Individualized Instruction