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Direct linkJonathan Lovell; Brent Duckor; Carrie Holmberg – English Journal, 2015
The authors argue that to help beginning teachers improve their practice, they (as teacher educators) must acknowledge their ongoing development toward becoming professional educators in the school communities they inhabit and with the students they serve. This piece cites numerous examples of teachers reflecting over a two-year period on their…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Beginning Teachers, Experienced Teachers, Revision (Written Composition)
Earls Larrison, Tara; Korr, Wynne S. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2013
This article contributes to discourse on signature pedagogy by reconceptualizing how our pedagogies are understood and defined for social work education. We critique the view that field education is social work's signature pedagogy and consider what pedagogies are distinct about the teaching and learning of social work. Using Shulman's…
Descriptors: Social Work, Teaching Methods, Educational Strategies, Learning Strategies
Lewis, Catherine; Perry, Rebecca; Foster, David; Hurd, Jacqueline; Fisher, Linda – Educational Leadership, 2011
The authors assert that lesson study--a collaborative, teacher-led approach to learning from practice--offers a deeper, broader, more sustainable method of improving teacher practice than one-on-one coaching does. In lesson study, teachers and coaches of all levels of experience can work together, each bringing his or her own professional…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Teaching Methods, Professional Development, Coaching (Performance)
Kesson, Kathleen R.; Henderson, James G. – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2010
Almost a hundred years ago, John Dewey clarified the relationship between democracy and education. However, the enactment of a "deeply democratic" educational practice has proven elusive throughout the ensuing century, overridden by managerial approaches to schooling young people and to the standardized, technical preparation and professional…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Democracy, Educational Practices, Professional Development
Casey, Katherine – Educational Leadership, 2011
As teachers learn new pedagogical strategies, they crave explicit demonstrations that show them how the new strategies will work with their students in their classrooms. Successful instructional coaches, therefore, understand the importance of modeling lessons to help teachers develop a vision of effective instruction. The author, an experienced…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Coaching (Performance), Change Strategies, Protocol Materials
Educational Leadership, 2011
This article presents prominent educators who describe the most important quality of an effective teacher. Sonia Nieto, professor at Emerita, Language, Literacy, and Culture University of Massachusetts, argues that in this age of hubris and shameless self-promotion, humility is an essential quality for teachers to have. Joseph Semadeni, fifth…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Best Practices, Educational Strategies
Download full textSchulz, Christine – Australian Association for Research in Education (NJ1), 2012
Across the globe many nations have found engaging young people in the post compulsory years of school to ensure their transition into economic citizens is challenging. Governments are focusing on developing initiatives and programs to connect young people in education and training as preparation for the workplace. In Australia the use of Applied…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Capacity Building
Podulka, Michelle; Witort, Ron – Learning & Leading with Technology, 2009
Should teachers sacrifice class time for professional development? Two authors present their arguments to this question. The first author contends that teachers should definitely use class time for professional development. Technology is changing and growing all the time, and it is their job to prepare students for the world they will inherit.…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Teaching Methods, Literary Criticism, Persuasive Discourse
Marbach-Ad, Gili; McAdams, Katherine C.; Benson, Spencer; Briken, Volker; Cathcart, Laura; Chase, Michael; El-Sayed, Najib M.; Frauwirth, Kenneth; Fredericksen, Brenda; Joseph, Sam W.; Lee, Vincent; McIver, Kevin S.; Mosser, David; Quimby, B. Booth; Shields, Patricia; Song, Wenxia; Stein, Daniel C.; Stewart, Richard; Thompson, Katerina V.; Smith, Ann C. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2010
This essay describes how the use of a concept inventory has enhanced professional development and curriculum reform efforts of a faculty teaching community. The Host Pathogen Interactions (HPI) teaching team is composed of research and teaching faculty with expertise in HPI who share the goal of improving the learning experience of students in…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Microbiology, Educational Change, Learning Experience
White, Harold B. – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2009
In this commentary, the author contends that, if teaching became less private and faculty interacted with each other about teaching more in the way they discuss research, the quality of education would improve. He discusses some ways to facilitate that interaction. In the author's own experience, actually sitting in on a course taught by a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Peer Evaluation, Professional Autonomy, Teaching Styles
Mitchell, Sidney N.; Reilly, Rosemary C.; Logue, Mary Ellin – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2009
Beginning teachers are confronted with many issues as they begin their teaching careers, issues, such as classroom management, individual differences, behaviour problems, dealing with parents, and so on. Many beginning teachers take professional development seminars in an attempt to deal with these and other issues. Professional development…
Descriptors: Mentors, Action Research, Beginning Teachers, Professional Development
Bennett, Robert B., Jr. – Journal of Legal Studies Education, 2010
Legal studies faculty need to take the long view in their academic and professional lives. Taking the long view would seem to be a cliched piece of advice, but too frequently legal studies faculty, like their students, get focused on meeting the next short-term hurdle--getting through the next class, grading the next stack of papers, making it…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Lifelong Learning, Ethics, Teaching Methods
O'Brien, Jim – Professional Development in Education, 2011
This paper reflects on the development of teacher continuing professional development (CPD) in Scotland, a constituent part of the United Kingdom that now has significant devolved powers within the United Kingdom--from a time when INSET was ill-coordinated and unvalued to the present reliance on CPD, with substantial investment, as the agent of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Teaching Methods, Professional Continuing Education
Garbe, Christine; Moore, David W.; Stephens, Jennifer – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2010
Christine Garbe, a professor at the Institute for German Language and Literature Education at Leuphana University in Lueneburg, Germany, initially focused her research on youth's socialization as readers. Her professional textbooks in this area are innovative. International comparisons of youth's reading achievement drew her attention to…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Professional Development
Stehlik, Tom – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2010
This article presents the author's response to "An Experiment in Method" by J.L.J. Wilson. In 1960-61 Wilson was invited to give lectures on "modern techniques in adult education" as part of a training school for those involved in the work of developing "Co-operatives for Aborigines" which were sponsored by the…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Adult Education, Problem Solving, Adult Learning
