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Viola Marie Schmid-Doyle – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this Action Research study was to examine and improve professional dialogue and collaboration on student literacy among teachers at a Pre-Kindergarten-Grade 4 elementary school serving 460 students in a small rural college town. The project focused on teachers' collaborative processes in their efforts to address the literacy needs…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Literacy Education, Elementary School Students, Rural Areas
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Van Gelderen, Ben – Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2017
"Growing Our Own" is an innovative and unique program for Initial Teacher Education (ITE) in the remote Northern Territory. As a partnership between Catholic Education, Northern Territory (CENT) and Charles Darwin University (CDU), lecturers travel to remote Indigenous communities to deliver unit content to local 'Assistant Teachers'…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Indigenous Populations, Preservice Teacher Education, Geographic Isolation
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Ngwaru, J. Marriote – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2013
The majority of people in Southern and Eastern Africa (SEA) including Zimbabwe, Kenya and Uganda live in rural areas on less than two dollars a day. The countries however share education values based on the conviction that education will transform society and as a result have embraced the Millennium Development (MDG) and Education for All (EFA)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Poverty, Role of Education
Yates, Sigrid S. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Most states require that schools engage in school improvement programs to meet accountability mandates which necessitates that teachers develop the skills necessary to accomplish school improvement efforts. The problem is that classroom practitioners lack the skills necessary to achieve effective school improvement. Limited research exists with…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Accountability, Faculty Development, Teacher Attitudes
Ohle, Kathryn A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study is to share teachers' perceptions of their and other stakeholders' roles and influence during the implementation of an instructional policy, the Targeted Reading Intervention (TRI), and its success. The TRI is a professional development (PD) program that uses a diagnostic reading model, a suggested set of reading…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Educational Policy, Program Implementation, Reading Programs
Lee, Hyun-Myoung – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to make interns-central members who directed a change the nature of the conception of professional development in an online peer-led dialogue. My focuses were what pedagogical aspects in an online peer-led dialogue contributed to intern's professional development (i.e., professional knowledge development and…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Computer Mediated Communication, Faculty Development, Teaching Methods
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Balfour, Robert – Perspectives in Education, 2005
Bernstein's work on educational transmission provides a discourse for understanding classroom practice which can integrate elements as diverse as content and interaction, to enable a critical evaluation of how pedagogic transformation occurs. This article describes an intervention in an English classroom in rural KwaZulu-Natal in which the shift…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Empowerment, Teacher Empowerment, English (Second Language)
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Fang, Zhihui; Fu, Danling; Lamme, Linda Leonard – Literacy, 2004
The article describes a longitudinal professional development project in rural Florida (USA) schools that supports the efforts of inservice teachers to make pedagogical transitions from total reliance on prepackaged commercial programmes to making informed decisions about curriculum and pedagogy autonomously. It demonstrates that in order to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teacher Empowerment, Professional Development, Rural Areas