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Unearthing the Complexities of Clinical Pedagogy in Supervision: Identifying the Pedagogical Skills of Supervisors
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Burns, Rebecca West; Badiali, Bernard – Action in Teacher Education, 2016
Instructional supervision is a highly complex endeavor as supervisors work to enhance teacher, teacher candidate, and school effectiveness. The process of learning to supervise well can be daunting and difficult. Recent research on teaching has focused on enhancing teachers' ability to notice or observe aspects of teaching and student learning.…
Descriptors: Teacher Supervision, Supervisors, Teaching Skills, Skill Development
Quality of Preservice Physics Teachers' Reflections in Their Teaching Portfolios and Their Perceived Reflections: Do They Intersect?
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Ogan-Bekiroglu, Feral – Action in Teacher Education, 2014
Although proponents support portfolios' value to enhance the reflective thinking of novice teachers and imply that such thinking improves teachers' practice, few studies have confirmed these assertions by directly measuring in-depth reflection or describing conditions that develop it. In this study, reflective thinking in preservice teachers'…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Portfolios (Background Materials), Teacher Attitudes, Reflection
Newly Qualified Teachers' Reflections on the Quality of Initial Teacher Education in the Republic of Ireland
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Kozina, Ekaterina – Action in Teacher Education, 2013
This article discusses the findings of a large scale mixed-methods study (2006-2010) conducted on a variety of early professional experiences of beginning primary teachers in the Republic of Ireland.
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Beginning Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Foreign Countries
The Teacher as Observer.
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Allison, Pamela C.; Pissanos, Becky W. – Action in Teacher Education, 1994
The subject of this study was a successful elementary physical education teacher, and its purpose was to investigate the pedagogical uses of the teacher's skill in observation. The inquiry was organized around three themes: the constitutive nature of observing, images for observational comparison, and the subjective experience of observation. (IAH)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Higher Education