Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"teacher professionalism"”.
-
Teacher Professionalism Within the Community
<p>This study examines the current trend of teacher status as viewed by teachers, parents, and community members. The status of teachers has changed over history from one of a revered scholar who imparts knowledge on future leaders to one of a civil servant who is at fault for the ills involving …
-
Teacher: Professionalism in Saskatchewan's Community Schools
… investigate the impact of community schools on teachers' sense of professionalism. The central question was, ''what factors best explain teachers' sense of professionalism while working in community schools?" Community schools in Saskatchewan focus on health and behavioral outcomes as well as …
-
Mentoring in an independent secondary school : teacher professionalism explored
This thesis investigates the influence that teacher professionalism has, at an Independent Secondary School, on formal and informal mentoring of new teachers. It attempts to elucidate the extent to which experienced teachers see mentoring their new colleagues in the classroom embedded within their …
-
Conceptualising College Phronēsis for Teacher Professionalism: A Cartographic Research Assemblage
… offering a new philosophical foundation for teacher professionalism. As a professional doctorate study this research is grounded in my practice as a researcher and educator: it therefore embodies a duality in perspective and purpose that is unique to professional doctorate studies (Burnard et …
-
The role of principals in promoting teacher professionalism in Umbumbulu District Secondary schools
… examined the role of principals in promoting teacher professionalism. The study made use of questionnaires to determine what principals do / do not do to promote and maintain teacher professionalism. On the basis of views from respondents, the study concluded that teachers in the areas …
-
A challenge to teacher professionalism : the training and deployment of Specialist Teacher Assistants in the North West of England
… by a responsible adult, rather than a qualified teacher. The ST A initiative introduced a different set of tasks for classroom assistants. These placed a direct emphasis on assistants "contributing to teaching and learning of basic skills" (DfE 1993: par. 33). STAs were trained to work in the …
-
Veteran teacher voices: Relational accountability and ethical professionalism in second-level education in Ireland.
Teacher professionalism has become an increasingly contested and ambiguous concept in international and national educational discourses. Policy rhetoric ostensibly aimed at increasing teacher professionalism is critiqued as in fact eroding some of its core tenets (Sachs 2016; Biesta 2015a; 2015b; …
-
Louisiana Charter Schools Leading in High Stakes Testing: Teacher's Perspective on Their Charter Schools' Success
… The purpose of this study is to investigate teacher responses to the question "Why is your charter school leading the district in high stakes testing?" The Louisiana State Evaluation Team has determined that the three charter schools featured in this study have been consistently outperforming …
-
A Study of Group Attitudes Toward the Professional Status of Teachers in Selected Adventist Elementary and Secondary Schools
… in turn affected the work behavior and morale of teachers.</p> <p>Method. A Professional Role Orientation Scale (PROS) was responded to by 701 randomly selected subjects. The scale contained four criteria identifying professional aspects of teaching as a profession. Responses to the instrument …
-
Unveiling the layers of educational reform: A critical realist analysis of the ideation, development and enactment of the Philippine professional standards for teachers policy
This study investigates changes in teacher professionalism in the Philippines in response to globalising education policies, with a particular focus on the impact of the 2017 Philippine Professional Standards for Teachers (PPST) policy introduced under the conditions of official development …
-
Knowledge or Control? Teacher Knowledge, Professional Identity and Practitioner Research
Abstract: Knowledge or Control? Teacher Knowledge, Professional Identity and Practitioner Research In this thesis, I have taken an English independent school as a case study and used an evolving design to explore teachers’ views of school education, teacher knowledge and teacher research, …
-
Creating Cold War Role Models: The AFT's and NEA's Use of Cold War Discourses to represent K-12 Teachers as Professionals during the Baby Boom Era, 1946-1965
Teachers during the Baby Boom era (1946-1964) faced mounting pressures to be Cold War role models to the rapidly expanding population of students. Politicians, education scholars, school administrators, and community leaders considered teachers a central component to Cold War success. K-12 teachers …
-
The application of interpersonal communication and group dynamics skills as a curriculum component for the professional development of pre- service teachers
This study explores the development of teacher professionalism as it is reflected both historically and philosophically in the educational reform movements of the 1830's and 1980's. Within this framework the study argues that interpersonal communication and group dynamics skills training is now a …
-
Examination of the Influence of Instructional Coaching on Teacher and Principal Behavior, Attitudes, and the Resultant Learning Environment
… transformations in classroom practices for teachers to become agents of change. As such, teacher professionalism is at a threshold; moral purpose and change agentry are implicit in good teaching and effective change (Fullan, 1993). Systems do not change themselves; rather, they change …
-
Learning to Teach: A Case Study of Kindergarten Teachers in Hong Kong
"The ""learning-to-teach"" process of the two teachers revealed four elements (the teacher as a person, the school context, the teacher education program, and the socio-cultural context) that interacted with one another to shape their teacher knowledge. They began to learn about teaching long …
-
Evaluating the effects of integrated quality management system (IQMS) in enhancing teaching and learning in King Cetshwayo District High Schools
… System (IQMS) is a nationwide policy to enhance teacher productivity in South Africa. It is a school quality management system with a two-fold objective of fostering teacher professionalism and bolstering responsibility inside educational institutions. Encompassed in teacher professionalism is …
-
The relationship between school climate and faculty trust: An exploration across elementary schools in Shanghai
… faculty trust. Thirty elementary schools of 726 teachers in Jiading District of Shanghai have participated in this study. Each teacher completed a questionnaire with two measurements: School Climate Index (SCI) and Omnibus Trust Scale (OTS). Both have been translated, revised and tested for …
-
Academic optimism and organizational climate: an elementary school effectiveness test of two measures
… up of four dimensions: principal leadership, teacher professionalism, achievement press for students to perform academically, and vulnerability to the community (Hoy et al., 2002). An examination was conducted on each framework. Their relationship was tested and analyzed how they would predict …
-
HEI school partnership in initial teacher training: the balance of HEI-school responsibilities for, and the nature of, secondary PGCE courses
… reflection, and other aspects of the nature of teachers', tutors' and students' work on PGCE courses. The implications of these course characteristics in terms of the forms of teacher professionalism associated with them provides a complementary theme which runs through the study. The latter …
Page 1 of 2