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Sales, Auxiliadora; Traver, Joan A.; Garcia, Rafaela – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2011
Teacher professional development is a key factor for transforming professional and school culture. This article describes a case study undertaken in a Spanish school during the 2007-2008 academic year. Our aim is to explain how action research methodology was applied to encourage professional and school culture towards an intercultural and…
Descriptors: School Culture, Action Research, Educational Change, Professional Development
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Hamman, Doug; Gosselin, Kevin; Romano, Jacqueline; Bunuan, Rommel – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
Questions about identity and future success often occupy the thinking of individuals during life transitions. Possible-selves theory describes how future-oriented thought provides identity-relevant information and motivation to pursue self-relevant goals. Expected and feared possible selves of beginning teachers (n = 221) were analyzed revealing…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Self Concept, Beginning Teachers, Goal Orientation
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Takahashi, Sola – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2011
Teachers' efficacy beliefs are critical to improving student learning, but we have yet to fully understand how these beliefs develop. The prevailing model of teachers' efficacy development emerges from cognitive theories, but sociocultural theories may add insights to modeling the impact of teachers' school contexts. This case study takes a…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Teaching Methods, Decision Making, Data
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Underwood, Paul R. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2012
While numerous studies in mainstream education have drawn on the Theory of Planned Behaviour to investigate curriculum impact, in English Language Teaching contexts such research is scant. This study applies the theory to anticipate the impact of the Japanese national curriculum for English, by exploring the beliefs of senior high school teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, National Curriculum, Grammar, Secondary School Teachers
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Dix, Stephanie – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2012
Changes in political, social and educational curriculum policies over the past four decades have created discursive shifts in writing theory and practice for New Zealand primary teachers. While these policies have historically privileged a particular view of writing over others, very little is known as to how teachers engage with experienced…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Figurative Language, Self Concept, Educational Policy
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Kuijpers, J. M.; Houtveen, A. A. M.; Wubbels, Th. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
This article examines the design of a professional development model that aims to improve student achievement. This model has been designed by combining and supplementing elements from school-improvement literature and existing professional development models. Existing models from two largely independent approaches to professional development of…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Faculty Development, Teaching Methods, Educational Improvement
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Dellinger, Amy B.; Bobbett, Jacquline J.; Olivier, Dianne F.; Ellett, Chad D. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2008
This paper distinguishes between teacher efficacy and teacher self-efficacy beliefs and describes a need for theory and research-based measures of teachers' self-efficacy beliefs that are grounded in the context of the classroom. To meet this need, a new measure of teacher self-efficacy beliefs, the Teachers' Efficacy Beliefs System-Self…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Self Efficacy, Factor Analysis, Beliefs
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Lefstein, Adam; Snell, Julia – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2011
This article explores the political dimensions of teacher learning, both in theoretical work on teacher professional vision, and in an empirical study of video-based teacher professional development. Theoretically, we revisit the origins of "professional vision" in linguistic anthropology and trace the concept's evolution in teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Anthropological Linguistics, Educational Research, Educational Theories
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van Dijk, Esther M. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2009
The study of Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) that is presented in this paper aims to obtain an impression of teachers' knowledge and beliefs concerning teaching evolutionary theory. The starting point of this project was the development of the Educational Reconstruction for Teacher Education model (ERTE). The PCK-study shows that teachers'…
Descriptors: Evolution, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Science Instruction, Teacher Attitudes
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Postholm, May Britt – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2008
The article is based on a research and development project conducted in a Norwegian lower secondary school. The purpose of the text is to show how a project involving a researcher and a teacher team encourages the teachers to reflect on teaching processes, and, furthermore, to show what the form and content of such reflection processes could be.…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers
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Shapira-Lishchinsky, Orly – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2011
The aim of this study is to explore ethical dilemmas in critical incidents and the emerged responses that these incidents elicit. Most teachers try to suppress these incidences because of the unpleasant feelings they evoke. Fifty teachers participated in the study. A three-stage coding process derived from grounded theory was utilized. A taxonomy…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Ethics, Teacher Attitudes, Classification
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Cartaut, Solange; Bertone, Stefano – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2009
The goal of this study was to evaluate the effects of the joint training activities of a cooperating teacher and a university supervisor during an advisory visit on (a) the professional development of a preservice teacher's activity and (b) the reorganization of mentoring activity following this visit. The results are considered from a theoretical…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Constructivism (Learning), Case Studies, Foreign Countries
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Koc, Yusuf; Peker, Deniz; Osmanoglu, Aslihan – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2009
The purpose of this study was to explore the potential value of online video case discussions among preservice and inservice teachers, and the video case teacher as a tool for the professional development of teachers. Participants included a total of 26 preservice and inservice mathematics teachers and a veteran teacher who appeared on the video…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Content Analysis, Mathematics Teachers, Case Method (Teaching Technique)
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Flint, Amy Seely; Zisook, Karla; Fisher, Teresa R. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2011
This study examines two experienced teachers' transformations and sense of agency as they implemented a writer's workshop curriculum with multi-lingual third grade students. Multiple lines of inquiry guide the study including "communities of practice" (Lave & Wenger, 1991), "teacher identities in figured worlds" (Holland, Lachicotte, Skinner, &…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Grounded Theory, Class Activities, Writing Workshops
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Krull, Edgar; Oras, Kaja; Sisask, Sirjie – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2007
This study aims at identifying indicators of schoolteachers' professional development by learning teachers' perceptual and thinking capabilities of classroom events as reflected in their comments. The analysis of comments produced by novice and expert teachers on videotaped lesson activities, based mainly on the grounded theory strategy, revealed…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Teaching Methods, Professional Development, Preservice Teacher Education
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