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Higgins, Monica; Young, Lissa; Weiner, Jennie; Wlodarczyk, Steven – Phi Delta Kappan, 2010
School districts are moving toward a new form of management in which superintendents need to form and nurture leadership teams. A study of 25 such teams in Connecticut suggests that a team's effectiveness is maximized when the team members are coached by other team members, not the superintendent, and when they are coached on task-related…
Descriptors: School Districts, Administrative Organization, Superintendents, Leadership Styles
Frisby, Sandra – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe, measure, compare, and contrast the perceptions of elementary teachers and principals regarding the degree to which the schools in which they are employed have implemented learning organizations conforming to Senge's (1990) 5 disciplines: mental models, personal mastery, shared vision, team…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Institutional Characteristics, Principals, Elementary School Teachers
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Gregory, Sheila; Poland, Fiona; Spalding, Nicola J.; Sargen, Kevin; McCulloch, Jane; Vicary, Penny – Educational Action Research, 2011
This paper reflects on the challenges and benefits of multidimensional collaboration in an action research study to evaluate and improve preoperative education for patients awaiting colorectal surgery. Three cycles of planning, acting, observing and reflecting were designed to evaluate practice and implement change in this interactive setting,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Action Research, Patient Education, Surgery
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Schneider, Luise; Romberg, Claudia – Performance Improvement, 2011
Cultural awareness training that emphasizes communication delivers only a partial solution to the challenges that intercultural work teams face. Improving collaboration requires a strong foundation of performance management before a work team can determine how they will cooperate to perform to excellence. Against the backdrop of the authors'…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Quality of Life, Differences, Work Environment
Rawlings, Melody – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this participatory action research study was to answer the following research question: How does online instructional design impact students' virtual teamwork performance? Through the lens of social constructivism, a qualitative, in-depth multi-case study design was utilized to conduct document analyses, observations, and student…
Descriptors: Action Research, Instructional Design, Teamwork, Educational Technology
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Bader, Lena; Zotter, Victoria – Multicultural Education & Technology Journal, 2012
Purpose: Interdisciplinarity is necessary to explain or solve complex problems and questions of today's world. Therefore, it's important to analyze the situation within an educational institution to get to know what students think about interdisciplinary work. The purpose of this paper is to try to achieve an insight into how e-learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Student Attitudes, Educational Technology
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Berlin, Donna F.; White, Arthur L. – School Science and Mathematics, 2012
The purpose of this study is to provide an in-depth analysis of attitudes and perceptions related to the integration of mathematics, science, and technology education of preservice teachers preparing to teach STEM disciplines. Longitudinal data by individual cohort and across 7 years of the Integrated Mathematics, Science, and Technology (MSAT)…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
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Zulu, C. B. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2011
Research on women in leadership has received growing attention in recent years. But not enough studies have investigated the way women construct leadership and management of the academic department. This article reports on the findings of an inquiry into the experiences of women heads of academic departments (HoDs) at universities in South Africa…
Descriptors: Females, Integrity, Foreign Countries, Transformational Leadership
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Green, Diana J.; Blaszczynski, Carol – Journal of Applied Research for Business Instruction, 2012
Employers seek employees who possess soft skills. Employees who do not have excellent soft skills may not experience success in obtaining and sustaining employment. McEwen's (2010) framework for skill-building--introduce, explain, practice, and reinforce--was used to describe activities for enhancing soft skills. Soft skills building activities…
Descriptors: Employer Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship, Employers, Expectation
Palaganas, Janice Christine – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Interprofessional education (IPE) is gradually recognized as essential to patient safety and implemented as a standard for healthcare education through professional organization recommendations and accrediting bodies. Given the increasing adoption of experiential and team-based learning, healthcare simulation (HCS) has become a preferred vehicle…
Descriptors: Simulation, Health Services, Interdisciplinary Approach, Allied Health Occupations Education
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Herrenkohl, Leslie Rupert; Kawasaki, Keiko; DeWater, Lezlie Salvatore – New Educator, 2010
In this paper, we discuss our approach to teacher-researcher collaboration and how it is similar and different from other models of teacher collaboration. Our approach to collaboration employed design experimentation (Brown, 1992; Design Based Research Collective, 2003) as a central method since it yields important findings for teachers'…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Researchers, Cooperation, Teamwork
Hemphill, Libby Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2009
In our efforts to understand how collaborative work can be accomplished, we often turn to discussions of "coordination" for help. However, the concept of coordination is inadequate for explaining the many interdependent processes at work within successful collaborations. In this dissertation, I examined a collaborative construction project--the…
Descriptors: Construction (Process), Teamwork, Cooperation, Group Dynamics
Lohmiller, Darcy – Library Media Connection, 2009
School librarians teach through collaboration with the classroom teacher, who comes to the library with a content assignment, and the librarian infuses it with information-skills lessons. But this type of collaboration is often hindered by various obstacles, including the teacher's reluctance to devote the time needed. This is the dilemma. School…
Descriptors: Cooperation, School Libraries, Information Skills, Librarians
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Kapp, Edward – College Teaching, 2009
While collaborative student projects can be effective in improving student learning, the failure of students to work together effectively remains a widely reported problem in collaborative learning. This article describes a team-building intervention designed to improve the students' abilities to work together in teams successfully. The…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Projects, Intervention, Teamwork
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Simmons, Brian; Wagner, Susan – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2009
Although interprofessional education (IPE) and continuing interprofessional education (CIPE) are becoming established activities within the education of health professions, assessment of learners continues to be limited. Arguably, this in part is due to a lack of IPE and CIPE within in the clinical workplace. The accountability of…
Descriptors: Professional Continuing Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Educational Assessment, Teamwork
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