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Strahan, David – Teacher Development, 2016
Opportunities for self-guided professional development provided a context for exploring ways that mid-career teachers designed learning projects and articulated their perceptions of professional growth. In their applications for small grants for materials and released time, participants identified their own personal goals for improving…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Faculty Development, Teacher Improvement, Teacher Collaboration
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Carbone, Paula M.; Reynolds, Rema E. – Teacher Development, 2013
A year long study group brought teachers and researchers working in urban contexts in US public schools together to examine literacy practices incorporating students' community literacies into schooled tasks. The goal was to provide teacher development in making connections across their students' community literacies and the academic literacy they…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Schools, Public School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Tse, Shek Kam; Ip, Olivia King Ming; Tan, Wei Xiong; Ko, Hwa-Wei – Teacher Development, 2012
An overview is presented of a three-year project aimed at helping Chinese language teachers in Taiwan refine ways that Chinese, an ideographic language that differs markedly from alphabetic English, is taught in primary schools. Guided by university staff in Taiwan, Hong Kong University and a Taiwanese non-government social enterprise, 20…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Chinese