NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 10 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Eisuke Saito – Professional Development in Education, 2024
Professional learning may be the most significant when the teacher feels fundamentally challenged and questioned about their practices, beliefs, or identities. In this paper, the elements that cause such fundamental challenges and questions -- disruptions -- are called 'disruptive hooks'. In the process of addressing such disruptive hooks,…
Descriptors: Teachers, Professional Development, Inquiry, Learning Processes
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Salomé Martínez; Helena Montenegro – Professional Development in Education, 2025
For educators, identifying and characterising problems in their teaching practice is essential for triggering inquiries into their practice. Knowing what educators consider problematic is essential for generating strategies for situated approaches to help teacher educators manage their problems and promote professional learning. In this study, we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Teachers, Educational Practices, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Kvam, Edel Karin – Professional Development in Education, 2023
This study investigates teachers' understanding of how conversations between colleagues can promote the development of knowledge. Its purpose is to supplement previous research in the field of knowledge processes in respect of conversation as an integral part of teachers' everyday work. On the basis of interview data obtained from teachers in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Collaboration
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Jawad Golzar; Mir Abdullah Miri; Mostafa Nazari – Professional Development in Education, 2024
Despite a burgeoning body of research on teacher identity development, little is known about how incongruities between the ideal and real-life teaching practices create identity tensions. The present study adopted an arts-based approach and examined teachers' ideal and actual teaching practices, and the associated identity tensions and related…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, Professional Identity, Second Language Instruction
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Corina González-Weil; María Isabel Reyes-Espejo; Paulina Bravo González; Felipe Acuña Ruz; Fabián Fernández Araneda – Professional Development in Education, 2025
Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) are valuable spaces for collaboration and reflection to promote the transformation of teaching practice and resilience to change. In PLCs that are sustained over time, trust-building is a key element. In Latin America, school systems and educational models are based on mistrust, which in Chile is consistent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Science, Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Douglas P. S. Andrews – Professional Development in Education, 2024
Teachers face numerous challenges in their efforts to be pedagogically responsive to students' different learning needs. I extend scholarship in the field by exploring the potential of implementing a nuanced, collaborative intervention strategy called knotworking to facilitate teachers' ongoing professional development (PD). The heuristic of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Professional Development, Teacher Collaboration
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Frida Grimm – Professional Development in Education, 2024
Teacher leaders are increasingly leading learning conversations in professional learning communities (PLCs) in schools in several parts of the world today, but there is little empirical knowledge of teacher leadership in PLC conversations. Thus, this article aims to enhance such knowledge, particularly the development of teacher leadership in PLC…
Descriptors: Teacher Improvement, Teacher Leadership, Communities of Practice, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Jin, Xinglin; Li, Tongji; Meirink, Jacobiene; van der Want, Anna; Admiraal, Wilfried – Professional Development in Education, 2021
Novice-expert interaction plays an important role in teacher professional development for Chinese vocational education and training (VET). Both Chinese and international research shows that expert-teachers' support is associated with the improvement of novice-teachers' teaching. However, insights into how exactly novice teachers learn with the…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Experienced Teachers, Expertise, Professional Development
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Lambert, Louise – Professional Development in Education, 2021
In this paper, I propose shifts in perspective and practice in initial teacher education from the reflective to the diffractive practitioner as a productive way of supporting new teachers to prepare for the complex and non-linear nature of teaching. The reflective practitioner is a figure deeply embedded in humanist and anthropocentric discourses,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Educational Practices, Teacher Competencies, Reflective Teaching
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Chang, Sharon – Professional Development in Education, 2021
The Change Laboratory methodology offers the potential to support expansive learning in preservice bilingual teacher education. This qualitative case study examines how ten preservice Chinese and Korean bilingual teachers, who participated in a Change Laboratory intervention, engaged one of the major Change Laboratory instruments, the four-field…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Bilingual Teachers, Korean, Preservice Teacher Education