Teachers As Professional Learners

Author : Ly Thi Tran,Truc Thi Thanh Le
Publisher : Springer
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 52,5 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 : Kathleen Smith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811035876

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Teachers as Self-directed Learners by Kathleen Smith Pdf

This book redefines teacher in-service education as being less about participation in a program and more about the opportunity for teachers to experience a process of learning that is personally meaningful and contextually relevant to their own teaching practice. The research presented here reveals that teachers have the capacity to think and work differently, yet are rarely provided with opportunities to exercise active decision-making about their personal learning needs. Creating and implementing such an approach involves reimagining all aspects of the learning experience so that teachers are free to articulate their own learning needs and actively work to determine what matters most for their professional practice. The book breaks new ground by drawing from research related to an in-service program where teachers, their experience and professional thinking were deliberately positioned at the centre of the learning experience. Using this evidenced-based approach, it focuses not only on the learning achieved, but also the conditions that enabled teachers to undertake such learning.

Author : Schleicher Andreas
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264252059

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International Summit on the Teaching Profession Teaching Excellence through Professional Learning and Policy Reform Lessons from around the World by Schleicher Andreas Pdf

If the quality of an education system can never exceed the quality of its teachers, then countries need to do all they can to build a high-quality teaching force.

Author : Ann Lieberman,Lynne Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-24
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015076197162

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Teachers in Professional Communities by Ann Lieberman,Lynne Miller Pdf

What are the challenges, and how has your program dealt with them?"--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Ellen Larsen,Jeanne Maree Allen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : A. Cendel Karaman,Silvia Edling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000374216

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Professional Learning and Identities in Teaching by A. Cendel Karaman,Silvia Edling Pdf

This book explores the reflective potentialities offered by analyses of teachers’ professional learning narratives. The book has a specific focus on narratives on professional learning and professional identities emerging from different contexts and gives a deeper understanding of successful teachers’ narratives globally. Diverging from universally standardized constructions of idealized teacher identity and professional learning, the book provides analyses of a diversified set of cases with detailed descriptions of each teacher’s idiographic and professional context to gain a deeper understanding of situated professional identities. With contributions from a range of international backgrounds, it shows teachers of various age groups, subject areas and curricula contribute their narratives to help readers reflect on different trajectories toward becoming a teacher. These narratives provide insight into and a deeper understanding of the conditions and complex processes that being a "successful" teacher involves within these case studies, providing a useful contribution to the field of teacher education. Professional Learning and Identities in Teaching: International Narratives of Successful Teachers will be of great interest to researchers, academics, and post-graduate students of teacher education and international and comparative education.

Author : Helen Timperley
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : Anne Campbell,Susan Groundwater-Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Colleen McLaughlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 41,7 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 : Alma Harris,Michelle Jones,Jane B. Huffman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317247883

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Teachers Leading Educational Reform by Alma Harris,Michelle Jones,Jane B. Huffman Pdf

Teachers Leading Educational Reform explores the ways in which teachers across the world are currently working together in professional learning communities (PLCs) to generate meaningful change and innovation in order to transform pedagogy and practice. By discussing how teachers can work collectively and collaboratively on the issues of learning and teaching that matter to them, it argues that through collective action and collaborative agency, teachers are leading educational reform. By offering contemporary examples and perspectives on the practice, impact and sustainability of PLCs, this book takes a global, comparative view showing categorically that those educational systems that are performing well, and seek to perform well, are using PLCs as the infrastructure to support teacher-led improvement. Split into three sections that look at the macro, meso and micro aspects of how far professional collaboration is building the capacity and capability for school and system improvement, this text asks the questions: Is the PLC work authentic? Is the PLC work being implemented at a superficial or deep level? Is there evidence of a positive impact on students/teachers at the school/district/system level? Is provision in place for sustaining the PLC work? Teachers Leading Educational Reform illustrates how focused and purposeful professional collaboration is contributing to change and reform across the globe. It reinforces why teachers must be at the heart of the school reform processes as the drivers and architects of school transformation and change.

Author : Margery B. Ginsberg
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 : Leah Shagrir,Smadar Bar-Tal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000410563

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Exploring Professional Development Opportunities for Teacher Educators by Leah Shagrir,Smadar Bar-Tal Pdf

Focusing on the partnerships and collaborations between teacher educators and students with regards to faculty members’ professional development, contributors from around the world provide insight into professional development opportunities in the context of teaching and collaborating with students. Contributions from these distinguished scholars come from a broad range of countries and cultures to ensure that the presented studies reveal rich information about diverse systems of teacher education. The studies presented in the book demonstrate how these faculty student partnerships can significantly assist faculty members to develop professionally and produce benefits and impacts on their professional identity. Providing ideas and tools aimed at teacher educators around the world, this book explores partnerships and cooperation as a tool to lead to development and ultimately promotion. This book is a must-read for all researchers, teacher educators and lecturers looking to expand their knowledge of partnerships with students in higher education.

Author : Michele Knobel,Judy Kalman
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781433129117

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New Literacies and Teacher Learning by Michele Knobel,Judy Kalman Pdf

New Literacies and Teacher Learning examines the complexities of teacher professional development today in relation to new literacies and digital technologies, set within the wider context of strong demands for teachers to be innovative and to improve students’ learning outcomes. Contributors hail from Argentina, Australia, Canada, Finland, Mexico, Norway, and the U.S., and work in a broad range of situations, grade levels, activities, scales, and even national contexts. Projects include early year education through to adult literacy education and university contexts, describing a range of approaches to taking up new literacies and digital technologies within diverse learning practices. While the authors present detailed descriptions of using various digital resources like movie editing software, wikis, video conferencing, Twitter, and YouTube, they all agree that digital «stuff» – while important – is not the central concern. Instead, what they foreground in their discussions are theory-informed pedagogical orientations, collaborative learning theories, the complexities of teachers’ workplaces, and young people’s interests. Thus, a key premise in this collection is that teaching and learning are about deep engagement, representing meanings in a range of ways. These include acknowledging relationships and knowledge; thinking critically about events, phenomena, and processes; and participating in valued social and cultural activities. The book shows how this kind of learning doesn’t simply occur in a one-off session, but takes time, commitment, and multiple opportunities to interact with others, to explore, play, make mistakes, and get it right.

Author : Carey Philpott
Publisher : Critical Publishing
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 : Helen Timperley,Education Counts,New Zealand. Ministry of Education,Iterative Best Evidence Synthesis (programme),University of Auckland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,5 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