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Reformation of the teaching profession: A genealogy of the Oklahoma Commission for Teacher Preparation as a regulatory standards board .
(2006)
Utilizing public and private archives, media reports, state and federal reports, literature of professional organizations and oral history interviews, the second portion of the paper presents the case---the Oklahoma ...
How caring informs teaching.
(2006)
This study is a qualitative investigation into the concept of care based on a heuristic research design constructed by Clark Moustakas. The researcher relied on the belief that teachers are knowers through lived experience ...
Early childhood preservice teachers' autonomy in constructing personal practical theories of teaching and learning.
(2006)
In the findings, the differences of four early childhood preservice teachers in the match or mismatch between their philosophy and personal practical theory related to the how preservice teachers have developed their ...
The function of context, influence and intuition in solving problems of leadership.
(2006)
The purpose of the study was to determine if training novice leaders to identify context, influence and intuition embedded in a real life problem-solving narrative as affecting the explicitness they used in describing how ...
Preservice teachers' beliefs about young adolescents and their impact on grade level teaching preference.
(2006)
Middle level education programs need qualified, specifically trained teachers to best address the needs of their young adolescent learners. However, despite extensive information as to what constitutes appropriate middle ...
It is the process, not the test: A mixed method study of a professional learning community at one elementary school in Oklahoma.
(2006)
The juxtaposition of the quest for reaching accountability benchmarks and the desire for meeting students' individual needs has created a problem for district administration, site principals, and school staff. As a result, ...
Does one school district's professional development model lead to improved student academic achievement?
(2006)
The results of this study contribute to narrowing the gap that is documented in the research literature concerning the true impact of professional development at the school district level. In addition, this study attempts ...