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Direct linkGeraldine Mooney Simmie; Niamh O'Meara; Annette Forster; Veronica Ryan; Tara Ryan – Professional Development in Education, 2024
Shulman (1989) argued how 'outrageously complex' teaching is and how reform imperatives driving standards should not lead to standardisation and the subsequent loss of soul. We assert that framing a model of teachers' Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is similarly 'outrageously complex', a multifaceted construct that has professional,…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Teacher Improvement
Tim M. Stevens; Indira N. Z. Day; Perry J. den Brok; Frans J. Prins; Hanneke J. H. E. Assen; Marlies ter Beek; Gunter Bombaerts; Remco Coppoolse; Petra H. M. Cremers; Rik Engbers; Madeleine Hulsen; Rachelle J. A. Kamp; Jur J. Koksma; Kariene Mittendorff; Jan Riezebos; Roeland M. van der Rijst; Margje W. J. van de Wiel; Jan D. Vermunt – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
Higher education (HE) is engaged in a variety of educational innovations, as well as professional development initiatives (PDIs) to support teachers in attaining the required expertise. To improve teacher professional learning and development (PLD) and innovation processes, it is important to understand whether, how and why different PLD practices…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Educational Innovation, Higher Education, Expertise
White, Mark; Maher, Bridget; Rowan, Brian – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2023
Many educational interventions seek to change teachers' instructional practice. Standards-based observation systems are a common and useful tool to understand these interventions' impact, but the process of measuring instructional change with observation systems is highly complex. This paper introduces a framework for examining and understanding…
Descriptors: Bias, Observation, Outcome Measures, Intervention
Bell, Sanée – Educational Leadership, 2022
If leaders expect the feedback they give to translate to improved results, they need to practice delivering it in such a way that others are willing to receive it and act on it, writes school principal Sanée Bell. Here, Bell provides three ingredients for feedback that resonates.
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Work Environment, Educational Change, Leadership
Download full textTrevor Gerhardt; R. Kelly – Work Based Learning e-Journal International, 2024
This paper is focused on the concepts of reflection, pracademics and Cognitive Apprentices used within work-based learning contexts. A hermeneutic phenomenological dialogic exchange was conducted between the authors to gain an in-depth interpretive analysis of the concepts of reflection, pracademics and Cognitive Apprentices. It is evident that…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Development, Reflection, Reflective Teaching
Ashwin, Paul – Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2022
There is increasing international focus on system-wide schemes of teaching excellence in higher education. In this article, I explore national policy instruments intended to promote and measure teaching excellence. There appears to be very limited knowledge about what underpins the effective design of policy instruments for teaching excellence.…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Public Policy, Teacher Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
Joan Richardson – Learning Forward, 2023
The MyTeaching Partner-Secondary (MTP-S) coaching program for middle and high school teachers builds on research studies about effective coaching that have shown positive effects on teacher and student outcomes. For the past five years, Learning Forward has engaged in a project led by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) to better understand…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Secondary School Teachers, Video Technology, Models
Hazi, Helen M. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2022
While countries differ in their approach to and context of teacher evaluation, many have one thing in common--they hope it serves its formative and summative purposes. In this article, the author asks policymakers, educators and researchers to reconsider how these dual purposes are accomplished. Current approaches and research both in and outside…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Improvement, Teacher Certification, Faculty Development
Borko, Hilda; Zaccarelli, Florencia Gomez; Reigh, Emily; Osborne, Jonathan – Elementary School Journal, 2021
This article reports on changes in science discourse practices of four teachers who participated in an extended professional development (PD) program. Teachers were selected for their different patterns of improvement in the quality of their classroom discourse during their participation in the program. Analyses of their practices to support…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Faculty Development, Teacher Improvement
Virginia S. Lovison – Education Next, 2024
Since its founding 34 years ago, Teach For America has prepared nearly 70,000 recent college graduates and career-changers to teach in high-poverty schools across the United States. Unlike traditional teacher-preparation programs, it places "corps members" in short-staffed public schools after an intensive summer seminar, before they are…
Descriptors: Teacher Recruitment, Alternative Teacher Certification, Beginning Teachers, Disadvantaged
Checchi, Daniele; Mattei, Paola – Comparative Education Review, 2021
In 2015, a new performance-related pay scheme was introduced for schoolteachers in Italy as part of education accountability policies aimed at improving their performance. Beginning in that year, all Italian state school principals were offered the opportunity to distribute wage bonuses to deserving teachers. During the first year of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Salaries, Merit Pay, Accountability
Goei, Sui Lin; van Joolingen, Wouter R.; Goettsch, Floortje; Khaled, Anne; Coenen, Tom; In 't Veld, Sjors G. J. G.; de Vries, Siebrich; Schipper, Tijmen M. – International Journal for Lesson and Learning Studies, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore how lesson study (LS) can be transitioned to an online mode, with the purpose to derive recommendations for performing online LS while being loyal to the defining elements of a face-to-face LS. Design/methodology/approach: A theoretical analysis into the core components and procedures of LS resulted…
Descriptors: Teacher Improvement, Teacher Collaboration, Faculty Development, Communities of Practice
Murphy, Jeremy T. – History of Education Quarterly, 2021
The "Quincy Method" is widely considered a successful nineteenth-century school reform. Pioneered by Francis Parker in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1875, it fostered broad pedagogic change in an ordinary school system, transforming Quincy into a renowned hub of child-centered instruction. This article revisits the reform and explores its…
Descriptors: Teacher Improvement, Faculty Mobility, Educational Change, Educational History
Rose, Angela – Australian Educational Researcher, 2019
Civil unrest and forced displacement have seen historical numbers of people seeking refuge in countries, such as Australia, with many being children of school age. As schools continue to respond to students from refugee backgrounds, the role of teacher agency in such responses is an important, yet understudied area of research. In taking an…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Refugees, Empathy, Foreign Countries
Kyriakides, Leonidas; Creemers, Bert P. M.; Panayiotou, Anastasia; Charalambous, Evi – Routledge Research in Education, 2020
Quality and Equity in Education draws attention to the importance of developing and testing theories of educational effectiveness and using these theories for improvement purposes. It makes a major contribution to knowledge and theory building in research on promoting quality and equity in education. The book presents an improved version of the…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Equal Education, Educational Theories, Instructional Effectiveness
