What’s in It for Me?: How Does a Professional Development Programme Meet Science Teachers’ Career Expectations?

2017 ◽  
pp. 93-111
Author(s):  
Peer S. Daugbjerg ◽  
Martin Krabbe Sillasen
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Science Teachers ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
Career Expectations ◽  
Professional Development Programme

scholarly journals Innovative Aspects of the PROFILES Professional Development Programme Dedicated to Science Teachers

2015 ◽  
Vol 191 ◽  
pp. 1355-1360
Author(s):  
Ana-Maria Petrescu ◽  
Mirela Negreanu ◽  
Luminiţa Mihaela Drăghicescu ◽  
Gabriel Gorghiu ◽  
Laura Monica Gorghiu
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Science Teachers ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
Professional Development Programme

scholarly journals Change in Classroom Dialogicity to Promote Cultural Literacy across Educational Levels

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6410
Author(s):  
Merce Garcia-Mila ◽  
Andrea Miralda-Banda ◽  
Jose Luna ◽  
Ana Remesal ◽  
Núria Castells ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
Cultural Literacy ◽  
Educational Levels ◽  
Dialogic Teaching ◽  
Short Films ◽  
Living Together ◽  
Diverse World ◽  
Professional Development Programme

In a highly diverse world, cultural literacy is an essential tool for living together in harmony, and dialogic teaching may be a way to promote and develop it among children and adolescents. We define cultural literacy as a set of attitudes (inclusion, tolerance, and empathy) and skills (dialogic argumentation) needed to understand others in our everyday lives. This paper focuses on the effect of a professional development programme to promote dialogue and argumentation to help children and adolescents overcome pre-existing stereotypes and prejudices and foster students’ participation in discussions that contrast divergent viewpoints. This was done through debates on social responsibility issues, living together, and belonging as presented in books and short films addressing the following topics: citizenship, the celebration of diversity, democracy, globalisation, human rights, cooperation, sustainable development, and climate change. After the professional development programme was implemented, we video-recorded two of the 15 student–teacher interaction sessions during the project’s implementation (session #3 and session #8). We analysed the data using a validated coding scheme across three educational levels (three preschool, four primary school, and four secondary school classrooms). We observed moderate gains in secondary education and preschool, but statistically significant gains in primary education.

scholarly journals Meeting Teacher Expectations in a DL Professional Development Programme - A Case Study for Sustained Applied Competence as Programme Outcome

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Corné Kruger ◽  
Ona Janse van Rensburg ◽  
Marike De Witt
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Teacher Expectations ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
Teacher Competence ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
Class 1 ◽  
Professional Development Programme ◽  
The Way

<p class="1">Meeting teacher expectations for a professional development programme (PDP) is expected to strengthen sustainable applied competence as programme outcome since teachers will be more motivated to apply the programme content in practice. A revised distance learning (DL) programme was augmented by a practical component comprising a work-integrated portfolio and audio-visual material, aimed to support the applied competence of practising teachers in the South African context. An evaluation of the way the programme measured up to teacher expectations was deemed critical for future DL programme design. A qualitative study based on an interpretivist philosophical approach collected data of teacher expectations <em>for </em>and <em>of</em> the practical component through multiple methods. Their contributions were linked with four main themes related to applied competence as identified in the literature. Participant expectations and experiences with regards to each theme were compared by means of electronic coding through ATLASti™. The findings show a strong correlation between expectations <em>for</em> and experiences <em>of </em>the way the practical component supports the elements of applied competence. Since DL is viewed as a viable and cost effective way to improve teacher competence in developing countries, these findings serve as impetus for further investigation and refining ways to support applied competence in a distance learning professional development programme (DL PDP).</p>

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