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Direct linkJanssen, S.; Kreijns, K.; Bastiaens, T.; Stijnen, S.; Vermeulen, M. – Professional Development in Education, 2012
Professional development of teachers has become an essential condition in today's knowledge-based society to sustain the quality of teaching. Therefore, the Dutch government promotes this professional development. As a result, Professional Development Plans (PDPs) are now increasingly used to stimulate and support the professional development of…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Workshops, Guidance
Bignold, Wendy; Barbera, Jackie – Professional Development in Education, 2012
Teaching assistants are often the constant adult in classrooms in England today and find themselves working closely with student-teachers. This paper explores the role of teaching assistants in the training and assessment of primary initial teacher education students and considers their continuing professional development (CPD) needs in relation…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Teacher Aides
Eva, Kevin W.; Armson, Heather; Holmboe, Eric; Lockyer, Jocelyn; Loney, Elaine; Mann, Karen; Sargeant, Joan – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2012
Self-appraisal has repeatedly been shown to be inadequate as a mechanism for performance improvement. This has placed greater emphasis on understanding the processes through which self-perception and external feedback interact to influence professional development. As feedback is inevitably interpreted through the lens of one's self-perceptions it…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Physicians, Focus Groups, Cognitive Processes
Hiebert, James; Morris, Anne K. – Journal of Teacher Education, 2012
For several historical and cultural reasons, the United States has long pursued a strategy of improving teaching by improving teachers. The rarely questioned logic underlying this choice says that by improving the right characteristics of teachers, they will teach more effectively. The authors expose the assumptions on which this logic is built,…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Logical Thinking, Professional Development, Teacher Improvement
Clarke, Anthony; Collins, John; Triggs, Valerie; Nielsen, Wendy; Augustine, Ann; Coulter, Dianne; Cunningham, Joni; Grigoriadis, Tina; Hardman, Stephanie; Hunter, Lee; Kinegal, Jane; Li, Bianca; Mah, Jeff; Mastin, Karen; Partridge, David; Pawer, Leonard; Rasoda,Sandy; Salbuvik, Kathleen; Ward, Mitch; White, Janet; Weil, Frederick – Teaching Education, 2012
We report on the origins, development and refinement of an online inventory to help cooperating teachers focus on selected dimensions of their practice. The Mentoring Profile Inventory (MPI) helps quantify important features of both the motivating and challenging aspects of mentoring student teachers and provides results to respondents in a…
Descriptors: Cooperating Teachers, Practicum Supervision, Mentors, Student Teachers
Wayman, Jeffrey C.; Jimerson, Jo Beth; Cho, Vincent – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2012
In the United States, effective data use is proving to be a vexing problem. In response, scholars have recently begun viewing this as a systemic problem, believing there are actions a school district may take to make data use more efficient and tenable throughout the organization. In this article, we add to the knowledge of how school…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Data Collection, Data Analysis, Educational Research
Marcu, Silvia – Journal of Youth Studies, 2012
This article examines the experiences in terms of belonging and sense of place among young Romanian immigrants who came to Spain in search of opportunities for professional development. The research detects and analyses the process of mobility, the search for job opportunities and the necessity of working below one's level of training or…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Foreign Countries, Employment Opportunities, Immigrants
Makitalo, Asa – Journal of Education and Work, 2012
This article addresses professional learning as intrinsic to social practices. It takes its point of departure in a sociocultural notion of mediation and communication in human activity and addresses the constitutive nature of language and artefacts as material-semiotic tools in the social coordination of perspectives and action, meaning-making…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Expertise, Social Status, Knowledge Level
Houchins, David E.; Shippen, Margaret E.; Murphy, Kristin M. – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2012
This article addresses professional development (PD) issues for those who provide services to students in the school-to-prison pipeline (STPP). Emphasis is on implementing evidence-based practices. The authors use a modified version of Desimone's PD framework for the structure of this article involving (a) collective participation and common…
Descriptors: Evidence, Professional Development, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons
Shupp, Matthew R.; Arminio, Jan L. – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2012
Entry-level student affairs staff are the profession's future and seasoned professionals must lay a strong supervisory foundation. Supervision has received little attention in the literature even though practitioners spend substantial time supervising. Although an important role, many seasoned professionals are ill prepared for this task. This…
Descriptors: Supervision, Ecology, Student Personnel Workers, Student Personnel Services
McKim, Anne; Wright, Noeline – Educational Action Research, 2012
This paper reports and reflects on a collaborative and multi-layered action enquiry project in the New Zealand polytechnic sector. In the context of widespread national professional development centred on adult literacy and numeracy teaching and learning in vocational educational institutions, an action enquiry methodology was piloted with…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Numeracy, Change Agents, Foreign Countries
Ross, Laurie – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2012
Through an analysis of a practice-oriented course on youth worker professional development consisting of 10 community youth workers and 11 traditional college students, this paper suggests the need to construct the classroom as a "borderland." Course structure, class composition, pedagogical strategies, and deliberate learning objectives disrupted…
Descriptors: Youth Agencies, Service Learning, Apprenticeships, Story Telling
Feiman-Nemser, Sharon – Educational Leadership, 2012
Reviewing the research, Feiman-Nemser identifies distinct shifts in thinking about teacher induction over the last 50 years. Early advocates viewed induction as a temporary bridge designed to provide support to beginning teachers and ease their entry into teaching. Next came an induction model that combines support with ongoing mentoring and…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Collaboration, Professional Development
Vidergor, Hava E.; Eilam, Billie – Roeper Review, 2012
The aim of this study was to assess Israeli Jewish and Arab teachers' perceptions of the desired characteristics of teachers of the gifted. The research sample comprised 217 teachers (134 Jews and 83 Arabs) representing three groups: (a) teachers entering a professional development program for teachers of gifted students; (b) teachers of gifted…
Descriptors: Jews, Academically Gifted, Teacher Certification, Cultural Background
Download full textTrent, John – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2012
This study examines the continuing professional development of one group of secondary school English language teachers who participated in a school-university partnership in Hong Kong. Grounded in a framework of teacher identity and using in-depth interviews conducted over the entire 12 month period of the partnership, the study explores the…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Conflict, Foreign Countries, Professional Development
