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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"teacher agency"”.
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Factors in Public School Settings that Result in Teacher Agency
… Many current school and district models minimize teacher ability to engage in meaningful change, ultimately undermining the teachers’ sense of personal and professional agency. Literature suggests that internal forms of motivation are likely to result in the development of agency via …
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From textbook adoption to implementation: investigating teacher agency amid educational reform in Vietnam
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Re-centering the teacher agency narrative: educators reflecting on context, positionalities, and situated identities
… qualitative study was to examine the extent of teacher agency in response to a culturally responsive professional development model. This study aimed at findings results from a three-year professional development intervention provided to educators in a highly diverse school district. Teachers …
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Chinese teacher agency in implementing English as foreign language (EFL) curriculum reform: an activity theory perspective
This study is about teacher agency in implementing EFL curriculum reform in the Chinese university context. Typically, Chinese EFL reading instruction at tertiary level involves a text-explanation model that requires 'bottom-up' reading strategies. However, recent national College English …
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Leadership and Teacher Agency for Inclusive Classrooms: Insights about Integrating Students with Disabilities into Inclusive Classrooms from Teachers and School Leaders in Three International Schools
… (i.e., students with special needs). Promoting teacher agency is a potentially important component in successfully implementing inclusive practices given that teachers are key actors in the implementation process. Currently, however, there is limited empirical evidence regarding the …
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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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An investigation into the integration of digital technology in teacher development for enhanced inclusion
The study addresses the problem of insufficient teacher training for technology integration in inclusive classrooms, and professional development opportunities. Prior research highlights barriers such as limited access, lack of confidence, and insufficient contextualised training, which hinder …
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An investigation into the impact of the marketization of further education on individual teacher identities using visual images, metaphors and narrative to analyse and evaluate the key themes and discourses
Teacher identity (Ti) is an important concept in helping to understand the variety of inter-connected influences that impact on the professional lives of teachers in further education (FE). Ti is under researched within the FE sector and is used in this study to analyse the impact of the …
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Teaching the new English curriculum in a Chinese school : An ethnographic study.
… study exploring the experience of five Chinese teachers of English in their implementation of the NEC. The researcher worked as a temporary English teacher in a high school in Southeast China between September 2007 and July 2008 gathering data through participant observation. Research data …
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Teachers as agents of change: teachers’ constructions of curricular change: a qualitative analysis of the STEPS PD Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS) programme in Northern Ireland primary schools
… outcomes it is the strategic positioning of teachers as agents of change that is deemed to be integral to the success of innovation and its enactment in practice. Physical Education (PE) has not evaded this reform agenda as evidenced by the growing trend towards the adoption of movement …
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Analyzing Professional Development To Foster Agency And Professional Growth Among Educators
… (PD) and leadership systems influence teacher agency and instructional coherence at a high-poverty, predominantly Black K–8 school in Chicago. Midwest Elementary Academy has faced persistent achievement gaps and systemic instability that hinder collaboration and teacher growth. Guided …
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Polycentricity and agency in the construction of expatriate teacher identity and pedagogical practice
Expatriate language teachers are often located at the nexus of two or more ideological systems with conflicting educational and linguistic values (Eusafzai, 2015; Scotland, 2014). These conflicts in values along with the more immediate pressure of working within a foreign education institution …
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Developing a school based science curriculum: Teachers' work as language work
… recognised that language is consequential in teachers' work within the classroom, this thesis argues that it is also consequential in their curriculum development work outside the classroom. The study takes a phenomenological approach based in a single school, and the key data sources are …
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The Lived Experience Of Rural CTE Teachers As Members Of The Secondary Education Teaching Corps
… students are taught by certified high school teachers with similar pedagogy but deliver instruction in different content areas. This qualitative study was conducted to understand how rural CTE high school teachers describe their lived experience of being a member of the secondary education …
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Transgressive acts in an era of accountability: narratives of New Jersey's public school teachers
… in the wake of AchieveNJ, New Jersey’s new teacher evaluation system. Ten teachers, each with five or more years of teaching experience, all of which had demonstrated manifestations of transgression, were selected from random schools throughout the state based upon surveyed response. Through …
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From inherited practices to imagined possibilities: teacher educator agency in American Orff-Schulwerk teacher education
Orff Schulwerk teacher educators (TEs) occupy a unique position of influence in American music education, with over 100 TEs teaching nearly 1,400 teachers across 43 locations in 30 states during summer 2024. Unlike music teacher educators in higher education, most Orff Schulwerk TEs are practicing …
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Meeting the Needs of English Language Learners with Interruptions in their Formal Schooling: A Comparative Case Study of Two Teachers' Classrooms
… pose challenges for Canadian high schools and teachers, the struggles faced by these learners to integrate and succeed in their new educational environments are far more complex. This study aimed to gain insight into how two teachers are attempting to support the academic, linguistic and social …
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Understanding the Professional Lives of Female Teachers in Rural Sub-Saharan African Schools: A Capability Perspective
… for All: the professional lives of female teachers in rural communities in Sub Saharan Africa. Teachers from five countries (Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Sudan) provide a focus for exploring the relationship between official representations of teachers' work and the professional …
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Investigating the Involvement of Teachers in the Curriculum Development of Life Sciences Education in Secondary Schools
… aims to examine the involvement of Life Sciences teachers in curriculum development and how their participation influences the effectiveness of Life Sciences education in secondary schools in the Vhembe District. Life Sciences is a key subject in secondary education, yet teachers’ voices in …
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