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The Charisma of the Critical Other: Enhancing the Role of the Teacher.
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Woods, Peter – Teaching and Teacher Education, 1993
Discusses how critical others can enhance teachers' roles. Critical events all have a critical agent plus critical others who provide significant input but have no formal role within the institution. They enhance teachers' roles by providing a charismatic quality and contributing toward the authenticity of teachers' work in many ways. (SM)
Descriptors: Collegiality, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Student Teachers in the Role of "Others."
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Brooks, Val – Teaching and Teacher Education, 1998
Discusses two projects that examined school-based initial teacher education in England and Wales in light of new Department of Education regulations about the role of "others" in teacher development, suggesting that student teachers constitute a distinctive category of others, and higher education can help teachers and students recognize…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Preservice Teacher Education
Reformative In-Service Education for Teachers (RINSET) as a Collaborative Action and Learning Enterprise: Experiences from a Finnish Context.
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Lauriala, Anneli – Teaching and Teacher Education, 1998
Finland's Reformative In-Service Education for Teachers was a one-year program that joined experienced and novice teachers in promoting change. Research on the resulting development of teachers' cognitions and on factors crucial to that development highlighted changes in beginners' craft knowledge concerning students, learning, knowledge, and…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Beginning Teachers, Educational Change, Elementary Education
Professional Development Schools: Catalysts for Teacher and School Change.
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Bullough, Robert V., Jr.; And Others – Teaching and Teacher Education, 1997
Using data from surveys of and interviews with teachers and principals, this study explored the impact of involvement in Professional Development Schools (PDS) on teacher professional growth and school change at seven elementary and secondary PDS sites. Results highlighted the importance of a range of context variables to program success. (SM)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, College Role, College School Cooperation, Context Effect
"I Feel I Have Received a New Vision": An Analysis of Teachers' Professional Development as They Work with Students on Interpersonal Issues.
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Adalbjarnardottir, Sigrun; Selman, Robert L. – Teaching and Teacher Education, 1997
Describes a developmental framework constructed to portray different ways teachers express their vision of fostering elementary students' interpersonal competence and skills in classrooms. Presents a case study and details four developmental awareness dimensions that can help in studying how teachers view their roles when working with students on…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Developmental Stages, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Exploring the Complexities of the Relationship between K-12 and College Faculty in a Nontraditional Professional Development Program.
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LePage, Pamela; Boudreau, Sharon; Maier, Stacy; Robinson, John; Cox, Heather – Teaching and Teacher Education, 2001
Explored relationships between school and college faculty, in the context of graduate school and as colleagues collaborating to improve children's education. Data from dialogic inquiry, interviews, and surveys indicated that the collaborative, reciprocal process of struggling to understand inconsistencies created as they worked to transform…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College School Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development