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Gibson, Sharan A. – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2011
This study analyzed coaching conversations and interviews of four coach/teacher partnerships for specific ways in which kindergarten and first-grade teachers, and coaches, conceptualized instructional scaffolding for guided reading. Interview transcripts were coded for coaches' and teachers' specific hypotheses/ ideas regarding instructional…
Descriptors: Expertise, Educational Opportunities, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Coaching (Performance)
Horn, Ilana Seidel; Little, Judith Warren – American Educational Research Journal, 2010
The authors investigate how conversational routines, or the practices by which groups structure work-related talk, function in teacher professional communities to forge, sustain, and support learning and improvement. Audiotaped and videotaped records of teachers' work group interactions, supplemented by interviews and material artifacts, were…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Educational Practices, Professional Development, Protocol Materials
Miller, Matthew James – Teacher Educator, 2009
This study investigates the preservice teacher learning in the context of conversations about their field-based challenges. First, a review of the literature explores studies that highlight the role of evidence-based conversation as a mechanism to approach the inevitable problems faced by teachers in the classroom. The subsequent case study…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Speech Communication, Professional Development
Park, Soonhye; Oliver, J. Steve; Johnson, Tara Star; Graham, Peg; Oppong, Nicholas K. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2007
This study investigated the nature of interaction among teachers that occurred around the National Board certification (NBC) process and how that collegial interaction influenced teachers' professional development. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 14 teachers who were either considering NBC, in the process, or had been awarded NBC.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Interaction, Discourse Communities, Teacher Certification
Leach, Tony – Pastoral Care in Education, 2009
The research described in this paper is part of a wider exploration of organisational learning and some of the social-psychological mechanisms which underlie the individual-organisation learning relationship. Adopting a grounded theory approach, qualitative data were obtained during email interviews with 15 foundation degree students concerning…
Descriptors: Teaching Assistants, Professional Development, Learning Activities, Discourse Communities
Olivier, Dianne F.; Hipp, Kristine Kiefer – Journal of School Leadership, 2006
This article explores a reciprocal relationship between leadership capacity and collective efficacy in a pre-K-8 school in the Southern United States that continually advances as a professional learning community. Survey data from this mixed methodology study showed significant positive correlations among subgroup scales measuring leadership…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Leadership, Leadership Training
Huffman, Jane B.; Pankake, Anita; Munoz, Ava – Journal of School Leadership, 2006
This article offers information about a district's school improvement efforts to reculture as a professional learning community, which we believe exemplifies the school and district levels of Fullan's (2004b, 2005) tri-level model. We use Fullan's eight elements of sustainability to organize the data gathered in interviews with school and district…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Accountability, School Districts, Instructional Leadership