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Teaching with a questioning mind: An analysis of the development of a teacher research group into a discourse community.
(1999)
Data analysis suggested that RRWPTRG's collective identity as a teacher research group was rooted in prior overlapping settings that constrained the group's development of an overriding motive and the purposeful activities, ...
School improvement: An analysis of facilitating practices for central office administrators to support decentralized change in public school districts implementing the (I)(D)(E)(A) School Improvement Process.
(1997)
This study examined the perceptions of public school superintendents, central office administrators, principals, and teachers to determine the importance of central office administrator facilitating practices reported in ...
A case study of the adoption of a technology-based innovation in an urban school district: An e-portfolio initiative.
(2007)
The study also provides several recommendations for further research. Recommendations include the expansion of several demographic and/or contextual data points in an effort to provide rich narrative of the environment ...
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 ...
Staff development process that results in change: A training of trainers cadre.
(1997)
Findings that facilitate the implementation process were: (1) provide time for professional development; (2) ensure district and principal support; (3) establish follow-up and maintenance procedures; (4) designate someone ...
A teacher's perspective of the effectiveness of the Shurley Method of Language Arts Instruction.
(1998)
Research methods included observations of the language arts teacher in fifth-grade classrooms, interviews, and stimulated recall interviews. Administrators were also interviewed to assist in determining the context of the ...
An analysis of stage theory related to beginning social studies teachers: Research on professional development.
(1998)
With the consideration of the purpose and goals of this study, a qualitative research paradigm, with emphasis on using constant comparative analysis, was applied in this investigation. Data that were gathered in this ...
Master and novice secondary science teachers' understandings and use of the learning cycle.
(2000)
The learning cycle paradigm had been used in science classrooms for nearly four decades. This investigation seeks to reveal how the 1earning cycle, as originally designed, is currently understood and implemented by teachers ...
Embodied knowing in teacher education: factors that lead to teacher agency
(2021-12-18)
The purpose of this paper is to develop an initial theory explaining why some teachers are able to learn (as evidenced by implementation or integration into their practice) good technique and good theory while others cannot. ...
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, ...