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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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Identifying Professional Development Environment for Mentor Teachers at a Learning Centre
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Cheng, May May-hung; Yeung, Yau-Yuen – Teacher Development, 2010
This paper argues with evidence that conditions for teacher professional development can be enhanced for mentor teachers through a Learning Centre (LC) project which has been introduced in Hong Kong as a collaborative project between the government, a primary school, a secondary school, and the Hong Kong Institute of Education. The LC teachers…
Descriptors: Mentors, Interviews, Workshops, Foreign Countries
The Dilemma of Field Experience Assessment: Enhancing Professional Development or Fulfilling a Gate-Keeping Function?
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Cheng, May May-hung; Tang, Sylvia Yee-fan – Teacher Development, 2008
The field experience component in a teacher education programme serves both a gate-keeping function and a formative purpose that supports student teacher development. The authors were members of a research team which took care of the re-design of the assessment instrument for the field experience component of a teacher education programme, as well…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teachers, Professional Development, Teacher Education Programs