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Craig, Cheryl – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2010
The article shows the experience of professional development over the course of a decade of one teacher's career nested against the backdrop of one reforming middle-school context in the USA. Through the use of four fine-grained narrative exemplars, the campus professional development trajectory is examined from the vantage point of Daryl Wilson,…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Faculty Development, Professional Development, Reflective Teaching
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Macintyre Latta, Margaret; Buck, Gayle; Leslie-Pelecky, Diandra; Carpenter, Lora – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2007
Teaching and learning continues to be driven by a version of professionalism that construes practice to be a form of applied science. This paper challenges that paradigm. In particular, subjecting and assimilating practical activity to a technical mode of rationality is challenged as not being the most appropriate way to approach teaching,…
Descriptors: Classrooms, Teaching Methods, Technology, Models
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McDuffie, Amy M. Roth; Mather, Martha – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2006
This teacher development study closely examined a teacher's practice for the purpose of understanding how she selected and implemented instructional materials, and correspondingly how these processes changed as she developed her problem-based practice throughout a school year. Data sources included over 20 hours of planning and analysis meetings…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Media Selection