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Wong, Jocelyn L. N. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2010
The concept of "professional learning community" (PLC) has been suggested as a tool to improve teachers' professional competency and students' learning outcomes since the mid-1990s. In such a community, teachers can share their individual practices with the aim of searching for "good practice" based on the outcome of collective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Competence, Teaching Methods
Hatch, Thomas – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2005
Teachers are the "lone rangers" of education. They are sequestered in their classrooms, unable to see what their colleagues are doing. All too often, good teachers have few, if any, opportunities to share their teaching techniques with others in their profession. Based on the development of the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Teaching Methods, Collegiality, Teacher Effectiveness
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Hines, S. Maxwell; Murphy, Maureen; Pezone, Michael; Singer, Alan; Stacki, Sandra L. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2003
The Hofstra University New Teachers' Network offers a multifaceted approach to university-based support for new teachers that also enhances the experience of students in its preservice teacher education program. This model is rooted in relationships that develop during preservice teacher education programs and has been successful at recruiting and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Characteristics, Discourse Communities