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Sarah Baker-Cano – English in Texas, 2024
Professional learning should be designed in a way that is responsive to the needs of teachers and intentionally planned with adult learning principles in mind. This article outlines one practitioner's professional journey to redefine how professional learning is designed with best practices in adult learning in mind. Strategies utilized during…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Empowerment, Best Practices, Adult Learning
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Anne Zito; Karen H. Larwin – Journal of Organizational and Educational Leadership, 2024
Staff meetings are a regular occurrence in schools, yet both teachers and principals typically report dissatisfaction with these meetings. The current investigation seeks to understand the viewpoints of public-school teachers on silence during staff meetings. This was the first known investigation on the topic using Q methodology. Data analysis…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Staff Meetings, Teacher Attitudes, Public Schools
Stubblefield, John Barnes – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Demands for increased school accountability created by No Child Left Behind and Every Student Succeeds legislation has resulted in the implementation of professional development programs in which educators are observers rather than collaborative participants. The problem at a secondary independent charter school in Central Ohio was the lack of a…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Participative Decision Making, School Culture, Cooperation
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Moran, Kelly; Larwin, Karen H. – Journal of Organizational and Educational Leadership, 2017
The purpose of this study is to identify the characteristics and traits of individuals and buildings in which teacher empowerment is strongest, so that those schools and individuals can be further studied and emulated. An additional purpose of the study is to investigate the relationships between principals and school environment characteristics,…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Facilitators (Individuals), Administrator Role, Leadership Role
Kaplan, Claire; Chan, Roy; Farbman, David A.; Novoryta, Ami – National Center on Time & Learning, 2015
This study looks deeply inside 17 schools that stand at the vanguard of the current revolution in teaching. This new National Center on Time & Learning (NCTL) report reveals the substantive ways in which these schools are providing their teachers with more time to reflect on, develop, and hone their craft, by very explicitly leveraging an…
Descriptors: Extended School Day, Extended School Year, Faculty Development, Teacher Collaboration
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Hostetler, Andrew – Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education, 2012
Dewey (1916/2009) viewed democracy as a "path or journey." This suggests that there is no mutually agreed upon end. Similarly, in teaching and teacher education, if viewed as a learning problem, the end is the process according to Ritter (2010) "[t]eaching others how to teach for democratic citizenship represents a process that…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Democracy, Social Studies, Reflective Teaching
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Peck, Jacqueline K. – Ohio Reading Teacher, 1998
Urges teachers who have replaced teacher-planned and implemented instruction with less effective instruction because of the Ohio Proficiency Tests to recast their teacher role from passive technician to that of proactive decision-maker. (NH)
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Elementary Secondary Education, State Standards, Teacher Empowerment
Berry, Barnett; Fuller, Ed – Center for Teaching Quality, 2007
In Spring 2007, educators in 63 participating Ohio school districts across the state spoke out on working conditions in their schools by participating in a web-based survey that addressed key teaching and learning conditions related to time, empowerment, school leadership, professional development, and facilities and resources. This is the final…
Descriptors: Supply and Demand, Educational Change, Instructional Leadership, Teaching Conditions
Klecker, Beverly; Loadman, William E. – 1996
Teacher empowerment was one of eight criteria required by the Ohio Department of Education for funding as part of its Venture Capital Schools in Ohio program. This report, part of a larger study, identifies and summarizes dimensional definitions of teacher empowerment in school restructuring literature in order to enlarge the vision of Venture…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development
Klecker, Beverly M.; Loadman, William E. – 1998
Teacher empowerment is a cornerstone of educational reform efforts. This study measured dimensions of teacher empowerment with a census of the 3,677 teachers in 169 Ohio public elementary schools initiating self-designed state-funded restructuring. Mailed surveys examined six dimensions of teacher empowerment (decision-making, professional growth,…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Change, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
Klecker, Beverly; Loadman, William E. – 1996
The assumption that as teacher empowerment increases in restructuring schools teacher job satisfaction will increase was explored in a study using a large sample of classroom teachers working in schools initiating self-designed restructuring efforts. Study participants were 10,544 classroom teachers working in 307 Venture Capital Schools funded to…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Correlation, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Klecker, Beverly; Loadman, William E. – 1996
As an increasing number of schools undertake restructuring efforts, an instrument to measure teacher empowerment would be a useful took for researchers and evaluators. Such an instrument was used in a census survey of 10,544 teachers in 307 Venture Capital Schools in Ohio to obtain baseline measures of classroom teachers' participation in school…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education