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Gaofeng, Ruan; Yeyu, Lin – Online Submission, 2007
Peer coaching, or peer assisting, was established in 1970s by Joyce and Showers. Initially used in teachers' professional development, it refers to a process that two or more teacher peers evaluate current practice mutually; expand skills, extract and build new skills; share ideas, and review & solve problems of classroom teaching in a way of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Internet, Peer Teaching
Day, Christopher, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
The International Handbook of Teacher and School Development brings together a collection of research and evidence-based authoritative writings which focus on international teacher and school development. Drawing on research from 18 countries across 7 continents, the 40 chapters are grouped into 10 themes which represent key aspects of teacher and…
Descriptors: Teachers, Expectation, Teaching (Occupation), Accountability
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Wong, Jocelyn L. N. – Educational Studies, 2006
Many researchers have identified a process they call "deskilling", which they use to describe the daily experience of teachers who have been gradually losing control of their own labour within "low-trust" workplaces. Conversely, other scholars have found that under similar conditions, some teachers have their own ways of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Administrative Organization, Teacher Attitudes
Wenqing, Zhao – ASPBAE Courier, 1987
Consists of proceedings of a 1986 rural education symposium held in Changchun, China. Participants represented international and Chinese organizations. Topics included (1) vocational/technical education, (2) planning, (3) strengthening teaching, (4) materials and methods, and (5) trends in adult education. Proposes follow-up measures. (CH)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Conference Proceedings, Educational Development, Educational Planning
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Ding, Gang, Ed. – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education & Development, 2001
Introduces papers from a symposium on changes in preservice and inservice teacher education in China. The papers focus on institutional and policy development, reform in China's secondary teacher education, the development and reform of Chinese teacher education, the integration of preservice and inservice teacher education, and the training of…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries
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Gu, Lingyuan; Wang, Jie – Teaching Education, 2006
In-service teacher education in China has traditionally been mainly lecture-centred, theory-orientated, and experience-led. For various contemporary reasons such an approach may not be effective since it is unlikely to provide a context in which teachers are able to put educational theories into practice. "Action Education", a…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Teacher Improvement, Theory Practice Relationship, Experiential Learning
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Ho, Man-koon – Education Journal, 2000
Provides an overview of the theoretical arguments and problems encountered in the implementation of information technology in Chinese language teaching. States there is a belief that teaching and learning can be enhanced with the introduction of information technology, explaining that it may increase students' motivation to learn. (CMK)
Descriptors: Chinese, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Information Technology
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Wang, Jian; Paine, Lynn W. – Elementary School Journal, 2001
Analyzed the collaboration of a first-grade novice teacher and her mentor teacher while the novice learned to teach mathematics in China. Found that the mentor contributed to novice teacher's progress by implementing a clear, consistent focus; modeling, analyzing, and reflecting on mathematics teachers; and defining and refining the zones of the…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers
Askey, Richard – American Educator, 1999
Reports that teaching elementary mathematics requires a much deeper mathematical knowledge than most experts have believed and that teachers must receive the training, textbooks, time, and support needed to develop this knowledge. Notes that U.S. mathematics teachers' knowledge is not nearly as robust as that of Chinese mathematics teachers, and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries
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Li, Guangzhou – Physics Education, 1997
Describes the evolution of the seven major physics syllabi used in all secondary schools in China and analyzes the shifts of these syllabi in terms of objectives, content, instructional hours and teaching methods. Suggests changes for China's future secondary-physics education, including the need for modern experimental equipment such as computers…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries
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Black, Susan – Journal of Staff Development, 2003
Time is essential for teacher learning--time for teachers to sort out what they've learned, and time to practice new strategies. Schools must take a long-term view of professional learning and afford teachers the one thing essential to changing practice. They also must remember that after finding time, the second requirement is using it well.
Descriptors: Time Factors (Learning), Time Management, Faculty Development, Teacher Improvement
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Wang, Yidan; Jacobson, Stephen L. – International Journal of Educational Reform, 1993
In rural China, the reform movement's goal was to universalize basic education by making education more compatible with local needs. This meant decentralizing school authority to increase local governments' involvement in school administration and revising curriculum content to increase schools' relevancy to specific communities' future economic…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Curriculum Development, Decentralization, Economic Development
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Martin, David S.; Craft, Anna; Sheng, Zhang Ning – American Annals of the Deaf, 2001
Teacher cohorts in England and China received special training in techniques for teaching higher-level critical and creative cognitive strategies to deaf learners. Evaluation after 6 months of classroom implementation found students improved in reasoning and critical (but not creative) thinking and teachers developed cognitive terminology and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Education, Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education
Wei, Wu, Comp.; And Others – 1987
This publication consists of seven papers on educational reform in China chosen mainly from major Chinese journals of education science. "The Decision on Reforming the Educational System Made by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China," published in May 1985, is a particularly important document concerning the Chinese…
Descriptors: Communism, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Innovation
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Tucker, Jan L.; Gilliom, M. Eugene – Social Education, 1984
Among the goals of Chinese educators today are unifying education standards, extending the length of schooling to 12 years, and improving teacher quality. Moral education is being introduced into formal schooling on a large scale. Social studies courses are heavily laced with party dogma. Social studies courses are listed. (RM)
Descriptors: Communism, Comparative Education, Educational Objectives, Educational Practices
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