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Mifsud, Denise, Ed.; Day, Stephen P., Ed. – Teacher Education, Learning Innovation and Accountability, 2023
This edited book provides a critical re-reading of the concept of teacher education, in addition to a re-thinking of the sole focus on Initial Teacher Education (ITE), with implications for education policy, theory, and practice. This book presents new investigations that explore the concept of teacher education from ITE to retirement and how this…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Career Development, Educational Practices, Policy Formation
Amanda Shuford Mayeaux; Dianne F. Olivier – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
In August 1992, I began teaching elementary school in Pickering, Louisiana, to a class full of energetic fifth graders. I floundered my first few weeks, but quickly developed some effective skills. Over the next few years, I continued to hone my skills and began to notice there were differences in teachers in the various schools in which I worked.…
Descriptors: Teaching Skills, Skill Development, Teacher Motivation, Teacher Improvement
Filomena Rodrigues; Maria João Mogarro – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2016
Considering the Bologna process and the consequent creation of the European Higher Education Area, which aims to create comparable and compatible academic degrees, and the fact that teachers must develop skills to thrive in our ever-changing society, we decided to study two initial teacher education programs of two different European higher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Teaching Skills
McLaughlin, Milbrey W.; Talbert, Joan E. – 2001
This book is about teachers' professional communities in U.S. high schools at the end of the 20th century and the significant differences in their response to the challenges of teaching. It describes how the work of teaching differed across three distinct types of communities found and high schools and subject departments studied in the early…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Educational Change, Educational Environment, School Culture
Freedman, Sarah Warshauer; And Others – 1987
Noting that while writing teachers acknowledge that responding to their students' writing is central to their teaching, they still express frustration about how to make their response effective. This book describes a two-part study conducted to discover how the nation's most successful writing teachers respond to their students' work. The first…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Interpersonal Relationship, Teacher Effectiveness
Burgess, Robert G.; And Others – 1993
This volume is about inservice education and training (INSET) and the professional development of teachers from four local educational authorities (LEAs) in England; the key role of teachers in providing and evaluating INSET; representations of varied styles of INSET; problem solving; and a range of alternative models and styles of INSET for…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development