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A Conceptual Framework to Guide the Development of Teacher Reflection and Decision Making.
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Colton, Amy Bernstein; Sparks-Langer, Georgea M. – Journal of Teacher Education, 1993
Describes a conceptual framework that integrates teacher cognitive, critical, and personal characteristics; the framework serves to guide the development of reflective decision making, showing teacher educators how to form effective teachers. The model's collegial environment encourages efficacy, flexibility, consciousness, and social…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Faculty Development, Higher Education, Mentors
Fostering Elementary Teachers' Research on Their Science Teaching Practices.
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van Zee, Emily H. – Journal of Teacher Education, 1998
Describes the development of a program fostering prospective and practicing elementary school teachers' research on their science-teaching practices, discussing the science-education community's recognition of the importance of teacher research, examining beliefs underlying development of the program, describing the program's setting, summarizing…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Faculty Development, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education
A Discipline-Based Professional Development Faculty: A Case for Multiple-Site Collaborative Reform in the Disciplines.
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Hudson-Ross, Sally – Journal of Teacher Education, 1998
Describes a partnership among English-education faculty members and secondary English teachers, arguing that a multisite, discipline-based professional-development faculty provides an alternative for secondary-level Professional Development School principles-in-action. The paper discusses reform, departmentalization of high school and college…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College School Cooperation, Educational Change, English
An Integrated Approach to Using National and State Standards in a School-University Curriculum Project.
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Desmond, Cheryl; Kerlavage, Marianne; Seda, E. Elliott – Journal of Teacher Education, 1998
Describes Millersville University's Keystone Project, 1 of 11 Pennsylvania partnerships of school districts and teacher education institutions to create interdisciplinary curriculum projects based on national and state standards. Middle school and university faculty cooperatively planned and implemented the project. Using state and national…
Descriptors: Art Education, College Faculty, College School Cooperation, Cooperative Planning
The Challenge of Effectively Preparing Teachers of Limited-English-Proficient Students.
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Rhine, Steve – Journal of Teacher Education, 1995
Discusses the effect of inservice and preservice education emphasizing the educational needs of limited-English- proficient students, examining a study of the effects of English language proficiency on teachers' assessment of students' understanding. Results indicated that despite inservice education, teachers did not accommodate students' needs…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students
Networks as Learning Communities: Shaping the Future of Teacher Development.
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Lieberman, Ann – Journal of Teacher Education, 2000
Educational reform networks are well-suited to utilizing new technology and institutional arrangements. They are flexible and innovative and can create collaborative environments and develop agendas that grow and change with their participants. Teacher educators participating in these learning networks help recreate the meaning of scholarship…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Change, Educational Technology