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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Evidence of Mentor Learning and Development: An Analysis of New Zealand Mentor/Mentee Professional Conversations
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Langdon, Frances J. – Professional Development in Education, 2014
While studies have shown that mentoring is essential to the development of new teachers, fewer investigations have examined what mentors learn about themselves and about mentoring through this role. In this study, the conversations between 13 mentors and their mentees were analysed, along with mentor self-evaluations and focus group data, over two…
Descriptors: Mentors, Foreign Countries, Discourse Analysis, Faculty Development
Professional Development for Conceptual Change: Extending the Paradigm to Teaching Reading Comprehension in US Schools
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Hollenbeck, Amy Feiker; Kalchman, Mindy – Professional Development in Education, 2013
In this paper we examine American inservice teachers' instructional methods in reading comprehension following professional development (PD), illustrating the prolonged and significant gap between research and practice in the field of reading comprehension. We explore this gap from a conceptual change perspective, positing that some level of…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction, Faculty Development