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Lee, Daphnee; Lee, Wing On – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2013
This paper seeks to explore the empirical fit of two PLC models, using Singapore as a case. Insights emerged from documentary analyses and interviews with state-affiliated agents from the Academy of Singapore Teachers. The proposed DuFour--Fullan model, despite policy aspirations, remains largely DuFour-predominant in practice. Aspirations for a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Interviews, Administrator Attitudes
Williams, Judy; Ritter, Jason; Bullock, Shawn M. – Studying Teacher Education, 2012
This article reports a literature review of self-studies by beginning teacher educators examining their experiences of the transition from classroom teaching to teacher educator. The authors conclude that becoming a teacher educator involves several complex and challenging tasks: examining beliefs and values grounded in personal biography,…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Beginning Teachers, Faculty Development, Interprofessional Relationship
Kise, Jane A. G. – Journal of Staff Development, 2012
Consider for a moment how launching a professional learning community is similar to starting a race. Athletes know the danger of false starts--moving before the starting signal. Until recently, a false start meant that all racers returned to the blocks to begin again, their adrenalin gone, their concentration broken. Because these effects could…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Faculty Development, Communities of Practice, Academic Achievement
Pella, Shannon – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2011
The bulk of current research on teacher professional development is focused on teacher learning in the context of teacher professional learning communities (PLCs). In teacher PLCs, groups of teachers meet regularly to increase their own learning and the learning of their students. Teacher PLCs offer a learning model in which, "new ideas and…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Faculty Development, Professional Development, Language Arts
Breaux, Annette – Educational Leadership, 2016
In her years of experience studying, working with, and writing about new teachers, induction programs, and mentoring, Annette Breaux has learned that successful mentoring boils down to 10 factors. In this article, Breaux highlights those features and provides actionable takeaways for school districts and educators. She recommends embedding…
Descriptors: Mentors, Program Effectiveness, Best Practices, Educational Practices
Brody, David L.; Hadar, Linor Lea – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
Studies of professional learning in collaborative settings emphasize the importance of facilitators. However, there is sparse literature analyzing this role and its functions for learning in communal contexts particularly among teacher-educators. This study examines characteristics of the facilitator-teacher educator interaction and its functions…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Communities of Practice, Faculty Development, Facilitators (Individuals)
Hamlin, Amanda – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study followed the course of a professional development intervention to support kindergarten teachers in using a critical literacy approach to teach their students about race, ethnicity, and equity. The purpose of the design-based intervention, which took place in a diverse but somewhat racially segregated school district, was to empower…
Descriptors: Racial Identification, Self Concept, Social Change, Critical Literacy
Musanti, Sandra I. – Action in Teacher Education, 2017
The study explores English as a second language (ESL) and bilingual teachers' narratives within a learning community as they collectively engage in reflecting on practices to more effectively support English learners. This longitudinal qualitative study integrates narrative inquiry approach and critical incident methodology. Participants were…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, English (Second Language), Reflection, Longitudinal Studies
Sableski, Mary-Kate; Arnold, Jackie Marshall – Journal of Catholic Higher Education, 2017
Catholic elementary and secondary schools across the country recently adopted standards reflective of the Common Core State Standards to align instruction with state and national guidelines requiring the revision of curriculum and the adjustment of instruction to meet the new standards from an ideological model. This article describes a…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Literacy Education, Catholics, Decision Making
Burgess, Cathie – Critical Studies in Education, 2019
This paper problematises the concept of cultural competence in teacher professional learning arguing instead for opportunities to develop critical reflexivity in the ongoing construction of a pedagogical cultural identity. In the Aboriginal context within Australia, this research study demonstrates how attaining cultural knowledge, understandings…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Faculty Development, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations
Moreno-Recio, Pilar – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this sequential mixed method study was to determine if there were differences between central office administrators', school administrators', and bilingual and English as a second language (ESL) teachers' overall and levels of action, self-regulation, and means efficacies, when controlling for years of experience with bilingual and…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Labanna, Zubaida Mehzabin – Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 2020
Purpose: This paper aimed to explore secondary science teachers' views on Resource Folio as an effective tool to improve their PCK through interpretation of own teaching practice. Method: The study was conducted in qualitative approach following multiple case study method. Three secondary science teachers were purposively selected as participants…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Amirova, Bakyt – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2020
The purpose of this study is to understand the central phenomenon of teacher professionalism, identify the perceptions of teacher professionalism and what factors contribute to or inhibit teacher professionalism. The main research question of this study is how do Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools teachers perceive teacher professionalism in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Identity, Teacher Attitudes, Professionalism
Cranston, Jerome – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2009
Using a naturalistic inquiry approach and thematic analysis, this paper outlines the findings of a research study that examined 12 Manitoba principals' conceptions of professional learning communities. The study found that these principals consider the development of professional learning communities to be a normative imperative within the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Principals, Communities of Practice
Shabeeb, Lina El Ashi; Akkary, Rima Karami – Professional Development in Education, 2014
This article examines the in-house professional development program in a private school in Lebanon and the approach it adopts to train teachers on reflective practice. It identifies the contextual factors in the school that teachers perceive as supporting their professional learning of reflective practice, and investigates the teachers'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Private Schools, Reflective Teaching