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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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Zhang, Xiaolei; Wong, Jocelyn L. N. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2018
Studies of professional development have examined the influence of school-based approaches on in-service teacher learning and change but have seldom investigated teachers' job-embedded learning processes. This paper explores the dynamic processes of teacher learning in school-based settings. A qualitative comparative case study based on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Inservice Teacher Education
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Ciampa, Katia; Gallagher, Tiffany L. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2016
This case study research reports on elementary (grade 8) and secondary school (grade 9) teachers' participation in job-embedded, professional learning and engagement in collaborative inquiry. Teachers constructed an inquiry-oriented media literacy unit following the collaborative inquiry model. The current study sought to investigate how…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Inquiry, Literacy, Self Efficacy
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Newman, Linda; Mowbray, Susan – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2012
This paper describes a process in which early childhood professionals, who were novice researchers, engaged in their own research projects in collaboration with academics through a practitioner inquiry group. The aim of the project was to introduce the concepts and practices of practitioner enquiry, and learn about, plan and implement a…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Early Childhood Education, Research Projects, Teacher Researchers
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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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Zellermayer, Michal; Tabak, Edith – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2006
This action research is targeted at academic researchers who facilitate the construction of communities of enquiry in school-university partnerships and are interested in understanding the process of such an enterprise as well as the knowledge constructed within such communities. Our action research study provides a possible road map for such a…
Descriptors: Action Research, Collegiality, Teacher Researchers, Communities of Practice