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Northfield, Jeff – 1993
This paper describes a teacher education effort that developed conditions for teachers to be more effective learners about teaching and encouraged teachers' development of a personal understanding of educational issues. A group of teachers in one school established the Project To Enhance Effective Learning (PEEL) as an approach to encourage more…
Descriptors: Action Research, Cognitive Restructuring, Constructivism (Learning), Educational Change
MacCallum, Judith A. – 1991
This study was conducted to investigate the moral development of teachers, their reasoning about student discipline incidents, and whether a teacher's own moral development might affect desired student outcomes. An inservice course on student discipline entitled "Managing Student Behavior: A Whole School Approach to Discipline" (MSB) was…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Discipline, Foreign Countries, High Schools
Tisher, Richard P. – 1987
This paper reviews research that has been done in Australia on teacher education in the past decade. It presents some perspectives on the potential of that research to inform practice and to improve the process of teacher education. The research projects studied included preservice education, the induction of beginning teachers, and the…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Bartle, Graham – 1969
This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a survey of music in Australian schools. The survey included all types of schools, and includes facilities and equipment for musical education, and the use made of them. The courses of study, organization of musical activities, finance, supervision, teacher training, and…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Curriculum Design, Elementary Education, Inservice Teacher Education

Butler, Jim; Bartlett, Leo – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1989
Issues that emerged in the evaluation of the Queensland (Australia) Review of School-Based Assessment are discussed. The effects of implementation on secondary school teachers are addressed. The legal requirements, under Section 37 of the Queensland Education Act, of the curriculum innovation have been implemented and met by teachers. (TJH)
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Criterion Referenced Tests, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Evaluation

Nunan, David – ELT Journal, 1989
Presents a rationale for adopting a client-centered approach for foreign language teacher development programs. An inservice English-as-a-second-language teacher education workshop in Adelaide (Australia) helped participants to select and grade learning tasks. Participants then incorporated the "good" learning tasks into their own…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Faculty Development, Foreign Countries, Inservice Teacher Education

Matthews, Robin J. – Journal of Staff Development, 1993
Data obtained from the Change Facilitators Stages of Concern Questionnaire were used in the Philippines to select content in a one-month staff development program for department heads. The training program was strongly influenced by participants' concerns. The article describes the change facilitator stages of concern. (SM)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Department Heads, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Ingvarson, Lawrence – 1992
This paper describes the Science Education Professional Development Project in Australia, charged with the development of a national strategy for enhancing professional development of science teachers. Interviews were conducted with senior policy officers, science teachers' associations and unions, and 80 science teachers in 12 secondary schools.…
Descriptors: Career Development, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries, Inservice Teacher Education
Mitchell, Margot – 1991
The Southern Child Care Support Program was established in 1986 to help children with disabilities gain access to child care services. The program consists of a team of four Integration Support Workers who are able to provide support in 27 child care centers in the region of Adelaide, Australia. The program's model of child care focuses on three…
Descriptors: Caregiver Training, Day Care, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education
Munro, John – 1994
This investigation monitored the perceived effectiveness of a professional development program, called Facilitating Effective Learning and Teaching, in improving teacher practice. The program assumes that improvement is likely when the participants understand and value the learning process and themselves as learners and teachers. Program…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Fitzpatrick, G. S.; Angus, M. J. – 1975
Interviews were conducted with 27 teachers working in open space schools in Australia. The selection of interviewees was arranged to find those with both critical feelings of the deprivation of their traditional roles and the independence of the self-contained classroom and with enthusiasm for what others view as a major component of educational…
Descriptors: Discipline, Educational Facilities Design, Educational Innovation, Foreign Countries
Moskowitz, Jay, Ed.; Stephens, Maria, Ed. – 1997
This is the final report of Phase 2 of a study on teacher training and professional development in the nation members of Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). Phase 2 examined policy and practices of teacher induction in 11 participating APEC members. This report provides responses to a survey and three case studies. The survey asked Education…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers, Comparative Education, Educational Environment
Language Australia, Melbourne (Victoria). – 1998
This volume is a professional development resource for early childhood educators, especially designed for those working with children from language backgrounds other than English. This resource is designed to fill a gap in English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) education that has neglected the professional development needs of teachers of preschool…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Early Childhood Education, Emergent Literacy, English (Second Language)

Kahle, Jane Butler; Rennie, Leonie J. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 1993
The outcomes of two studies reported here indicate that the teacher inservice workshops, combined with activity-based science lessons, affected students' attitudes and perceptions about electricity. Australian and U.S. studies produced different patterns and are explored and explained in the paper. (Contains 24 references.) (Author/PR)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Electricity, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
Hoban, Garry F.; Erickson, Gaalen – Journal of In-service Education, 2004
This article analyses the nature of learning in three long-term professional development approaches from different disciplines--teacher research as used in educational contexts, action learning as used in business contexts, and problem-based learning as used in medical contexts. The lens used for analysis focuses on three dimensions or influences…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Experiential Learning, Faculty Development, Professional Development