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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Teacher Empowerment"”.
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Teacher empowerment as a strategy for educational change
One of the greatest challenges facing teachers in the new democratic South Africa has to do with understanding and facilitating change in education. The question of how teachers can be empowered at the school level was, therefore, a problem necessitating this research. The aim of the study was to …
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The Relationship between Teacher Empowerment and Student Achievement
… study is to determine the relationship between teacher empowerment and student achievement. Participants in this study were administered the School Participant Empowerment Scale (SPES); this scale measures teacher empowerment on six dimensions: decision making; professional growth; status; …
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VETERAN TEACHERS’ EXPERIENCES IN CONNECTION TO TEACHER EMPOWERMENT WITHIN THE SCHOOL
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>VETERAN TEACHERS’ EXPERIENCES IN CONNECTION TO TEACHER EMPOWERMENT WITHIN THE SCHOOL</p> <p>By</p> <p>Jessica Louise Aho</p> <p>This narrative inquiry has been designed to explore the perspectives and experiences of veteran elementary teachers in connection to leadership and …
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Teacher Empowerment and Collaboration Enhances Student Engagement in Data-Driven Environments
… faces a crisis in our data-driven environments. Teachers feel limited by the adopted scripted curriculum designed to raise test scores, because it is not adequately engaging students. However, educational research in the US and in other countries indicates that teacher collaboration with …
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Standards-based educational accountability and at-risk schools: Implications for teacher empowerment for effective practice
The standards-based educational accountability and its corollary quality assurance practices have increasingly been integrated in education in recent years. This development has however been criticized as having unintended negative consequences on learning. Studies have indicated that its reliance …
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A study of an empowered school: An investigation of the development and the effect of a teacher empowerment process
… to describe the evolution of a school's advisory teacher empowerment process, to present an illustrative example of its use, and to investigate the effect of its use to propose school policy designed to solve for interruption to allotted instructional time due to the school's use of the intercom. …
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Teacher unionism and empowerment in rural Illinois school districts
This study investigates the problem of how teacher unionism in rural school districts relates to teacher empowerment within those districts. Specifically, the study attempts to examine which variables describing teacher unions in rural unit school districts in Illinois influence union presidents', …
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Teachers' Perceptions of Empowerment in Their Work Environments as Measured by the Psychological Empowerment Instrument.
<p>The purpose of this study was to investigate teacher perceptions of their empowerment. Six school systems in the Northeast Tennessee region were used in the study. Of the 600 teachers who were surveyed, 312 responded (52%). The Psychological Empowerment Instrument was used to survey the …
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The ends and means of empowerment and John Dewey: Examining the possibilities and consequences of a liberatory rhetoric
… reform, particularly the component of teacher empowerment. At another level, the paper tells the story of empowerment reform in the United States, primarily through Dewey's lens, to better understand the perspectives of national reformers, administrative theorists, and union leaders, …
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Mokytojų įgalinimas strateginio valdymo procesuose /
Promoting teacher empowerment is one of the most effective strategies in school management. During the empowerment process, the aim is for the teacher to identify himself with the school, its values and strategic goals, connecting them with personal needs and desires. Creating an enabling school is …
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The Principal's Roles in Creating and Maintaining Working Conditions in Schools in Georgia
… literature related to the five major domains of teacher working conditions in schools. The five major domains were time: facilities and resources; teacher empowerment; leadership; and professional development. The study was conducted to understand how the principal created and maintained …
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Empowering Early Childhood Teachers: A Community Based Participatory Research Approach
… a significant increase in the demands for teachers’ professional development, the work environments of teachers have not developed at a comparable rate. Due to research on inequity in teacher work environment, the purpose of this case study was to explore the role of empowerment in the …
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Culture of empowerment in a restructured school
“Culture of Empowerment in a Restructured School” is a qualitative study that explores how three teams of humanities teachers in a restructured high school try to create and sustain an environment in which they can make decisions over curriculum, pedagogy, and school self-governance. The study …
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Transforming a system: leadership to implement an intervention and referral services process that assists teachers
… innovative vision, conversations among teachers, and authentic student achievement still remains elusive today. Our limitations in putting new ideas into practice come not from a lack of will or effort, but, in part, from the influences of our personal stories, mental models, and an …
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Selected School Characteristics And Their Relationshipto High School Teacher Retention
… the perceptions of Orange County high school teachers and administrators regarding selected school characteristics and their relationship to teacher retention. The study was based on another investigation conducted by the Charlotte Advocates of Education (2004) inquiring into the working …
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The complexity of reform efforts in science curriculum and instruction: a case study of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy chemistry teacher
This study explores how teacher-initiated site-based reform in a specialized STEM school is conceptualized and enacted, how and why curriculum reform ideas change in the process of enactment, what qualities of teacher agency are entailed, how these qualities are acquired, interplayed, become …
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Contributory Factors to Teachers' Sense of Community in Public Urban Elementary Schools
<p>CONTRIBUTORY FACTORS TO TEACHERS' SENSE OF COMMUNITY IN PUBLIC URBAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS</p> <p>The purpose of this study was to investigate factors that contribute to teachers' sense of community within public, urban, elementary schools. Becauseprevious research has touted the benefits of …
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