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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Professional development programme"”.
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Peer Coaching in the Kingdom of Bahrain: Exploring the Implementation of a Professional Development Programme for Primary Teachers
… has demonstrated that teachers’ continuous professional development (PD) is one of the fundamental strategies that improves educational quality. Although the Bahraini Ministry of Education has encouraged teachers to adopt peer observation as a tool for PD, a number of obstacles have emerged …
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Professional dialogues to foster dialogic pedagogy in mathematics: Design and test of a school-run teacher professional development programme
… of teacher-facilitated, school-embedded teacher professional development [TPD] programme to promote dialogue in primary mathematics in Chilean primary schools. Educational dialogue is conceived as a kind of talk that is both challenging and inclusive, giving students space to express and explore …
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Teaching science outside the classroom: the role of teachers’ beliefs and teacher efficacy during a two-year professional development programme
… in the context of a two-year outdoor science professional development programme underpinned by a social constructivist pedagogical framework, the study investigates professional development strategies influential on teachers’ beliefs and teacher efficacy and eventual pedagogical …
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How can a continuing professional development programme cultivate a community of sustainability informed early childhood education and care (ECEC) teacher/educators?
… progress toward achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (Elfert, 2019). To accelerate change, the research explored how ECEC teacher/educators attending a sustainability-focused CPD programme could transfer their learning into their settings, influencing colleagues and anchoring …
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Te Kotahitanga Phase 3 School Reform: The impact of a professional development programme within a large, multi-cultural, secondary school in New Zealand.
… join Phase 3 of the Te Kotahitanga Research and Development Project from 2003 to 2010. This initiative aimed to work with teachers and school leaders to improve the engagement and success of Māori students. This thesis presents and reflects on qualitative evidence from interviews with the …
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Effective management of the Continuous Professional Development Program in selected schools in Oshana Education Region, Namibia
Continuous professional development denotes the empowerment of teachers to execute their duties diligently, which has a ripple effect on learner performance. Highly equipped teachers enhance and guarantee the smooth academic progression of learners. The impact of continuous professional development …
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Giftedness, perceptions and practices of teachers in Lithuania
… educational change, this research examined how a professional development programme in gifted education was effective in changing the perceptions and practices of Lithuanian teachers to utilise more comprehensive criteria for the identification of gifted children. The research addressed two main …
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Evaluation of the development needs of palliative care programme managers in the context of providing quality palliative care to increasing numbers of patients in Kenya, Malawi and South Africa
This study intended to identify the professional development needs of palliative care programme managers in hospices in Kenya, Malawi and South Africa. The findings reveal that palliative care programme managers have professional development needs related to their management function that include …
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Professional Development for a New Curriculum for a Developing Country: The Example of Technology Education in the Solomon Islands
… of a specially designed technology education professional development programme for traditional technical education secondary teachers to assist with the implementation of technology education in the Solomon Islands. Technology education is a new development for the teachers in Solomon Islands …
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Supporting early career teacher mentors in primary and secondary education: developing a context specific coaching training programme
… as a bridge from initial teacher training to a professional career in teaching. In 2021, the statutory Early Career Framework (ECF) superseded the NQT induction programme which represents a two-year government-funded professional development programme for Early Career Teachers (ECTs). In this …
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An investigation into the professional development needs of Upper Primary and Secondary teachers in mainstream, private schools to meet the diverse learning needs in Indian classrooms
… reported in this thesis investigates the professional development needs of mainstream teachers, teaching upper primary and secondary classes to successfully cater to a class of diverse learners. The research was conducted in mainstream private, English medium schools, that followed one of …
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The effects of humour on schemas during counselling: A pioneering study
… on limiting schemas a Humour-Based Therapeutic Programme (HBTP) was developed and its outcomes studied in order to determine the value and feasibility of a randomised control trial. The HBTP consisted of a method for identifying limiting schemas, a humour intervention, and a mindfulness tool. A …
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Fostering and Capturing Children’s Inner Motivation to Learn in the Early Primary Classroom in England
… autonomy in Year 1 classrooms through a professional development programme. This programme was developed by a team of researchers at the PEDAL centre using a Community of Practice model and involved nine teachers in trying out strategies to support children’s autonomy. Through stories of …
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Pedagogical content knowledge in teaching writing: The Case of Certified and Non-certified Junior Secondary School English Teachers in Banyumas Regency
… teachers, seven of them were those who have been professionally certified under the Indonesian laws regarding teacher quality, and eight of them were not. The findings of the study suggest that, regardless of their capable demonstrations of specific teaching areas in the observed writing lessons, …
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'Is this inclusive?'; teachers' perspectives on inclusion for children labelled with autism
… participants on a module on a university based professional development programme. Data were gathered from discussions between the teachers and from weekly reflective logs which were written by the teachers as part of their participation on the module. The teachers engaged in a process of …
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The development and evaluation of assessment tools and a model of reading development for supporting pupils within the Scottish policy context of closing the attainment gap in reading
… to the Scottish educational psychologists’ professional development programme, illustrating how particular instructional practices and approaches support the aims and objectives of the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence, by analysing how they exemplify models of learning compatible with the …
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Becoming effective technology teachers: enhancing assessment practices in primary classrooms
… The second year (1999) traces the impact of a professional development programme aimed at enhancing teachers’ technology pedagogical content knowledge in relationship to formative assessment. The significant impact of a planning framework containing the categories of technological practice, …
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The Western Seaboard Science Project: An Innovative Model of Professional Development to Enhance the Teaching and Learning of Primary Science
… to teach science effectively. In many countries professional development of teachers has been seen as a key strategy to improving teacher model of professional development has been shown to have little effect on teaching or learning back in the classroom. In response to this, a model of …
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Dialogic education, historical thinking and epistemic beliefs: a design-based research study of teaching in Taiwanese classrooms
… aim of the research was to design a teacher professional development programme to change teachers’ epistemic beliefs and their teaching practice towards dialogic history education for promoting historical thinking. Adopting the notion of design-based research, a teaching professional …
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A critical realist perspective on lesson study
… a cyclical and contextualised approach to professional development with the potential to spur teacher improvements which can in turn lead to improvements in student learning in a manner which is relevant and reactive to the demands of society. This study aims to contribute to both …
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