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Newberry, Melissa; Sanchez, Lucy Ordaz; Clark, Sarah K. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2018
The teaching profession, at its core, is relational. Professional development of teachers is provided in many ways: one day seminars, professional learning communities, mentoring, etc. However, there has been little attention to the interaction between the teachers involved in the process and what influence this interaction has on their…
Descriptors: Interprofessional Relationship, Teaching (Occupation), Faculty Development, Communities of Practice
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Strom, Katie; Mills, Tammy; Abrams, Linda; Dacey, Charity – Studying Teacher Education, 2018
In this study, we set out to explore processes of individual and group becomings of a self-study collective over time and distance, and with/through technology. Born out of a self-study project in one of our early doctoral courses, our self-study community has evolved over several years to one that is hybrid in nature. As we have continued our…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Teaching Experience
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Borders, L. DiAnne; Wester, Kelly L.; Gonzalez, Laura M. – Journal of Faculty Development, 2018
Contextual or organizational factors in faculty members' work settings can support or limit their efforts to implement what they learned in faculty development programs. These factors may be particularly salient for programs designed to enhance faculty research productivity. In this article, the authors introduce a measure of faculty research…
Descriptors: Teacher Researchers, Program Validation, Test Construction, Faculty Development
Knight, Jim – Educational Leadership, 2018
When opportunities to learn present themselves, often teachers will turn away from them. Knight calls this the Zero-Learning Zone, a rut that educators can get in and miss out on professional growth. He offers warning signs for when you're in the Zero-Learning Zone and tips on how to avoid it to go on to lead a fulfilling, knowledge-filled life.
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Improvement, Educational Opportunities, Educational Methods
Benton, Stephen L.; Young, Suzanne – IDEA Center, Inc., 2018
Effective instructor evaluation is complex and requires the use of multiple measures--formal and informal, traditional and authentic--as part of a balanced evaluation system. The student voice, a critical element of that balanced system, is appropriately complemented by instructor self-assessment and the reasoned judgments of other relevant…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Feedback (Response), Teacher Improvement
Sleiman, Angelica – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Federal and state mandates have placed an added pressure on teachers to demonstrate "effective" instructional practices. These mandates also affect the role of a principal, as an evaluator of "effective" instructional strategies, and as an instructional leader who continuously needs to build teacher capacity to satisfy these…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation, Principals
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Crow, Tracy – Journal of Staff Development, 2015
Learning Forward is fortunate to work with stakeholders in a range of roles and from all kinds of contexts, including schools and systems, higher education, teacher associations, foundations, government, and corporations. While the organization and the people it works with cover a lot of ground in and beyond education, they welcome the luxury of…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Improvement, Educational Opportunities, Teacher Effectiveness
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Huang, Rongjin; Kimmins, Dovie; Winters, Jeremy; Rushton, Gregory – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2020
To address obstacles of adopting lesson study at scale, this study investigated how a technology-assisted lesson study (TALS) approach could remove the obstacle of scheduling while retaining positive effects of traditional lesson study (LS). The TALS approach involves embedding lesson study within teachers' normal schedules, videotaping the…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Technology Uses in Education, Scheduling
Jacobs, Sandi – Phi Delta Kappan, 2016
Just a few years ago, tenure appeared low on the reform list for state policy makers and district administrators, viewed as too hot an issue politically to challenge. But it was front and center in the 2014 landmark "Vergara v. California" lawsuit, which challenged teacher tenure and related policies. Yet whether to grant tenure or not…
Descriptors: Tenure, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Improvement, Teacher Evaluation
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González, Gloriana; Deal, Jason T.; Skultety, Lisa – Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
Providing opportunities for learning through professional development requires the examination of facilitation of sessions with teachers. This study investigates facilitation of professional development to promote teacher learning when using animations and videos in a study group with five teachers. We ask: "What practices (and moves within…
Descriptors: Teacher Improvement, Peer Groups, Educational Objectives, Video Equipment
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Lewis, Jennifer M. – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2016
This article presents research on how teacher developers in the United States learn to conduct lesson study. Although the practice of lesson study is expanding rapidly in the US, high-quality implementation requires skilled facilitation. In contexts such as the United States where this form of professional development is relatively novel, few…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Teacher Collaboration, Mathematics Teachers
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van den Bosch, Roxette M.; Espin, Christine A.; Pat-El, Ron J.; Saab, Nadira – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2019
The authors examined three instructional approaches for improving teachers' curriculum-based measurement (CBM) graph comprehension, each differing in the extent to which reading the data, interpreting the data, and linking the data to instruction were emphasized. Participants were 164 elementary school teachers who were randomly assigned to one of…
Descriptors: Teacher Improvement, Comprehension, Curriculum Based Assessment, Progress Monitoring
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Tlali, Tebello – Africa Education Review, 2019
This article is based on a study which aimed to explore the use of reflective practices to develop professionalism among pre-service teachers at the National University of Lesotho. The study sought to contribute to the local and international debate on best practice in encouraging and scaffolding constructivism through reflective practice among…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professionalism, Reflective Teaching, Preservice Teachers
Woody, Nisha – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The vocational math teachers at a vocational secondary school lack the adequate skills needed to be effective in math classrooms. The vocational teachers who teach math at the local vocational school have been identified as noncertified teachers based on their certification with the state department of education. The purpose of this project study…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Vocational Education, Secondary Education, Vocational Schools
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Appleton, Eric; Farina, Solange; Holzer, Tyler; Kotelawala, Usha; Trushkowsky, Mark – Journal of Research and Practice for Adult Literacy, Secondary, and Basic Education, 2017
This article describes the New York City Community of Adult Math Instructors (CAMI), a math teachers' circle founded in November 2014. The authors share details about their own participation in CAMI to show the professional growth that research-based, peer-led professional development can offer for adult educators.
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Problem Solving, Adult Education, Adult Educators
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