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Ince, Amanda – Professional Development in Education, 2017
This article reports on the recognition and management of risk within the context of an intensive literacy intervention professional development programme, designed to enable expert literacy teachers become teacher-educators. The article suggests a conceptual model for recognising risk within professional learning opportunities and skills for…
Descriptors: Risk Management, Adult Education, Professional Education, Facilitators (Individuals)
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Turner, Fay; Brownhill, Simon; Wilson, Elaine – Teacher Development, 2017
A cascade model of professional development presents a particular risk that "knowledge" promoted in a programme will be diluted or distorted as it passes from originators of the programme to local trainers and then to the target teachers. Careful monitoring of trainers' and teachers' knowledge as it is transferred through the system is…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Models, Faculty Development, Transfer of Training
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Boyd, Pete – International Journal for Academic Development, 2010
In the UK, most initial nurse and teacher education is provided by university departments working in partnership with local health trusts and schools. New university lecturers in these professional fields are generally selected due to their successful performance as practitioners, as nurses or school teachers, rather than on more traditional…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, Beginning Teacher Induction, Foreign Countries
Woodward, Tessa, Ed. – Teacher Trainer, 2000
This journal is for those interested in modern language teacher training. Several aims are to provide a forum for ideas, information, and news, to put trainers in touch with each other, and to give those involved with teacher training a feeling of how trainers in other fields operate as well as building up a pool of experience within modern…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Harris, Mary – 1993
This monograph reports on the Planning Meeting of the Commonwealth Project on Improving the Quality of Science and Mathematics Education at the Basic Level which focused on the role of higher education. The purpose of the meeting was to make recommendations for improving the preparation and training of science and mathematics teachers for the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Curriculum Development, Educational Improvement, Educational Quality
Benn, Roseanne, Ed. – 1998
This document contains 19 papers presented at a conference on educating adult educators at the University of Exeter, England in July 1998. The following are included: "Themes and Issues in Training the Adult Educator" (Rosesanne Benn); "Training Adult Educators in Poland" (Tadeusz Aleksander); "Educating Teacher…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Art Education, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
Woodward, Tessa, Ed. – The Teacher Trainer: A Practical Journal Mainly for Modern Language Teacher Trainers., 1999
This document includes the following articles: "How To Avoid Being a Fly on the Wall"; "Problem-Solving Strategies for Mentors"; "Support Materials for CEELT Courses: The Pedagogic Potential of Past Papers"; "EFL Teachers Solving Their Own Dilemmas"; "The Editor Talks to the President of TESOL";…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Inter-University Council for Higher Education Overseas, London (England). – 1978
The following articles and reports are presented in this publication of "Overseas Universities:""Appropriate Technology and University Education," by John Twidell; "The Training of Engineering Staff for Higher Education Institutions in Developing Countries," by D. W. Daniel, C. A. Leal, J. H. Maynes and T. Wilmore;…
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Administration, College Faculty, College Planning
Tuxworth, Eric N. – 1982
In this report, the author reviews the actual and potential use of competence and performance based teacher education (C/PBTE) in regard to further education in England. He describes the concept of further education, reviews existing practices, and makes a number of suggestions for future action. The author first outlines the development and use…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Competence, Competency Based Teacher Education, Continuing Education