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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"teachers' professional learning"”.
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Teachers’ professional learning: perspectives and reflections of practising teachers
This thesis uses a case study to explore teachers’ professional learning in one secondary school in the south of England. An interpretive, qualitative case study approach was adopted. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews, questionnaires and staff biographies to explore the key …
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The influence of school staffs on primary PGCE trainee teachers' professional learning
… thesis is a multi-case study of the placement professional learning of fifteen primary PGCE trauiees within the school-based part of teacher training. It is concerned with the influence of individual staff, especially mentors and host class teachers, as well as of whole staffs and sub-groups, …
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Collaborative Lesson Study: A Qualitative Case Study of Elementary Teachers’ Professional Learning Experience
… practices in schools have impacted how teachers work together to prevent professional isolation. The mandate of collaborative practices has resulted in some teachers expressing frustration and a lack of benefit from their current experiences. The purpose of this qualitative case study, …
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A reflective investigation into special needs education teachers' professional learning through research into their own practice
… research can offer special needs education (SNE) teachers. The project has been based upon a ‘study of a study’ with a piece of small-scale personal research - an observational study of the play of children with severe learning difficulties — being used as the starting point for examining the …
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“They transformed our thinking”: An exploration of how, and under what conditions, working with historians and historical scholarship can contribute to UK secondary history teachers’ professional learning and practice development
… This thesis asks when, in what ways, and how, teachers’ engagements with disciplinary scholarship – research from the academic disciplines most closely related to the subjects they teach – can contribute to their professional learning and practice development. Engagements between schools and …
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Teachers' professional development experiences: Implications for teaching practice
… ways in which participation in physical science professional development impacts science teachers' professional learning and ultimately their practice over time. This study strove to provide a greater understanding of teachers' processes as they engage in professional learning and make changes in …
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Technology and Educational Change: Making the Links
This study investigated teachers' professional learning and pedagogy as they grappled with the challenges and implications of using new information and communications technologies (ICT) in their classrooms. It contributes to knowledge about the way teachers learn and change, their pedagogical …
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Narratives of teacher professional learning in Indonesia
This research was a narrative study of the professional learning of workshop leaders, that is, senior teachers whose professional growth prepared them to share their learning with other teachers. Six participants in this study made up three cases. Case 1 included three workshop leaders in an IB-PYP …
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Primary School Teachers’ Learning, Their Approaches to Teaching and the Relationships Between the Two: A Study in the Context of China
… developing students in all aspects, Chinese teachers today experience a high level of pressure (Zhang & Yu, 2007). To better prepare and support teachers at such a time, it is essential to understand teachers’ learning and teaching, as well as how these are related. This study employed a …
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A Patchwork Quilt: A Qualitative Case Study Examining Mentoring, Coaching, and Teacher Induction in the Western Québec School Board
… an effort to address teacher attrition, support professional growth, and improve teaching and learning. Conceptualized as a patchwork quilt, this thesis by article reports on a qualitative case study that examined the Teacher Induction Program (TIP) implemented in 2009 in the Western Québec …
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The interplay between instructional policy and its constituents: How mathematics teachers interact with and understand "Principles and Standards for School Mathematics"
… of the policy. Investigating how classroom teachers make sense of policy recommendations is particularly important, for teachers are the ones who ultimately decide what mathematics students learn, and how they learn it. This research followed a group of teachers as they studied a particular …
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A learning ecology framework for collective, e-mediated teacher development in primary science and technology
… a framework for making sense of the collective professional learning of primary Science and Technology teachers in an elearning mediated context. Web-based networks and collaboratories are playing an increasingly prominent role in private and public sector knowledge building and innovation. In …
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Rethinking formative assessment through peer observation and reflection: A case study of Pakistani ESL lecturers’ cognition and practices
Peer observation can be applied to assess teachers’ performance. Despite an ever-growing corpus of literature on peer observation of teaching in education, very little research has been undertaken in tertiary level contexts where English is a second language (ESL), and no such study has been …
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Pre-primary teachers’ enacted understandings of explicit instruction of phonics and phonological awareness as evidenced in practice
Whether or not teachers use the research-based practices of Explicit Instruction (EI) in lessons matters, since the salient features of EI design and delivery, backed by empirical research (Hattie, 2009), enable the transfer of new and difficult information from short- to long-term memory …
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The Development of Teachers’ Knowledge and Behaviour in Promoting Preschoolers’ Self-Discipline
… a programme of in-service training for teachers on the topic of self-discipline in preschool children in Thailand. The study is predicated on the notion that a lack of understanding of ways to enhance self-discipline amongst young children can lead to difficult and challenging behaviour …
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Professional learning in a Vietnamese university language teaching context: An inquiry-driven approach
… of six EFL (English as a foreign language) teachers from two Vietnamese universities, and how the inquiry process shaped the teachers’ professional learning, paying attention to cycles of reflection and co-construction of knowledge. Student-centred approaches relevant to English language …
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Supporting Licensed Science Teachers’ Professional Development in Adopting Learner-Centred Pedagogy in Tanzanian Secondary Schools
… was to obtain a better understanding of the professional learning needs of Tanzanian science teachers who were recruited using an alternative route approach to teacher recruitment and to seek ways to address these needs. The alternative route to teacher recruitment usually refers (but not …
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An Analysis of the Perceived Impact of Lesson Study on Improving Secondary School STEM Teacher Effectiveness
… Lesson study is one possible model of professional learning that is both reflective and collaborative (Sims & Walsh, 2009, p. 731). The cyclical nature of lesson study makes it a natural fit for continuous improvement. Yet, little research into the effectiveness of lesson study as a …