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This study examined the experiences of 18 specialist primary and secondary teachers in the Teachers’ International Professional Development Program who visited schools in the USA as they set about establishing collaborative projects with their hosts. The focus was on the potential of such collaboration to engender professional development outcomes and to examine the circumstances enabling or impeding success. A surprising finding was the small number of teachers who managed to start a collaborative project.
Published: 2008
Updated: May. 04, 2009
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The paper illustrates the University of Florida's efforts to understand the ways that prospective teacher education can be linked to individual school improvement efforts. It explains how teacher educators and their school-based partners collaboratively craft their professional development school work with prospective and practicing teachers to target school improvement and teacher learning. The authors illustrate four models for engaging in inquiry-oriented school improvement and outline the factors that underlie their design.
Published: 2008
Updated: Apr. 22, 2009
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This is a longitudinal, mixed methods study. It presents a thorough examination of the effects of a distinctive teacher preparation program on important constructs related to prospective teacher preparedness to teach mathematics for understanding, including mathematics pedagogical and teaching efficacy beliefs, mathematics anxiety, and specialized content knowledge for teaching mathematics. The results indicate that the programmatic features experienced by the prospective teachers in this study, including a developmental two-course mathematics methods sequence and coordinated developmental field placements, provided a context supporting teacher change.
Published: 2009
Updated: Apr. 06, 2009
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The study empirically assessed one community's efforts to close the literacy's gap between its advantaged and disadvantaged children. Over a 3-year period, a grassroots venture consisting of business, university and public school personnel provided teachers in 22 California state preschool classrooms with a literacy-rich curriculum. They also provided the teachers with weekly support from a literacy coach and professional development on early literacy acquisition and instruction.
Published: 2009
Updated: Apr. 06, 2009
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Using Activity Systems Analysis to Identify Inner Contradictions in Teacher Professional Development
This study took place in the United States and explored teacher perspectives on the situational factors that influence their professional development. The study used Engeström's (1987) approach of four levels of inner contradictions in activity systems analysis.
Published: 2009
Updated: Apr. 01, 2009
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This research investigates the experiences of elementary and early childhood pre-service teachers from the U.S. engaged in a month long study abroad internship program in England. The authors use a hermeneutic approach to interrogate their evolving sense of professional development and their understanding of cultural differences in the internship in England.
Published: 2009
Updated: Apr. 01, 2009
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This article develops a model for self-directed professional development using interview data from 55 Zimbabwean A-level Science and Mathematics teachers. It focuses on teachers' decisions about using ICT in their own professional development.
Published: 2009
Updated: Mar. 30, 2009
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Video has long been used to capture microteaching episodes, illustrate classroom cases and practices, and to review teaching practices. Video annotation tools offer the potential to support both the reflection and analysis of one's own teaching with minimal video editing as well as the ability to associate captured video with related student and teaching evidence. In this article, the authors compare and contrast emerging video annotation tools and describe their applications to support and potentially transform teacher reflection.
Published: 2009
Updated: Mar. 23, 2009
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The paper describes the theoretical framework, research base, structure, and content of a video-based professional development program. This program was implemented during 2 consecutive years with sixth-grade mathematics teachers from five low-performing schools.First, difficulties teachers encountered in responding to video-based prompts during the 1st year are summarized. Changes that were made to the program to address teachers’ needs in the 2nd year are then described.
Published: 2009
Updated: Mar. 23, 2009
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This study examines mathematics teacher learning in a video-based professional development environment called video clubs. In particular, the authors explore whether teachers develop professional vision, the ability to notice and interpret significantfeatures of classroom interactions, as they participate in a video club.The results suggest that professional vision is a productive lens for investigating teacher learning via video.
Published: 2009
Updated: Mar. 23, 2009