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Griffin, Lauren Elyse – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Increasing teacher efficacy poses challenges to educational leaders, highlighting the need for a study of the awareness and development of strengths related to teacher efficacy. The purpose of the current study was to examine the effect of the awareness and development of strengths on teachers' perceived self-efficacy, as well as to determine if…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Self Efficacy, Teacher Characteristics, Teaching Experience
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Zimmerman, Whitney Alicia; Knight, Stephanie L.; Favre, David E.; Ikhlef, Atman – Teacher Development, 2017
Qatar is undergoing major educational reform that is shifting its educational policy toward an instructional orientation grounded in constructivism and student-centered instruction. Differences in cultural conceptions of knowledge acquisition and the purpose of education are examined to highlight challenges to Qatar's reform implementation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Teacher Behavior, Self Efficacy
Bottoms, Gene; Egelson, Paula; Sass, Heather; Uhn, John – National Research Center for Career and Technical Education, 2013
This report presents the results of the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education's (NRCCTE's) five-year collaboration with the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) to develop an induction model for new career and technical education (CTE) teachers pursuing an alternative route to certification that increases their…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Quality, Vocational Education Teachers, Beginning Teachers
Bottoms, Gene; Egelson, Paula; Sass, Heather; Uhn, John – National Research Center for Career and Technical Education, 2013
This report presents the executive summary of the report of the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education's (NRCCTE's) five-year collaboration with the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) to develop an induction model for new career and technical education (CTE) teachers pursuing an alternative route to certification that…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Quality, Vocational Education Teachers, Beginning Teachers
Bottoms, Gene; Egelson, Paula; Sass, Heather; Uhn, John – National Research Center for Career and Technical Education, 2013
This report presents the appendices to the report of the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education's (NRCCTE's) five-year collaboration with the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) to develop an induction model for new career and technical education (CTE) teachers pursuing an alternative route to certification that increases…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Quality, Vocational Education Teachers, Beginning Teachers
Weaver, Patricia – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study examined beginning teachers' perceptions of self-efficacy and professional development while engaged in communities of practice. Wenger's research on communities of practice serves as the conceptual framework for this mixed method phenomenological study. Six beginning and tenured teachers were surveyed using the Ohio State Teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Self Efficacy, Pretests Posttests, Social Change
Holt, Dennis – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This policy study contributed to an understanding of the types of professional growth activities that improve teacher self-confidence to teach challenging subjects and helped determine the future allocation of resources relative to teaching secondary social studies in Hillsborough County Public Schools (HCPS), the eighth largest school district in…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Teacher Effectiveness, Self Efficacy, Statistical Analysis