Evaluation capacity building, or ECB, is an area of great interest within the field of evaluation as well as in Extension evaluation. Internal Extension evaluators have long offered training and technical assistance to help Extension educators conduct evaluation. Today ECB in Extension encompasses myriad activities and processes to advance…

College reading/language arts instructors are often involved in local reading associations, often state affiliates of the International Reading Association. Providing support for local councils is a natural area for professional service among college instructors. This paper presents information, ideas, and procedures for organizing a conference,…

This article examines approaches which are used to validate experiential competencies in technical education. The two most common approaches to credentialization are discussed. The importance of nonacademic experiences in credentialing is examined, and several assessment models are described. (CT)

Consideration of the qualities of good teaching leads to a new model that emphasizes the importance of sense making to professional development. A strong core of qualities that assist teachers in using sense making includes strength, confidence, balance, ballast, and value maturity. (Contains 27 references.) (SK)

Provides assessment-driven, six-stage professional development model that links adult-learning goals with student-learning outcomes. (PKP)

Discusses continuing education and personal support for first-year teachers as necessary extensions of preservice education. Focuses on the role of higher education in this process, and suggests theoretical frameworks that can provide direction for research on ways to enable teachers to continue to learn. (RJC)

Examines how schools replicate or interrupt exclusionary or discriminatory practices based on a study of Latino school administrators in San Diego County (California). Presents a model of the interaction between Latino educational administrators and the sentiment within the educational community that places educator identity and professional…

Describes the use of video simulation for teachers' self-assessment of their training needs in five teaching skill areas. Explains the diagnostic/prescriptive training model for teacher professional development; simulation-based assessment, including feedback reports; and developing a teacher professional development program. (LRW)

Article argues that the values and beliefs of the consumer-survivor recovery movement are closely aligned with those of the social work profession, and the movement offers social workers a more promising perspective from which to practice. Primary concepts and values of the evolving recovery paradigm are delineated; implications for direct…

Proposes a conceptual model that implies that occupational therapy professional behaviors develop sequentially through stages that begin during the educational process of occupational therapists and progress through their career. Provides a framework for educators and supervisors to nurture professional behaviors of students and clinical novices…

The ENVISION professional development model uses active teacher involvement in inquiry and inquiry-based teaching to enhance teachers' understandings about inquiry-based study of local environmental problems and teaching science using inquiry. Teachers also design and implement professional development for their school-based colleagues about…

The aim of the Central Michigan University Alpena-Montmorency-Alcona Teaching American History (TAH) Project has been to forge a model of professional development that would not merely improve teachers' knowledge of events, people, and dates, but to go beyond this to strengthen the understanding of the nature and practice of historical thinking,…

This article describes the efforts of the University of South Florida's Department of Special Education to change its approach to educating special education teachers, by making a total commitment to align its work with public schools in developing a network of Professional Development Schools to reflect a collaborative model of training and…

The proliferations of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and an increase in the number of external students and of the digital youth have put considerable pressure upon university staff to adopt ICT in their pedagogy. However, these challenges that include ICT technical skills and pedagogy require staff to continuously engage in…

This paper presents the results of a collaborative project between the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney, Australia, and the School of Education at Can Tho University, Vietnam. The project aimed to develop a model for the professional development of teacher educators in the context of educational innovations in…