Teacher Status And Professional Learning

Author : Linda Clarke
Publisher : Critical Publishing
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781910391495

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Teacher Status and Professional Learning by Linda Clarke Pdf

The concepts of status and professionalism are key issues in teaching and teacher education across the United Kingdom and internationally. While there is increasing recognition that high quality teachers are crucial, this coexists with a persistent culture of blaming and shaming them. Student teachers will live out their careers within this maelstrom so need to be encouraged to consider the place of their profession both locally and globally, and teacher educators can support them to make a realistic yet ambitious analysis. This book answers a fundamental need for teachers to position themselves in their professional world. It uses an innovative Place Model to explore the professional learning of teachers, examining place in terms of both hierarchical status and as a cumulative journey of professional learning within ever expanding horizons. It looks at the nature of professionalism, why teacher status is important, where trainees might fit within the model and what infrastructure needs to be in place to support teachers’ career long professional learning.

Author : Ly Thi Tran,Truc Thi Thanh Le
Publisher : Springer
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319705156

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Teacher Professional Learning in International Education by Ly Thi Tran,Truc Thi Thanh Le Pdf

This book examines the impact of internationalization, student mobility and transnational workforce mobility on the changing nature of teacher work and teacher professional learning in the Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector. Derived from a three-year project funded by the Australian Research Council across more than 30 VET and HE institutions, this is the first book that explores teacher professional learning in international education. The authors address how teachers position their professional responsibilities and learning in relation to the institutional structure, internationalization agenda and policy fields in which their profession is embedded by drawing on both empirical evidence and key concepts and models of teacher professional learning. This pioneering text provides international education and VET policy makers, practitioners, educators and researchers with unique insights and practical implications for enhancing teacher professional learning and capabilities in international education.

Author : Anne Campbell,Susan Groundwater-Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136032066

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Connecting Inquiry and Professional Learning in Education by Anne Campbell,Susan Groundwater-Smith Pdf

How might inquiry enhance the professional practice of student and practising teachers, teacher educators and other practitioners? What effect might this have on the learning of young people in and outside of the classroom? Based on the findings of an international colloquium and drawing upon a range of practices from the UK, USA, Canada, Europe and Australia, this book is designed to make explicit the connections between Practitioner Inquiry and Teacher Professional Learning in Initial Teacher Education and Ongoing Teacher Professional Development. Considering issues such as the relationship between practitioner inquiry and pedagogical content knowledge whether it is possible to scale up from small local and intensive innovations to more broadly-based inquiry inquiry’s role in professional identity, both individual and communal prevailing socio-political contexts and consequences for social policy formation. It brings together writers who work in designing teacher education courses, and those who are practice-based researchers and policy makers. Crucially, many of these writers inhabit both spheres, and their accounts of how they successfully combine their multiple roles will prove vital reading for all those involved in examining and improving practice leading to enhanced teacher professional learning.

Author : Isabel Sawyer,Marisa Ramirez Stukey
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781544336787

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Professional Learning Redefined by Isabel Sawyer,Marisa Ramirez Stukey Pdf

You’ve just found your new comprehensive guide to designing powerful professional learning! Full of protocols, vignettes, and case studies, this book dissects elements of professional learning, like coherence, connections, and content, and examines each through an evidence-based lens. Destined to become a go-to resource for anyone in a teacher-support role, this book analyzes research from the past 25 years on what makes professional learning work. In addition to focusing on the often-neglected role of the facilitator itself, other features include: A multi-year implementation framework to improve instructional practice Planning tools to shift instruction at the school and district level Techniques and strategies to embed content-based learning for all educators

Author : Helen Timperley
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335244058

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Realizing the Power of Professional Learning by Helen Timperley Pdf

Teacher professional development is often promoted as a panacea for improving schools but it rarely lives up to its promise. This book develops an approach to professional learning that has motivated teachers and resulted in impressive improvements in student learning, particularly for students who traditionally underachieve in school. As the underpinning research shows, the approach has proven successful in several countries with consistently positive outcomes. The book begins by identifying the shifts that need to happen for the power of professional learning to be realized in promoting student engagement, learning and well-being. Some shifts in thinking include: Moving from professional development to professional learning Putting student learning at the heart of professional learning Focusing on the knowledge and skills to be learned rather than the forms of delivery Focusing on the double-demand of being both immediately practical and developing underlying principles so that new problems can be solved in the future At the heart of the book is an inquiry and knowledge building cycle for teachers that is central to realizing the power of professional learning. The cycle is underpinned by research on how people learn and what it means to be a professional. Later chapters identify what leaders in schools and beyond can do to support teacher learning in ways that directly benefit students. Throughout the book there are case examples of real experiences of primary and secondary teachers and leaders across three countries (UK, Canada and New Zealand) that bring alive what it means to engage in professional learning in ways that excite teachers and benefit their students. This is essential reading for teachers who want to take control of their own professional learning in ways that make a difference to their students and school leaders with responsibility for promoting professional and student learning.

Author : Carey Philpott
Publisher : Critical Publishing
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781909682368

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Theories of Professional Learning by Carey Philpott Pdf

An essential guide to a number of important theories of professional learning, of particular value both to those taking on new responsibilities in relation to initial teacher education (ITE) and those interested in developing new ways of working in partnership. Each chapter provides a concise and critical overview of a key theory and then considers how it might impact on the processes and organisation of teacher education, drawing on key pieces of literature throughout. The book responds to the growth of interest and research in professional and work-based learning including ideas such as communities of practice, activity theory and socio-cultural theory alongside already established models such as those of Schön, Eraut and Shulman. In addition changing models of teacher education mean there are new ways of understanding professional learning as practices, roles and identities are re-established.

Author : Ruben Vanderlinde,Kari Smith,Jean Murray,Mieke Lunenberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000382532

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Teacher Educators and their Professional Development by Ruben Vanderlinde,Kari Smith,Jean Murray,Mieke Lunenberg Pdf

This book focuses on the professional development of teacher educators, forming a definitive and expert resource for all those interested in this area of professional learning. It offers an in-depth overview of existing international research and professional development initiatives in the area of teacher educators’ learning. The book highlights relevant research on the topic, identifies the lessons learnt from recent initiatives, and indicates ways forward for teacher educators’ professional learning internationally. It provides a unique combination of six years of pan-European collaborative work, resulting in a book with clear relevance and appeal to both academics and practitioners internationally. The book conceptualizes teacher educators’ professional development, in order to deepen understanding of how and why learning occurs and conducts empirical research into the professional development needs of teacher educators internationally using quantitative and qualitative methods in order to redress gaps in existing research. This book will be of great interest to academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of teacher education and professional development and learning.

Author : Ellen Larsen,Jeanne Maree Allen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030659318

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Teachers as Professional Learners by Ellen Larsen,Jeanne Maree Allen Pdf

Drawing upon data from an Australian study, this book gives voice to beginning teachers navigating their way through their first year of teaching and discovering what it means to be professional learners. The chapters within provide rich insights into the ways in which beginning teachers make sense of the new and challenging experiences they face during the first year of teaching, and how these influence the development of their learner identities at this formative time of their careers. Professional learning, in response to teacher standards and associated accountability measures, often fails to acknowledge the importance of internal motivation and attitude to beginning teachers’ sense of a professional learner identity. This book offers policy makers, teacher educators, school leaders, mentors and teachers a way of thinking about how beginning teachers can be supported to grow professionally and construct their identities as professional learners.

Author : Judy Williams,Mike Hayler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319220291

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Professional Learning Through Transitions and Transformations by Judy Williams,Mike Hayler Pdf

Through a narrative inquiry approach, this book examines the personal professional journeys of teacher educators who have undertaken self studies, and/or researched the professional development of teacher educators. The theme of the book is how change, through professional transitions and transformations and notably, through self study research, has shaped the professional identities and practices of these teacher educators. Each chapter is an exploration of how the author/s ‘became’ teacher educators in relation to personal and/or professional transitions, such as transitioning from teacher to teacher educator; moving between different institutional and geographic contexts; or from changes in philosophical, policy and/or pedagogical understandings over time. Each narrative draws on the author’s self study experience, and develops their knowledge further by presenting the wisdom they have gained over their career as teacher educators. The book concludes with a discussion of the connections between the diverse experiences of the authors, and what can be learned from their accumulated wisdom about what is means to become a teacher educator in a dynamic and ever-changing educational landscape.

Author : Michael Fullan,Shirley M. Hord,Valerie von Frank
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781483320502

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Reach the Highest Standard in Professional Learning: Implementation by Michael Fullan,Shirley M. Hord,Valerie von Frank Pdf

Implementation IS Effective professional learning! Learning Forward is a leader in understanding and advancing professional learning that leads to student success. This series explores Learning Forward’s seven Standards for Professional Learning, which outline the characteristics of effective professional learning that, collectively, advance teaching and learning. In this volume, you’ll get original essays, an inspirational case study, and detailed guidance on "implementing the implementation standard." Deepen your knowledge of the standards and learn how to: Use professional learning as a powerful lever for long-term change Invest in human and social capital to promote school-wide success through an original "think piece" by Michael Fullan Connect the standards to your site-specific needs Discover what it takes to implement lasting, high-impact professional learning and practice. This expert resource will show you how!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789087901257

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Dimensions of Professional Learning by Anonim Pdf

The contributors to this volume explore challenges and dilemmas around professional learning that confront educators in Australia. The book is organised around three dimensions of professional learning: professionalism, identity formation and communal sites of professional learning. It addresses important questions. In what ways do policies and practices mediate the construction of ‘a professional’ among current and future educators? How do communal spaces shape the professional learning of educators? What are the tensions that emerge in the construction of professional identity through professional learning? As a whole, all chapters provide insight into the dynamic nature of ‘professional becoming’.

Author : Margery B. Ginsberg
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781452230788

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Transformative Professional Learning by Margery B. Ginsberg Pdf

Motivation is foundational to learning This book’s bold new vision for professional learning emphasizes the importance of intrinsic motivation and respect for cultural diversity. Knowing that culture and motivation are inseparable influences on learning, Margery B. Ginsberg provides practical steps for teaching and learning that are grounded in the reality of students' lives. The program’s processes include: Shadowing students to help sharpen teachers’ understanding of student motivation. Conducting home visits to better connect with students’ lives and families Collaborating with other teachers to design lessons Analyzing data in collaboration with students, families, and community members

Author : Helen Timperley,Education Counts,New Zealand. Ministry of Education,Iterative Best Evidence Synthesis (programme),University of Auckland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 0790326280

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Teacher Professional Learning and Development by Helen Timperley,Education Counts,New Zealand. Ministry of Education,Iterative Best Evidence Synthesis (programme),University of Auckland Pdf

Author : Colleen McLaughlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781107618695

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Teachers Learning by Colleen McLaughlin Pdf

This book is part of The Cambridge Teacher series, edited by senior colleagues at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education, which has a longstanding tradition of involvement in high quality, innovative teacher education and continuing professional development.

Author : Lily Orland-Barak,Ditza Maskit
Publisher : Springer
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319499062

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Methodologies of Mediation in Professional Learning by Lily Orland-Barak,Ditza Maskit Pdf

This book critically explores the use of nine recognized methodologies for the mediation of professional learning in the context of teacher education: The story, the visual text, the case, the video, the simulation, the portfolio, lesson study, action research, and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Drawing on theories of mediation and professional learning, the book establishes connections between theoretical, empirical and practical-based aspects of each of these methodologies. It consolidates a body of knowledge that offers a holistic portrayal of these methodologies in terms of their purposes (what for), processes (how), and outcomes (what), both distinctively and inclusively. Each chapter offers four perspectives on each methodology (1) theoretical groundings of the genre (2) research-based evidence on methodologies-as-pedagogies for mediating teacher learning (3) mediation tasks for teacher education as reported in studies and (4) a synthesis of recurrent themes identified from selected books and articles, including a comprehensive list of publications organized by decades. The last chapter presents an integrative framework that conceptualizes connections and weak links across the different methodologies of mediation.