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Erickson, Katie Erin – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This qualitative phenomenological study was developed to fill the gap in current research on what extent five teacher educators, from three Midwest and one Southwest teacher education program, are preparing English Language Learner (ELL) preservice teachers to collaborate in ELL teacher education. The results indicate that ELL teacher educators…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Teacher Educators, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
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Dam, M.; Janssen, F. J. J. M.; van Driel, J. H. – Research in Science Education, 2018
The implementation of educational reforms requires behavioral changes from the teachers involved. Theories on successful behavioral change prescribe the following conditions: teachers need to possess the necessary knowledge and skills, form strong positive intentions to perform the new behavior, and have a supporting environment for change.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Intention, Teacher Behavior, Teacher Motivation
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Witterholt, Martha; Goedhart, Martin; Suhre, Cor – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
Due to changes in Dutch mathematics education, teachers are expected to use new teaching methods such as enquiry-based teaching. In this study, we investigate how teachers design, implement and evaluate new methods for statistics teaching for 7th-graders during a professional development trajectory based on peer collaboration. We monitored…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Statistics
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Raad, Nawal Abou; Chatila, Hanadi – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2016
This paper investigates Lebanese grade 7 biology teachers' mathematical knowledge and skills, by exploring how they explain a visual representation in an activity depending on the mathematical concept "Function". Twenty Lebanese in-service biology teachers participated in the study, and were interviewed about their explanation for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Biology
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Sifakakis, Polychronis; Tsatsaroni, Anna; Sarakinioti, Antigone; Kourou, Menie – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2016
This article explores the localisation of the global and European discourse of educational governance in the Greek education system through the changes that have been introduced in the field of education administration since 2009 by the then socialist government. Our research aims to contribute to the critical policy literature on the spreading…
Descriptors: Governance, Educational Change, Educational Administration, Foreign Countries
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Spreen, Carol Anne; Knapczyk, Jillian J. – FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education, 2017
Although global initiatives have brought attention to the lack of quality in education systems worldwide; the question remains, how do we implement quality education? Teachers, a vital component of the education process, are not usually included in these global conversations; this results in government initiatives missing key obstacles faced by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Implementation, Context Effect, Educational Quality
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Harte, Wendy; Reitano, Paul – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2015
This research tracked the confidence of 16 undergraduate and postgraduate pre-service geography teachers as they completed a single semester, senior phase geography curriculum course. The study focused specifically on the pre-service teachers' confidence in geographical subject matter knowledge and their confidence in teaching geographical skills.…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Self Efficacy, Geography Instruction
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Sickel, Aaron J.; Friedrichsen, Patricia – School Science and Mathematics, 2015
The purpose of this three-year case study was to understand how a beginning biology teacher (Alice) designed and taught a 5E unit on natural selection, how the unit changed when she took a position in a different school district, and why the changes occurred. We examined Alice's developing beliefs about science teaching and learning,…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Context Effect, Longitudinal Studies, Beginning Teachers
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Duong, Van Anh; Chua, Catherine S. K. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2016
Vietnam universities have experienced remarkable changes brought about by their internationalization policies. The switch to English as a medium of instruction (EMI) for some academic programs was one of these critical changes. Literature has reported numerous issues related to EMI, including inadequate language proficiency of teaching staff. This…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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Callahan, Cory; Saye, John; Brush, Thomas – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2015
This article advances a continuing line of inquiry into the potential of digital educative curriculum materials to support teachers' development of professional teaching knowledge. Instead of standalone levers of change, the educative curricula in this study were featured resources within a novel professional development approach. The qualitative,…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Professional Development, Teacher Effectiveness
Adams, Susan R. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study seeks to understand the meaning of the experiences of a group of nine diverse educators who participated in a five-day, residential, intensive seminar known as the Teaching for Educational Equity (TFEE) seminar in 2010. Particular attention is devoted to a small subset of four educators who have continued to meet and work together…
Descriptors: Race, Equal Education, Feminism, Ethnography
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Zhu, Zhiyong; Fan, Xiaohui – Chinese Education and Society, 2012
After the launch of the new curriculum reforms at the beginning of the new millennia, teachers were expected to transform their conceptions of education by absorbing ideas such as "dual subjectivity," "democratic equality," "scientific inquiry," "collaborative learning," and so on. What sorts of conceptions…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teacher Student Relationship, Educational Change, Reflection
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Yeung, Yau-Yuen; Lee, Yeung-Chung; Lam, Irene Chung-Man – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2012
With the restructuring of the senior secondary education system in Hong Kong in 2009, the senior secondary curriculum was overhauled substantially by the conversion of the two-year Certificate Level and the two-year Advanced Level to a new three-year senior secondary level. This process entails changes to the contents and organization of various…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Science Teachers
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Duffield, Stacy; Wageman, Justin; Hodge, Angela – Journal of Social Studies Research, 2013
A causal-comparative, mixed methods design was used to study a partnership between a university and school district formed with the goal of improving history teachers' United States history content knowledge to raise student engagement and achievement. Data were collected from middle and high school history teachers including teacher interviews,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Learner Engagement, Teaching Methods, United States History
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Scherer, Marge – Educational Leadership, 2012
In this wide-ranging interview with Educational Leadership, Stanford University Professor of Education Linda Darling-Hammond discusses the kind of preparation and support new teachers need to survive their critical first years in the classroom. Among her central recommendations are more intensive mentoring that lasts through the first year of…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Models, Educational Needs, Teacher Education Programs
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