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Ford, Timothy G.; Van Sickle, Mary Elizabeth; Clark, Lynn V.; Fazio-Brunson, Michelle; Schween, Dorothy C. – Educational Policy, 2017
Currently, a significant number of states are in the process of implementing a high-stakes teacher evaluation (HSTE) system. In many ways, Louisiana's teacher evaluation system, "Compass," is typical of the models that many states have adopted. This article reports the experiences of 37 elementary teachers from five districts across…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Motivation, Longitudinal Studies
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Ford, Timothy G.; Ware, Jordan K. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2018
Few studies that examine organizational conditions conducive to teacher learning utilize social-psychological theory to explain how leader actions specifically support teachers' psychological needs as learners. We apply self-determination theory to the conceptualization of a new construct, Teacher Self-Regulatory Climate (TSRC), defined as a set…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Theories, Individual Needs, Educational Environment
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Tadic, Aleksandar – Research in Pedagogy, 2015
This paper points to the necessity to conduct researches of contextual conditions of teachers' behavior in classroom, using the framework of the self-determination theory, according to which styles of teachers' behavior toward students is correlated with their satisfaction of psychological need for autonomy in school. We analyzed different…
Descriptors: Satisfaction, Professional Autonomy, Classroom Techniques, Discipline
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Paul-Binyamin, Ilana; Gindi, Shahar – British Journal of Religious Education, 2017
This study investigated the tension that exists between promoting an educational agenda and practising an educational approach which emphasises autonomy within the framework of religious education. Our main thesis is that every educational deed contains a dialectical tension between endorsing an educational agenda and the promotion of autonomy.…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Educational Change, Personal Autonomy, Foreign Countries
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Chen, Qi; Wright, Clare – Language Teaching Research, 2017
In view of ongoing debates about the future of task-based language teaching (TBLT) in contexts of English as a foreign language (EFL), we present a detailed case study of teacher beliefs and practices regarding TBLT conducted in a secondary school in mainland China with a long history of communicative and task-based teaching approaches. We used a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Task Analysis, English (Second Language)
Salley, Carla M. – Online Submission, 2010
The purpose of this quantitative study was to identify the various factors contributing to teacher attrition at Alston Middle School and the ones that may reduce it. The participants in this study were fourteen teachers presently at Alston Middle School in Summerville, South Carolina. Teachers that were employed at Alston during the 2009 to 2010…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Persistence, Faculty Mobility, Middle School Teachers