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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Professional Development Schools"”.
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Professional Development Schools: Yesterday's Theories, Today's Reform?
… results had been realized by six Colorado high schools participating in professional development school partnerships. A survey was distributed to certified teaching staffs of six demographically similar high schools that had been participating in professional development school partnerships for …
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Planning procedures and leadership role of the principal in professional development schools
… programmatic changes that occurred in Indiana schools that have incorporated the Ball State University (BSU) Professional Development School (PDS) model; (b) how the implementation of these changes had impacted the school principal's roles and responsibilities; (c) whether the principal serving …
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A Study to Explore the Strategy of Field-Based Teacher Preparation: Professional Development Schools.
… teachers with varying levels of participation in professional development schools. The population in my study was the 2002 through the spring of 2006 kindergarten through 6th-grade student teachers from a small, private postsecondary institution. A requirement of the teacher education program was …
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Planning for a learning society : Minnestrista Cultural Center and Oakhurst Gardens in Ball State University's professional development schools network
… such example is found in Ball State University's Professional Development Schools Network, which has enlarged the focus of educational renewal by including a museum as one of its official network sites. This two-part museum, Minnetrista Cultural Center and Oakhurst Gardens, brings community …
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The Professional Development School : a Descriptive Case Study of its History and Development
<p><em>Problem.</em> The development o f school/university partnerships is not a simple process. It requires collaboration between two groups o f professionals who come from different cultures, have developed different forms o f expertise, and operate under different organizational conditions and …
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Conceptual and Procedural Instruction: Mathematical Teaching Approaches And Strategies In An Urban Middle School
… in mathematics in under resourced urban middle schools. The significance of this study is to develop math instructional skills in urban schools that can help bridge the achievement gap between urban underperforming schools and suburban achieving schools. Urban mathematics educators are …
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Reconstructing teacher professional learning within a school-university partnership through communities of practice : a phenomenological case study.
Professional Development Schools (PDS) and other school-university partnerships strive for reciprocal learning among spaces, people, and practices. Yet, this mission is often unactualized. The lack of reciprocal learning limits all educators' learning opportunities and widens the chasm between …
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High School's Principals' and Teachers' Perceptions of Peach State University's Professional Development School Model
<p>Professional Development Schools (PDSs) were proposed as a way to revolutionize and reform schools by changing the way teachers are trained to teach in order to enhance and reform schools by changing the way teachers are trained to teach in order to enhance schools to expose K-12 teachers, …
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A descriptive study of reform in teacher education at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs)
… 97 HBCUs. Demographic data The majority of the schools studied had undergraduate enrollments between 2,000 and 4,000. The highest degree offered by the majority of the schools studied was the undergraduate degree. The largest number of African American graduates per year was between 50 to 100 …
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Plans and planes: United States Army aviation in American colour-coded war plans, 1920-1939
… experience or courses taken at the various professional development schools. This understanding influenced policies and the structure of the United States Army, both being reflected within the plans of the interwar years. Moreover, the planning process, which throughout the period included …
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Case Study of Participants in a Site-Based Secondary Mathematics Methods Course and Internship: Three Teachers in Transition
… by NCTM. At times, this can take the form of professional development schools (PDSs) in which mathematics teacher educators and practicing teachers collaborate to prepare pre-service teachers. Through a case study, three participants in a PDS setting were studied as they took part in the …
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An Evaluation of a Professional Development School: The School Teacher Education Partnership Project
The professional development school (PDS) has had a recent resurgence in teacher education. Professional development schools were designed to reform teacher education programs and revitalize K-12 education. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a professional development school: The School …
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The Governor's Commission on Training America's Teachers: Response From Pennsylvania's Elementary School Principals
… also categorized as principals of elementary professional development schools and as principals of traditional elementary schools. Additionally, principals were asked to rate newly hired teachers on their readiness to demonstrate a mastery of eleven important pedagogical skills related to …
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A case study of a university-school partnership: impacting the success of children, teacher candidates, and inservice teachers
… of teacher candidates, and on current teacher professional development. The three tiers of this study are reported here in an effort to support existing research on professional development school partnerships while adding to a growing area of research on school reform. The case study was …
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Supporting Children to Recognise and Manage their Anxiety
… health. The classroom teacher is the best placed professional to work sensitively and consistently with children to effect educational outcomes. My study focused on how I, a Resource Teacher in a large mixed senior school, supported four sixth class children to use vital life skills to recognise …
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University of South Carolina'S Elementary Professional Development School Partnerships: Conditions Influencing Professional Development of Teachers
… indicates the importance of investigating the professional development of teachers. Helping teachers learn can help improve student achievement. The purpose of this study is to explore the professional development of teachers within a University partnership. More specifically the research …
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Perceptions of Mentor Teachers in a Professional Development School
<p>The professional development school (PDS) is an innovative teacher education</p><p>program, designed to foster simultaneous teacher and student development in K-12 schools and teacher training institutions. Built as a partnership between professional education institutions and K-12 schools, the …