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Harfitt, Gary James – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2012
Class size research suggests that teachers do not vary their teaching strategies when moving from large to smaller classes. This study draws on interviews and classroom observations of three experienced English language teachers working with large and reduced-size classes in Hong Kong secondary schools. Findings from the study point to subtle…
Descriptors: Class Size, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes
Mtika, Peter; Gates, Peter – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2011
This interview-based qualitative study is concerned with the recruitment of secondary teachers in Malawi. This study shows a range of perspectives for pursuing a teacher training course: failure to follow a desired career, springboard to other careers, to upgrade, and teaching out of vocation. It shows that trainee teachers held a range of images…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Trainees, Preservice Teacher Education
Meister, Denise G.; Ahrens, Patricia – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2011
This paper describes and interprets the career experiences of four veteran secondary teachers and their ability to resist plateauing. Three areas of veteran teacher research informed this study: career stages, plateauing, and resiliency. In-depth phenomenological interviews were conducted to investigate and depict the meanings these teachers…
Descriptors: Careers, Veterans, Secondary Education, Resilience (Psychology)
Rots, Isabel; Aelterman, Antonia; Devos, Geert; Vlerick, Peter – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
This two-wave survey study aimed at testing a hypothetical model of teacher education graduates' decisions about whether or not to take a teaching position upon graduation. The model focuses on the relationship between teacher education and graduates' choice on job entrance. Using path analysis and logistic regression, this model was tested in a…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teachers, Teaching (Occupation), Graduates
Youngs, Peter; Bird, Tom – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
The purpose of this documentary account is twofold. First, we describe two strategic instructional assignments embedded in university courses at a large research institution in the United States that were designed to help teaching candidates move toward mastery. Second, we explicate candidates' performances on the assessments as well as evidence…
Descriptors: Scoring, Assignments, Secondary Education, Preservice Teacher Education
Skerrett, Allison – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
Using the case of a secondary English department in Ontario, Canada, this article examines the constraints that academic departments face in transforming themselves from communities of practice into learning communities. This distinction between a community of practice and a learning community has taken on heightened importance as increasing…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Educational Change, English Departments, Foreign Countries
van Tartwijk, Jan; den Brok, Perry; Veldman, Ietje; Wubbels, Theo – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2009
Creating a positive working atmosphere in the classroom is the first concern of many student and beginning teachers in secondary education. Teaching in multicultural classrooms provides additional challenges for these teachers. This study identified shared practical knowledge about classroom management strategies of teachers who were successful in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Classroom Techniques, Classroom Environment, Secondary Education
Meirink, Jacobiene A.; Meijer, Paulien C.; Verloop, Nico; Bergen, Theo C. M. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2009
In this study, relations between learning activities of teachers and changes in their beliefs were examined. Thirty-four teachers in Dutch secondary education were asked to complete a questionnaire regarding their beliefs about teaching and learning on two occasions. They were also asked to report on learning activities that they undertook.…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Educational Change, Methods, Experiments
O'Connor, Kate Eliza – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2008
This paper discusses the findings of a qualitative interpretive study on secondary school teachers' professional identities and emotional experiences. Teachers' work is emotionally engaging and personally demanding, yet the caring nature of the teaching role is largely neglected in educational policy and teacher standards. This paper examines the…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Emotional Experience, Educational Policy, Secondary Education
Konings, Karen D.; Brand-Gruwel, Saskia; van Merrienboer, Jeroen J. G. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2007
Educational designers often develop a "powerful learning environment" that is subsequently implemented by teachers. Due to a lack of cooperation with teachers they may receive limited feedback on the quality of their design and the way it is implemented. This study focuses on teachers' perceptions of a Dutch innovative learning…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Environment, Cooperation, Feedback
Bullough, Robert V., Jr.; Kridel, Craig – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2003
This essay explores the origins and practice of the "workshop" as a form of in-service teacher education developed during the Eight-Year Study (1933-1941) sponsored by the Progressive Education Association. The Eight-Year Study workshops offer important lessons for current educational reform as the authors call for greater attention to the history…
Descriptors: Workshops, Educational Change, Progressive Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Nash, R. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2003
The importance of care for learners is recognised as fundamental of teaching: it is argued that teaching equally requires a care for "knowledge." Within a realist theory, to care for knowledge, moreover, must involve taking into account its relationship to the real world. The implications of this ontological consideration are worked out…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Science, Working Class, Educational Philosophy