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Lacey, Emily A. B.; Ogletree, Billy T.; Rice, Tracie; Rose, Amy – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2017
This brief clinical exchange article supports the use of milieu training (MT) as a communication treatment option for adults with severe intellectual disabilities (SID). It examines aspects of MT that appear well matched to the communication and other abilities of adults with SID. It also provides an argument that MT is not unlike functional…
Descriptors: Milieu Therapy, Adults, Severe Intellectual Disability, Communication Skills
Beaton, Anne M. – Educational Leadership, 2017
Once instructional coach Anne Beaton began creating chances for teachers to get into one another's classrooms to observe and learn about different teaching styles, she realized that not only is studying one another's teaching practices as a community essential in serving students, it also lifts teachers up as leaders. Beaton knew she was learning…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Program Design, Faculty Development, Training Methods
French, Dan; Berry, Barnett – Voices in Urban Education, 2017
Micro-credentials, a new form of personalized professional development for teachers, offer a unique solution to the challenge of training school staff to design and implement performance assessments. In a relatively short period of time, micro-credentials have shown promise in enabling a more personalized, effective method of promoting teacher…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Individualized Instruction, Faculty Development, Training Methods
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Wunderlich, Kara L.; Vollmer, Timothy R. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2017
The current study compared the use of serial and concurrent methods to train multiple exemplars when teaching receptive language skills, providing a systematic replication of Wunderlich, Vollmer, Donaldson, and Phillips (2014). Five preschoolers diagnosed with developmental delays or autism spectrum disorders were taught to receptively identify…
Descriptors: Receptive Language, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Preschool Children
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Anderson, Emily J.; Roop, Kelsey; MacArthur, Stacey – Journal of Extension, 2017
This article identifies key strategies for selecting and training chaperones for youth programs. Although substantial research on volunteer core competencies and training exists, very little has been written to specifically address volunteers who serve in a chaperone capacity. We surveyed chaperones who had participated in an international youth…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Selection Criteria, Change Strategies, Training Methods
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Sewell, Claire; Kingsley, Danny – New Review of Academic Librarianship, 2017
The nature of academic librarianship is changing as librarians move away from the curation of material and into research support roles. Although this creates new opportunities it can be difficult for staff to learn the skills needed. The Office of Scholarly Communication at Cambridge University seeks to address this issue with the Research Support…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Capacity Building, Library Science, Professional Development
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Denny, Marina D'Abreau – Journal of Extension, 2017
The Adult Mentoring Assessment for Extension Professionals will help mentors develop an accurate profile of their mentoring style with adult learners and identify areas of proficiency and deficiency based on six constructs--relationship, information, facilitation, confrontation, modeling, and vision. This article reports on the reliability of this…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Extension Agents, Mentors, Training Methods
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Mampane, Sharon Thabo – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2017
The purpose of this conceptual explanatory research is to highlight the importance of training of Middle Managers or Heads of Department (HoDs) in leadership and management in South African public schools. Leadership responsibilities in schools are becoming more complex to the extent that principals can no longer be sole leaders in schools. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle Management, Management Development, Public Schools
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Strom, Kathryn; Haas, Eric; Danzig, Arnold; Martinez, Eligio; McConnell, Kathleen – Educational Forum, 2018
In this essay, the authors argue that by using perspectives such as critical posthumanism to inform teacher preparation, educators can develop leaders in schools and beyond who can be a central part of an effort to think and live differently in a deeply polarized, "post-truth" era. They present four examples that describe specific…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Thinking Skills, Capacity Building, Administrator Education
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de Paor, Cathal; Murphy, Timothy R. N. – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2018
Teacher research has been identified as a transformative model of CPD. However, as illustrated in the OECD's TALIS study, while teachers recognise the benefits of classroom enquiry for their own work, their participation in it is low. This paper examines the possible reasons for this discrepancy by considering the views of Irish teachers surveyed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Needs Assessment, Teacher Surveys, Online Surveys
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Sakkoulis, Dimitris P.; Asimaki, Anna; Vergidis, Dimitris K. – International Education Studies, 2018
The purpose of this paper is the investigation of the prevailing forms of in-service training, the detection of the dominant pedagogical discourse they promote as well as their contribution to the shaping of the teacher's individual theory of education (I.T.E.). The research was conducted using semi-structured interviews with a sample of 11…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Educational Theories, Semi Structured Interviews, Training Methods
Williamson, Avery; Sutherland, April F.; Villegas, Gena – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This project consists of a problem-based learning project centered on the level of teacher and administrator preparedness in identifying, preventing, and reporting bullying in the state of Missouri. New legislation mandates districts to provide training to staff to prepare them for addressing bullying, which has become a concern in the United…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Bullying, Prevention, Identification
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Higginson, Kelsey; Barney, David – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2016
Swimming is a low-impact activity that causes little stress on joints so it can be done for a lifetime. Many teachers may wish to teach swimming but do not have cues or ideas for doing so. This article reviews swimming cues, relays and equipment that can help a physical education teacher include a swimming unit in their curriculum. Certification…
Descriptors: Cues, Physical Education, Aquatic Sports, Guidelines
Karch, Anne Sontag – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This dissertation is a case study of a professional development effort in a large urban school district over the course of one school year. With their district identified for improvement under the requirements of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 2001, district leaders were under pressure take corrective action. As part of their plan…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Urban Schools, School Districts, School Administration
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Barnes, Jonathan; Paterson-Brown, Lucy – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
Introduction: Malawi is one of the world's poorest countries with very limited healthcare spending and a lack of post-graduate training for healthcare workers, including in critical illness management. Critical illness simulation courses have been shown to be an effective training tool and form a key part of training for healthcare professionals…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Services, Patient Education, Simulation
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