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Bishop, Russell; Berryman, Mere; Wearmouth, Janice; Peter, Mira; Clapham, Sandra – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2012
This paper considers the relationship between a professional development programme designed to bring about changes in teacher practice through iterative cycles of implementation and evaluation and associated changes in Indigenous students' educational performance. The paper does this by documenting the outcomes of the implementation of the Te…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inservice Teacher Education, Case Studies, Program Effectiveness
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Baskerville, Delia; Goldblatt, Helen – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2009
This paper explores the nature of a critical friendship between two education advisers within a nation-wide New Zealand Ministry of Education (MOE, 2006-2008) research and development project. Over 18 months the relationship developed through evolving phases. This paper identifies and discusses the factors, circumstances, conditions and analytical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Friendship, Reflective Teaching, Inservice Teacher Education
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Bishop, Russell; Berryman, Mere – Teacher Development, 2010
Te Kotahitanga is a research and professional development project that aims to support teachers to raise the achievement of New Zealand's indigenous Maori students in public/mainstream classrooms. An Effective Teaching Profile, developed from the voices of Maori students, their families, principals and some of their teachers, provides direction…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Pacific Islanders, Foreign Countries, Professional Development
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Piggot-Irvine, Eileen – Journal of In-service Education, 2006
A dialectical, or mutually informing and influencing, relationship exists between research, programmes for development and improved teaching and learning. Among a raft of other attributes, current perceptions of effective professional development (summarised in the paper) point to deep, collaborative, active and ongoing features as important. Such…
Descriptors: Action Research, Professional Development, Evaluation Criteria, Standard Setting