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Sheppard, Julie Trammell – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this qualitative case study is to examine the perceptions of teachers and curriculum specialists over the effectiveness of professional development and available resources of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) implementation process in Arkansas. Arkansas divided the implementation process into three stages: Phase I implemented…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development
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Coffin, Prarthana – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2013
Staff development is a crucial element for educational intervention. Recognizing the importance of staff development, this study aims to pin-point suitable methodologies in developing a Problem-Based Learning (PBL) academic staff development program for a higher education institute where PBL has become an intervention alternative. The study aims…
Descriptors: Program Development, Problem Based Learning, Specialists, Workshops
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Quatroche, Diana J.; Wepner, Shelley B. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2008
This article reports on the results of a survey examining the perceptions of university faculty regarding the importance of graduate programs preparing reading specialists for a leadership role. The results of the survey indicate that slightly more that half of the programs require a leadership course and less than half of the reading specialist…
Descriptors: Reading Consultants, Specialists, Program Development, Reading Instruction
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Al Otaiba, Stephanie; Hosp, John L.; Smartt, Susan; Dole, Janice A. – Journal of Educational & Psychological Consultation, 2008
The purpose of this case study is to describe the challenges one coach faced during the initial implementation of a coaching initiative involving 33 teachers in an urban, high-poverty elementary school. Reading coaches are increasingly expected to play a key role in the professional development efforts to improve reading instruction in order to…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Improvement, Focus Groups, Reading Achievement
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Choy, Susan P.; Chen, Xianglei; Bugarin, Rosio – National Center for Education Statistics, 2006
In developing the 1999-2000 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), a special effort was made to include questions that would help determine the extent to which the characteristics of professional development policies and practices were consistent with the emerging consensus on the key features of professional development as described by Hawley and…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Principals
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Godfrey, Athleen B. – Infants and Young Children, 1995
This article relates experiences and insights gained by a nurse educator directing the University of Utah College of Nursing's Utah Early Intervention Personnel Preparation project, a graduate-level interdisciplinary program to prepare early intervention specialists. Recommendations are offered for development of preservice or inservice…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Early Intervention, Graduate Study
Hezel, Richard T.; Neubert, Nancy Malecek – 1977
Instructional Television (ITV) program evaluation interviews were conducted with administrators, teachers, and media specialists in a junior and a senior high school serviced by the Allegheny Educational Broadcast Council (AEBC). From these interviews, factors which contribute to the use or non-use of ITV in secondary schools were identified.…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Case Studies, Educational Problems, Educational Technology