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Cheryl J. Craig; Paige Evans; Donna Stokes; Leah McAlister-Shields; Gayle A. Curtis – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2024
This article presents a multi-layered approach to mentoring within an urban secondary teacher education program in the mid-southern United States. The featured case focuses on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), although multi-layered mentoring could occur in other subject areas or in general preservice teacher education. The…
Descriptors: Mentors, Urban Schools, Secondary School Teachers, STEM Education
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Meirink, Jacobiene A.; Meijer, Paulien C.; Verloop, Nico – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2007
A considerable amount of current research on teaching and teacher education focuses on teacher collaboration. Teacher collaboration is presumed to be a powerful learning environment for teachers' professional development. However, empirical research about how teachers actually learn in collaborative settings is lacking. In this study, learning…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Teacher Collaboration, Communities of Practice, Foreign Countries
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Craig, Cheryl J. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2007
This article connects teachers' experiences of reflective school portfolio development to the idea of teachers' knowledge communities, the different groups and individuals with whom teachers negotiate meaning for their stories of experience, lived and told, and re-lived and re-told, over time. The reflective analysis makes the case that the…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Portfolio Assessment, Communities of Practice, Teaching Experience
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Zyngier, David – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2007
This article examines contemporary research and debates about pedagogies of engagement that challenge the traditional assumptions and understandings of engagement. Three contesting epistemological constructions of student engagement are identified and examined through the contesting and resisting voices of teachers and students. The article's…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Academic Achievement, Learner Engagement, Epistemology
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Tillema, Harm; van der Westhuizen, Gert J. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2006
In this article knowledge productivity, a process that creates conceptual artifacts, is used as a way to investigate the outcomes of collaborative and enquiry-oriented activity by teaching professionals. It is an outcome of the motivation to learn (self-regulation) in that it studies the issues from different professional perspectives (reflection…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Work Environment, Professional Development, Teacher Collaboration
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Conca, Lydia M.; Schechter, Carlota P.; Castle, Sharon – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2004
Elementary teachers engaged in weekly conversations about their students' writing. Conversations were guided by a protocol that began with an assessment of students' writing samples and then moved to the generation of instructional ideas. The conversations were analyzed for what the teachers talked about and the extent to which they generated…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Familiarity, Instructional Effectiveness, Alignment (Education)