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Direct linkHansel, Lisa; Huie, David; Martinez, Monica – Journal of Staff Development, 2002
Comprehensive school reform (CSR) requires quality professional development to succeed. This paper looks at how schools can make time for professional development while keeping the CSR initiative on track, explaining how to overcome challenges to implementing CSR and noting the need for district support. Steps that districts can take to build…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development, Teacher Improvement
Peer reviewedBambino, Deborah – Educational Leadership, 2002
Describes Critical Friends Group process for helping teachers improve teaching and student learning through collaborative feedback and problem-solving activities. (PKP)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Feedback, Inservice Teacher Education, Teacher Improvement
Peer reviewedStenberg, Shari; Lee, Amy – College English, 2002
Addresses an underlying assumption that teaching is a skill that can be acquired by the proper training, rather than intellectual work deserving of study. Suggests an alternative basis for teacher development by promoting and demonstrating a process of pedagogical inquiry. (SG)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Higher Education, Inquiry, Teacher Education
Peer reviewedKreber, Carolin – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2001
Discusses the basis of this volume, a survey of a panel of experts on the important components and unresolved issues in the scholarship of teaching. Also provides an overview of the volume's subsequent chapters. Includes the survey and an analysis of responses. (EV)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Surveys, Teacher Improvement, Teacher Researchers
Ludwig, Meredith; Taymans, Juliana – Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 2005
Research has provided important lessons about developing and delivering high quality professional development to educators. Features identified as indicative of high quality professional learning experiences are the organization of the activity and its duration, the extent to which there is collective participation of teachers within an education…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Improvement, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
Killion, Joellen – Journal of Staff Development, 2004
This article deals with a staff developer's concerns about Bill Stewart's staff retreat, and how these concerns create opportunity and obligation. The author presents views from a superintendent and two staff developers on the staff retreat. Aside from these, the author talks about a superintendent named Darlene Preston, and her course of action.…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Faculty Development, Teacher Improvement, Course Objectives
Day, Christopher, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
The International Handbook of Teacher and School Development brings together a collection of research and evidence-based authoritative writings which focus on international teacher and school development. Drawing on research from 18 countries across 7 continents, the 40 chapters are grouped into 10 themes which represent key aspects of teacher and…
Descriptors: Teachers, Expectation, Teaching (Occupation), Accountability
Download full textStedron, Jennifer M.; Shah, Tajel; Bautsch, Brenda; Martin, Patricia; Deye, Sunny; Bailey, Lamar; Handel, Stephen J.; Vasavada, Natasha; Shen, Yilan; Exstrom, Michelle; Shelton, Sara; Santiago, Helen; Bell, Julie Davis; Quin, Bradley J.; Baum, Sandy; Bell, Julie Davis; Sturtevant, Anne; Bautsch, Brenda; Williams, Ronald; Kerouac, Pamela; Badolato, Vincent – College Board Advocacy & Policy Center, 2010
There are formidable challenges at every level of the system that confront students who aspire to enroll and succeed in college. In 2007, the College Board formed the Commission on Access, Admissions and Success in Higher Education to study the educational pipeline as a single continuum and identify solutions to increase the number of students who…
Descriptors: Public Policy, State Action, State Legislation, State Surveys
Mizell, Hayes – Journal of Staff Development, 2007
The National Staff Development Council (NSDC) has won recognition for the field of professional development. Researchers and education change agents acknowledge the importance of professional learning among strategies essential for reforming schools and raising teacher and student performance. The federal government, states, and school districts…
Descriptors: Teachers, Educational Change, Change Agents, Campuses
Stracco, Mike – English Journal, 2007
In a one-week voluntary summer course, students aged twelve to seventeen eagerly take ownership of their composing processes, learning to connect terms such as focus and point of view to the visual and verbal acts of photography and writing. High school teacher Mike Stracco grapples with how to channel the vitality of his summer course into…
Descriptors: Summer Schools, Photography, Writing Instruction, Student Participation
Gabriele, Anthony J.; Joram, Elana – Action in Teacher Education, 2007
The purpose of this study was to examine the sources of efficacy of experienced teachers who are making the transition to reform-based mathematics teaching, by examining the criteria that they use to evaluate their teaching effectiveness. The quantity and quality of 10 elementary teachers' verbal reflections on the success of their lessons were…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Educational Change, Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Effectiveness
Glenn, Joanne M. Lozar – Environmental Education and Training Partnership (EETAP), 2006
Pursuing environmental education certification is difficult, so why do it? What does it mean to be certified? Who benefits? How? These are just a few of the compelling questions addressed in "EE Certification: Making Best Practice Standard Practice," a new article exploring advancements and challenges in state and national EE…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Higher Education, Certification, Forestry
Glazer, Evan M.; Hannafin, Michael J. – Teaching & Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2006
Professional learning is a social enterprise where peers rely on the expertise and support of one another to adopt innovative practices. Reciprocal interactions in a community of practice, where teachers take responsibility for each other's learning and development, may provide an effective means of supporting situated professional learning. We…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teacher Improvement, Teaching Models, Peer Teaching
Knight, Jim – School Administrator, 2006
The number of school districts using instructional coaches is growing at a staggering rate. Coaching is becoming popular, in part, because many educational leaders recognize the old form of professional development, built around traditional in-service sessions for teachers, simply does not affect student achievement. By offering support, feedback,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Faculty Development, School Districts, Tutors
Bashiruddin, Ayesha – Studying Teacher Education, 2006
This paper describes a teacher educator's self-study of work with her M.Ed. students at a private international university in Pakistan. This systematic inquiry highlights changes and improvements in teaching drawn from experiences of practice based on autobiographies. Analysis shows that improvement in teaching came from the author's learning…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Research, Teacher Improvement
