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Eisuke Saito – Professional Development in Education, 2024
Professional learning may be the most significant when the teacher feels fundamentally challenged and questioned about their practices, beliefs, or identities. In this paper, the elements that cause such fundamental challenges and questions -- disruptions -- are called 'disruptive hooks'. In the process of addressing such disruptive hooks,…
Descriptors: Teachers, Professional Development, Inquiry, Learning Processes
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Mei Kin, Tai; Abdull Kareem, Omar – Asian Journal of University Education, 2021
The main objective of the study was to examine the implementation of Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) in Malaysian secondary schools. The study was conducted by using quantitative method whereby a total of 971 principals, senior assistants and teachers were involved in the survey. The descriptive statistical analysis was employed to obtain…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Program Implementation, Professional Development, Secondary School Teachers
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Lund, Lea – Improving Schools, 2020
Research in the field of professional development (PD) stresses the importance of the development of professional learning communities (PLCs) designed to promote the process of inquiry in teaching. PLCs are of great importance with regard to both school improvement and in-service teacher training. This article shows that it is possible to teach…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Communities of Practice, Reflective Teaching, Inquiry
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McGowan, Kevin; Christenson, Lea Ann; Muccio, Leah – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2021
Three early childhood teacher educators from different institutions engaged in a collaborative self-study to explore the role of empathy in preservice teacher professional development. The two-fold purpose of the study was to: (1) develop and refine their practices to build teacher candidates' empathy in their interactions with children, families,…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Teacher Collaboration, Communities of Practice
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Kerkhoff, Shea – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2020
Global challenges require international collaboration in order to solve, as Covid 19 exemplifies. In order to oppose xenophobia and promote global solidarity as the world fights this pandemic, teachers need professional development on global learning. Analysis of data collected during an online course that integrated global learning and a variety…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Case Studies, Professional Development, World Problems
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Solis, Rachel; Gordon, Stephen P. – i.e.: inquiry in education, 2020
This study sought to determine how three teachers experienced learning when engaged in ongoing reflective inquiry regarding their teaching beliefs, teaching behaviors, and the comparison of those beliefs and behaviors. Three case studies describe teachers writing educational platforms, comparing their platforms to their classroom behaviors, and…
Descriptors: Reflective Teaching, Professional Development, Teacher Behavior, Inquiry
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Pando, Magdalena; Aguirre-Muñoz, Zenaida – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2021
This article is a qualitative study that explored bilingual/ESL science teachers' reflections about subject matter knowledge (SMK) and instructional practice in the elementary grades. Thirty-three teachers were part of a 5-year professional development program designed to enhance instructional quality and effectiveness to teach English learners.…
Descriptors: Case Method (Teaching Technique), Professional Development, Inservice Teacher Education, Science Teachers
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Todd-Gibson, Christine – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2017
This qualitative case study examined how middle school science teachers conducted collaborative inquiry and reflection about students' conceptual understanding, and how individual teachers in the middle school science group acted and made reflections in response to their collaborative inquiry. It also examined external influences that affected the…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Science Teachers, Inquiry, Reflection
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Svendsen, Bodil – Teacher Development, 2016
The aim of this study was to find out how science teachers who have participated in a one-year school-based collaborative teacher professional development programme, perceive the programme's impact on their professional development. Constant comparative analysis was used on data from three schools to generate the findings in this study. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Teachers, Professional Development, Teacher Education Programs
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Pella, Shannon – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2015
A common theme has been consistently woven through the literature on teacher professional development: that practice-based designs and collaboration are two components of effective teacher learning models. In addition to collaboration and practice-based designs, inquiry cycles have been long recognized as catalysts for teacher professional…
Descriptors: Affordances, Evidence Based Practice, Professional Development, Inquiry
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Grimmett, Helen – Studying Teacher Education, 2016
Contemporary approaches to pre-service teacher education and in-service teachers' professional development increasingly reflect the general paradigm swing in education, advocating for dialogic co-construction of understandings of teaching and learning rather than monologic telling of how to be a teacher or how to improve teaching practice.…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Professional Development, Reflective Teaching
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Martell, Christopher C. – Teaching Education, 2016
Using critical constructivism as the theoretical lens, the teacher educator-researcher used practitioner research to systematically examine the experience of PreK-12 teachers in his district-based teacher research professional development course, while also examining his development as a teacher educator. The results of this study showed that, as…
Descriptors: Teacher Researchers, Teacher Educators, Professional Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Todd-Gibson, Christine – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This qualitative case study examined how middle school science teachers conducted collaborative inquiry and reflection about students' conceptual understanding, and how individual teachers in the middle school science group acted and made reflections in response to their collaborative inquiry. It also examined external influences that affected the…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Science Teachers, Qualitative Research, Case Studies
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Hooley, Neil – Review of Education, 2013
All education proceeds within a complex array of epistemological and ontological factors that constitute a shifting and intricate learning environment for teachers, pre-service teachers and school students alike. We have expanded a "praxis inquiry" protocol into a "critical praxis" protocol for use in pre-service programs. A…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Praxis, Educational Theories, Educational Practices
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Minott, Mark A. – Professional Development in Education, 2010
The broad purpose of this self-study is two-fold: first, to aid in redressing the lack of attention given to the professional development of teacher educators; and second, to forward the idea that teaching reflectively is not only an excellent framework through which self-directed professional development can be enacted, but it is also an…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Professional Development, Reflective Teaching, Independent Study
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