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Longhurst, Max L.; Jones, Suzanne H.; Campbell, Todd – Teacher Development, 2017
Understanding factors that impact teacher implementation of learning from professional development is critical in order to maximize the educational and financial investment in teacher professional learning. This multi-case qualitative investigation elucidates factors that influence the appropriation of instructional tools associated with…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Social Theories, Communities of Practice, Technology Uses in Education
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Jao, Limin; McDougall, Doug – Teacher Development, 2016
The Collaborative Teacher Inquiry Project was a professional development initiative that sought to improve the teaching and learning of Grade 9 Applied mathematics by encouraging teachers to work collaboratively. The project brought together Grade 9 Applied mathematics teachers from 11 schools across four neighboring public school boards in the…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Secondary School Teachers, Faculty Development, Grade 9
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Bahous, Rima; Busher, Hugh; Nabhani, Mona – Teacher Development, 2016
This study to investigate how teachers develop their skills and knowledge to construct enthusiastic student learning and what part school principals play in that development was carried out in four primary schools serving disadvantaged communities in Beirut. In the absence of rich research in Lebanon on this topic, western literature was used to…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development, Professional Identity, Skill Development
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Kooy, Mary – Teacher Development, 2015
This paper reports on a longitudinal study of nine teachers and their principal in a new secondary school that met to select, read, discuss and determine the viability of the text for their growing English classes and the library. This research offered a unique opportunity to examine how practitioners create and develop a social context for…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Secondary School Teachers, Principals, Communities of Practice
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Stamelos, Georgios; Bartzakli, Marianna – Teacher Development, 2013
Quality in education is considered to be a central aim as far as the formation and the implementation of educational policy worldwide is concerned. The basic prerequisite for it, though, is quality culture. Collaborative networks between school advisors and primary school teachers are examined to reveal how they can affect the formation of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Social Networks, Network Analysis
Leonard, Jack – Teacher Development, 2014
College readiness is a social construct requiring both student and adult preparedness. This paper used a case study methodology to explore how teaching in an early college program might promote adult college readiness in the instructors. A community of practice, enhanced by a co-teaching model, in two separate high school settings under one early…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, College Readiness, Cross Cultural Studies, Case Studies