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Smart, Fiona; Loads, Daphne – International Journal for Academic Development, 2017
As pressures on new academic staff members increase and change, academic developers need to find different ways of working with them. This paper offers for discussion a new way of supporting early career academics in their negotiation of liminality, the betwixt and between space separating old and new roles. We call this innovative approach…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Beginning Teacher Induction, Innovation, Models
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Turner, Fay; Brownhill, Simon; Wilson, Elaine – Teacher Development, 2017
A cascade model of professional development presents a particular risk that "knowledge" promoted in a programme will be diluted or distorted as it passes from originators of the programme to local trainers and then to the target teachers. Careful monitoring of trainers' and teachers' knowledge as it is transferred through the system is…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Models, Faculty Development, Transfer of Training
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Zehetmeier, Stefan – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2015
This paper deals with a crucial topic: which factors influence the sustainability and scale-up of a professional development programme's impact? Theoretical models and empirical findings from impact research (e.g. Zehetmeier and Krainer, "ZDM Int J Math" 43(6/7):875-887, 2011) and innovation research (e.g. Cobb and Smith,…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Faculty Development, Program Effectiveness, Performance Factors
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Cox, Dana C.; D'Ambrosio, Beatriz S. – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2015
In the course of engaging with a Mathematics and Science Partnership (MSP) project, we planned a yearlong Leadership Academy that fit under the "train the trainers" model for professional development. Midway through, teacher leaders rejected a traditional conception of leadership based on expertise, individualism, and the transmission of…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Mathematics Teachers, Faculty Development, Models
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Lotter, Christine; Smiley, Whitney; Thompson, Stephen; Dickenson, Tammiee – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
This study investigated a professional development model designed to improve teachers' inquiry teaching efficacy as well as the quality of their inquiry instruction through engaging teachers in practice-teaching and reflection sessions. The programme began with a two-week summer Institute focused on both inquiry pedagogy and science content and…
Descriptors: Models, Faculty Development, Training Methods, Middle School Teachers
Mandinach, Ellen B.; Gummer, Edith S. – WestEd, 2012
There's much talk about using data to inform education decision-making, both in and beyond the classroom. This paper examines the landscape of data literacy, based on a meeting in May 2012 which brought together the foremost researchers and professional development providers in the field of data-driven decision-making in education. The meeting…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Data Analysis, Faculty Development, Data
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Meng, Junyi; Tajaroensuk, Songphorn; Seepho, Sirinthorn – International Education Studies, 2013
The increasing need to learn English worldwide leads to the rapid development in the field of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL). Teachers in this profession are required to reach a much higher level of professionalism now, and their in-service professional development can be an effective approach to updating their professional learning…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Coaching (Performance), Peer Teaching
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Burke, Brigid M. – Journal of Experiential Education, 2013
An experiential approach to professional development (EPD) allowed Spanish teachers opportunities to improve their practice through demonstration, observation, collaboration, fieldwork, and reflection. As result of "experiential" professional development, Burke (2012) found that teachers' knowledge about communicative language teaching…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Faculty Development, Training Methods, Models
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Flint, Amy S.; Kurumada, Katie Simon; Fisher, Teresa; Zisook, Karla – Professional Development in Education, 2011
The present article discusses the impact of a localized and generative model of professional development on the teaching lives of two American elementary school teachers and a university research team. Within the framework of the ethic of care, the study focused on the construction of relationships between university team members and teachers that…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Faculty Development, Professional Development, Higher Education
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Shafer, Kathryn G. – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2008
This paper reports the results of a doctoral research pilot study that paired a researcher with an experienced classroom teacher for a 12-week time span with the goal of effectively integrating the use of Geometer's Sketchpad (GSP) into the classroom teacher's practice. Using a teacher development experiment, the researcher created an…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education, Doctoral Programs