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Xiong, Wang – Online Submission, 2013
This article focused on a deeper analysis of pre-service teachers' observations of video lessons based on the authentic classrooms across three stages in eight sessions in order to reveal their changes in the abilities to understand pedagogical content knowledge and the effects of specific observation frameworks introduced in the observation…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Video Technology, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Classroom Observation Techniques
Kim, Mina; Kang, Bokyung – Online Submission, 2012
This study was designed to explore how Korean preschool and kindergarten teachers understand teacher research and utilize it in professional development. Two teachers, two site directors, and one district supervisor were interviewed in South Korea. Data were collected in multiple ways: (1) open-ended individual interviews; (2) participants'…
Descriptors: Action Research, Kindergarten, Teacher Education Programs, Foreign Countries
Kariuki, Cheryl – Online Submission, 2009
Changing a child's life through education is by far the greatest gift an educator can give to a student. Every child deserves the opportunity to receive an education. Yet, some children are denied this privilege every day. Teachers play many roles in a child's life. On the first day of school when a child walks into a classroom, he is putting his…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Teacher Student Relationship, Classroom Environment, Professional Development
Richards, Michelle K. – Online Submission, 2009
Whenever there is a discussion on closing or bridging the achievement gap in education, one accurately reasons that the "gap" in question is among groups of students from various cultural and/or socioeconomic backgrounds. Stakeholders throughout academia, then, frantically search for solution(s)" to poor student achievement in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Professional Development, Instructional Leadership, Achievement Gap
Ducharme, Daphne; Leblanc, Raymond; Bourassa, Michelle; Chevalier, Jacques – Online Submission, 2011
This article describes a collaborative research study of university researchers and Grades one and two teachers from an Ontario, Canada French-language School Board. The School Board offered phonological awareness and reading-teaching training to grades one and two teachers with a long-term goal of improving the reading outcomes of the students in…
Descriptors: Participatory Research, Acculturation, Phonological Awareness, Foreign Countries
Smith, Yolanda E.; Kritsonis, William Allan – Online Submission, 2006
Like practitioners in other professional fields, educators must keep au courant with the emerging knowledge and must be prepared to use it to continually fine-tune their conceptual and craft skills. Is there a difference between the professional development training experienced by teachers' verses the professional development provided to other…
Descriptors: Public Education, Professional Development, Industry, Teaching (Occupation)