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We describe an urban school initiative aimed at teachers’ professional development with the goal of increasing their mathematics content knowledge and helping them improve their practice. In the lowest performing schools, mathematics specialists were employed to teach only mathematics in upper-elementary grades (ages 9–12). One aspect of this initiative was a provision of time and space for the formation of site-based professional communities that were intended to support teachers in trying to implement changes in their practice. Teachers’ professional communities developed at some sites and not at others. In this analysis, we explore the conditions that afforded or constrained the development of teachers’ professional communities. Using two contrasting school sites as examples, we describe five aspects of the teachers’ individual and collective professional lives that influenced the emergence of teachers’ professional communities. 相似文献
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教师角色:从"规定"走向"赢得" 总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4
长期以来,教师的角色价值主要是以外在取向为主,教师只是按照社会规定或期望的角色规范进行职业行为,这种规定性的角色严重抑制了教师主动性、创造性的发挥和自我潜能的实现,成为教师专业化发展的羁绊.在教师专业发展和课程改革对教师角色的要求下,教师角色只有从"规定"走向"赢得",即追求一种自我更新的价值取向,教师的职业实践才会具有生命意义. 相似文献
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教师自主学习是指教师在专业成长目标指引下的、积极主动参与学习的、引起教师专业知识和能力生长变化的过程。教师自主学习是教师专业成长的核心,具有能动性、创造性、独立性、灵活性、有效性、目的性等特征。高校教师自主学习的动力将直接影响其专业发展,进而影响高等教育质量。对高校教师自主学习的内外动力因素分析,能有效地寻找到激发教师自主学习的策略,促进教师专业成长,实现自我价值。 相似文献
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Educational reform policies such as the No Child Left Behind Act continue to place great demands on teachers. Additionally,
educational reform policies such as this imply the need for continuous professional development activities that enhance teacher
qualifications, especially for practicing teachers. This study examined the effectiveness of a nation-wide mentor-coach initiative
towards enhancing teacher pedagogy and its effect on children’s literacy performance. Forty-four Head Start teachers and classrooms
were examined. Results indicated that reading and writing scores benefited significantly more when teachers participated in
the mentor-coach initiative. These findings suggest that professional development activities such as mentor-coach initiatives,
if offered appropriately, can enhance children’s academic performance. 相似文献
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乡村教师专业发展的支持体系建设是一项影响教师教育振兴行动计划实施和乡村教师专业发展质量的系统工程。乡村教师专业发展支持体系建设过程既要体现支持体系的保障性、学习性、激励性和专业性的特点,也要实现内外支持各因素之间的相互融合,用政策与合作机制融通各层级人员之间的协作关系,通过学习支持环境建设孕育学习磁场,不断优化和创新专业性支持的途径和方法,把可持续的外部支持力量与乡村教师专业发展的自觉性、主动性和创新性融合起来,最终实现支持体系建设"外塑-外生"和"内塑-内生"的有机结合。 相似文献
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教师专业发展的自主性是教师自觉、主动地行为进而努力实现自身专业素养,包括知识、技能、情意等不断地提升、成长和成熟的一种能力品质。文章以自编的教师专业发展自主性及其影响因素调查问卷为工具,随机抽取1000名中小学教师为样本进行问卷调查,着重分析了中小学教师专业发展的自主性状况,揭示了影响教师自主专业发展的各种因素,为提高教师专业发展的自主性、促进教师自主地成长提供了一些策略和建议。 相似文献
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Cliona Murphy Greg Smith Benjamin Mallon Erin Redman 《Environmental Education Research》2020,26(8):1112-1136
AbstractResearch suggests that innovative and engaging professional development is instrumental in supporting teachers in developing their competence and confidence in teaching sustainability. An international initiative was developed to explore whether a competencies-oriented Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) professional development model was transferable across three different international contexts (Ireland, Germany and Mexico). This paper reports on the adaptation of this model within the Irish context, through the development of an innovative professional development programme for primary teachers. Through a mixed-methods approach which gathered data via pre- and post-programme surveys, teachers’ reflective journals and post-programme group interviews, the paper explores Irish primary school teachers’ experiences of, and attitudes towards, teaching sustainability through science education after participation in a professional development programme. The findings suggest that this programme, structured around the existing evidence for effective professional development in science education and ESD, positively influences teachers’ self-efficacy, supports teachers’ critical engagement with sustainability competencies and promotes the development of transformative pedagogies for sustainability through Inquiry-Based Science Education. 相似文献
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Jonatan Castaño-Muñoz Marco Kalz Karel Kreijns Yves Punie 《Technology, Pedagogy and Education》2013,22(5):607-624
ABSTRACTResearch on the use of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for teacher professional development (TPD) and the characteristics of their participants is scarce. This article presents a case of a MOOC initiative supported by the Spanish Ministry of Education aiming at teachers’ professional development on the use of ICT for teaching and learning. The analysis is focused on (a) the sociodemographic and school characteristics of the teachers participating in MOOCs; (b) their experience and beliefs about lifelong learning; and (c) the relevance of MOOCs for their work. By contrasting the characteristics of the participants in this initiative with the characteristics of the whole population of teachers in Spain, and a sample of Spanish participants in MOOCs not aimed at TPD, the article sheds light on the specificities of the teachers who use this way of TPD. The results have implications for the design of programmes aimed to develop MOOCs for TPD. 相似文献
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The current science education reform movement emphasizes the importance of professional development as a means of improving student science achievement. Reformers have developed a vision for professional development based upon intensive and sustained training around concrete tasks that is focused on subject‐matter knowledge, connected to specific standards for student performance, and embedded in a systemic context. Using data from a National Science Foundation Teacher Enhancement program called the Local Systemic Change initiative, this study employs hierarchical linear modeling to examine the relationship between professional development and the reformers' vision of teaching practice. The findings indicate that the quantity of professional development in which teachers participate is strongly linked with both inquiry‐based teaching practice and investigative classroom culture. At the individual level, teachers' content preparation also has a powerful influence on teaching practice and classroom culture. At the school level, school socioeconomic status was found to influence practice more substantially than either principal supportiveness or available resources. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Res Sci Teach 37: 963–980, 2000 相似文献
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教师主动发展是促进教师的专业成长的关键,是学校的始终思考与追求。邀请课能激励教师把课堂教学的研究与提高当作自己主动发展的目标,激发教师在专业发展中的主动追求,自觉地承担起专业发展的主要责任。在推进邀请课建设的过程中,应该健全机制,重视专家的作用,同时还要区分不同层次的教师,分别予以重视。此外还应该注重校际之间的合作。 相似文献
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Charlene A. Sexton 《International Journal of Lifelong Education》2013,32(2):81-98
This is the first of two linked papers which explore the implications for professional learning of the ethnic and cultural diversity which marks contemporary developed societies. The first paper considers the responsibilities brought to professionals by multicultural contexts for their practice and reviews educational provision in relation to these responsibilities for one group, namely the police. The two papers are based on a case study of the contribution of continuing professional education to the development of the Race Relations Policy of Metropolitan Toronto Police. This initiative brings lessons for any organization or professional group. The paper describes the Race Relations Policy and sets its development in the context of new models of policing currently being created and the legislative framework surrounding the initiative. The paper considers the implications for professional learning of policy development of this kind, and examines the extent to which continuing professional education programmes respond to issues relating to visible minorities. The paper reviews issues in training and education in police services and summarizes recent approaches to police education and training. Using the foregoing analysis as a base, the paper then focuses on race relations education and training in police services, reviewing different approaches and the successes (or problems) which their proponents (or critics) have claimed for them. This examination, drawing on material from both the UK and Canada, concludes that a focus on the training of individual officers produces only limited effects. Change of the kind needed for the development of Metropolitan Toronto Police Services’ Race Relations Policy, and for their creation of a new model of policing, draws on organizational measures to change institutional life radically. Such an ambitious project is supported by novel forms of learning, undertaken outside the classroom. These will be the subject of the second paper. 相似文献
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the incorporation of iPads into the early childhood classroom through an exploratory teacher professional development initiative. Eighteen early childhood educators participated in a 6-month study targeting teacher professional development and pedagogical innovation. This study included built-in opportunities for teacher collaborative discussions and support in their team meetings, as well as basic technology training on the use of an iPad in a classroom. A thematic analysis was conducted using constructed codes from teacher interviews and focus groups, as well as artifact collections of notes from teacher bi-monthly meetings. Results indicate that teachers used technology in three innovative ways: as an efficiency solution, as a bridge in virtual parent communication, and as curriculum enhancement or replacement. The researchers of this study argue that using the iPad as curriculum is the next area of professional growth for early childhood teachers. 相似文献
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《师资教育杂志》2012,38(4):389-406
Although online professional development (OPD) is recognised as a viable alternative to face-to-face professional development, there are some obstacles to the delivery of effective OPD. This study examines one such obstacle, teachers' technological readiness for OPD participation. In particular, this study examines six research questions regarding the technological readiness of US elementary and secondary educators who participate in OPD. The data source was ‘e-Learning for Educators', a large-scale OPD initiative implemented between 2006 and 2011 in the US. The data show that this population of teachers, in general, report that they believe online professional development is as effective as face-to-face professional development; have easy access to the required technology; possess the required computer/technical skills; and perceive some of these skills to improve with course participation. Though these findings are largely favourable from the perspective of OPD stakeholders, this study also finds some variability among teachers that might warrant possible mitigation strategies. 相似文献
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Aline M. Stomfay‐Stitz 《Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education》2013,34(4):297-298
While it is clear that reading is critical to children's success throughout schooling and reading instruction research has dramatically increased over the past 2 decades, few early childhood providers have the necessary knowledge, skills and/or confidence to effectively implement evidence-based, emergent literacy strategies in their settings. This article explores the impact of the Early Learning Opportunities (ELO) initiative that provided funding to train early childhood providers to utilize the HeadsUp! Reading (HUR) curriculum in their settings. Noteworthy in this initiative was the inclusion of a coaching component designed to increase participants' ability to generalize HUR instructional practices into their classroom. Also important here was the opportunity to evaluate teaching outcomes. Results from this study indicate that all participants benefited from their involvement in the professional development activities, and that those who received coaching had an advantage with respect to growth in knowledge, skills, and confidence in implementing the new strategies into their classrooms. Implications for professional development activities suggest that coaching efforts to support implementation of newly acquired skills in the classroom may improve teacher performance. 相似文献
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Karen Goodnough 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2016,27(7):747-767
Primary/elementary teachers are uniquely positioned in terms of their need for ongoing, science-focused professional development. They are usually generalists, having limited preparation for teaching science, and often do not feel prepared or comfortable in teaching science. In this case study, CHAT or cultural–historical activity theory is used as a lens to examine primary/elementary teachers’ activity system as they engaged in a teacher-driven professional development initiative. Teachers engaged in collaborative action research to change their practice, with the objective of making their science teaching more engaging and hands-on for students. A range of qualitative methods and sources such as teacher interviews and reflections, teacher-created artifacts, and researcher observational notes were adopted to gain insight into teacher learning. Outcomes report on how the teachers’ activity system changed as they participated in two cycles of collaborative action research and how the contradictions that arose in their activity system became sources of professional growth. Furthermore, this research shows how the framework of activity theory may be used to garner insight into the activity and learning of teachers as both their professional activities and the context change over time. 相似文献
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David Strahan 《Teacher Development》2016,20(5):667-681
Opportunities for self-guided professional development provided a context for exploring ways that mid-career teachers designed learning projects and articulated their perceptions of professional growth. In their applications for small grants for materials and released time, participants identified their own personal goals for improving instruction, designed plans of action, and assessed results. Intensive case studies with six participants documented ways that they integrated professional growth experiences to varying extents based on the nature of their relationships with colleagues. Those who benefited most from their participation had more collaborative relationships and used data more sophisticatedly. Although it is impossible to generalize beyond the context of this initiative, case studies like these affirm the importance of teacher voice and agency in professional development, especially when facilitated by opportunities for extensive conversations about learning and teaching. 相似文献
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周进军 《涪陵师范学院学报》2006,22(3):83-86
随着现代教育的不断发展,“教师即研究者”日渐成为教师专业发展的一个重要理念。行动研究是教师为解决自己教学上的问题、提高教学质量而进行的一种探索性活动,是教学过程中问题解决的一种特殊形式,是一个能动的、反思性的认知加工过程,具有自主实践性、理论应用性、整体合作性、动态生成性等特点。教师行动研究对促进教师专业素养的提升,形成集体专业自信,培养专业技能等方面具有十分重要的意义,是教师专业成长的重要途径。 相似文献
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This paper reports on qualitative research from an Australian, K-6, faith-based school about teachers’ experience of a job-embedded professional learning initiative (the Whole-School Benchmarking of Writing, WSBoW) that was designed to improve teachers’ capacity to apply data-driven decision-making to achieve improvements in student learning. Teacher interviews provided the data about experiences and influences on teching practice. The findings demonstrated that the professional learning initiative provided teachers with a supportive pedagogical tool for focusing their teaching practices on improving student learning. A research based evaluative framework was used as a heuristic to analyse the change initiative. This study used the framework and employed a social constructivist and sociocultural epistemology that recognised the importance of leadership and school context in the development of a culture focused on collaborative communities of practice and data-driven teacher decision-making. The study has significance for leaders, schools and systems that engage teachers in professional capacity building. 相似文献
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Professional development is a requirement of every reform effort. Most states in the USA mandate a certain number of days in the school calendar to be allocated for professional development. Other nations often fund professional development for teachers to accompany an initiative to improve student performance. Although assumptions about why and how professional development should be conducted are shared, empirical evidence is relatively slim. Recent research generally focuses on the role of professional development in school reform. This study investigates the characteristics of involvement in professional development at the level of the district-the umbrella organisation for a geographic collection of schools. As part of a larger study, this research examines the professional development activities in school districts in relationship to overall district health. How do healthy and unhealthy districts differ in their approaches to professional development? What is the relationship between district health and student achievement? While confirming some of the assumptions about what makes effective professional development, this study provides research-based evidence for what districts can do to ensure district-wide impact and to bring about and sustain change. Furthermore, it illustrates the close association of district health and student achievement. 相似文献