scholarly journals Evaluation CEEPUS III - Evaluation of CEEPUS’ teacher mobility. Frequent travellers under the microscope

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanna Scheck ◽  
Zupan Ivan ◽  
Klaus Schuch
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1965 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel E. Griffiths ◽  
Samuel Goldman ◽  
Wayne J. McFarland

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Kostogriz ◽  
Gary Bonar

Abstract In the context of a rapid expansion of 'internationalized' schools around the world, and the subsequent demands for a teaching workforce, teachers are increasingly on the move. It is, however, no longer sufficient to represent international teacher mobility merely as a movement of predominantly English-speaking teachers who can deliver American, British, Canadian or Australian curricula. The increase in schools that offer bilingual and dual curricula has resulted in the mobility of local teachers who work alongside English-speaking ones. Although these schools are attractive to many international and local teachers, they also present certain professional, cultural and linguistic challenges. Drawing on the theory of practice architectures, this article identifies and discusses the relational tensions between foreign and local teachers as they grapple to build a new professional culture of collaboration ‐ one that demands the transformation of dispositions, professional knowledge, actions and judgements to 'fit in' to the internationalized school.


2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura M. DESIMONE ◽  
Michael S. GARET

ABSTRACT: This paper discusses best practices in teachers’ professional development (PD) in the United States (U.S.). We begin by presenting a conceptual framework for effective professional development, which suggests five key features that make professional development effective—content focus, active learning, coherence, sustained duration, and collective participation. We then describe the findings from recent U.S. research that has tested the five features, with an emphasis on the results of rigorous randomized control trials. We discuss several insights gained from this work and that have helped refine the framework. They are that (a) changing procedural classroom behavior is easier than improving content knowledge or inquiry-oriented instruction techniques; (b) teachers vary in response to the same PD; (c) PD is more successful when it is explicitly linked to classroom lessons; (d) PD research and implementation must allow for urban contexts (e.g., student and teacher mobility); and (e) leadership plays a key role in supporting and encouraging teachers to implement in the classroom the ideas and strategies they learned in the PD. We then examine three major trends in how professional development for teachers is evolving in the U.S.—a move away from short workshops, linking teacher PD to evaluations, and the use of video technology to improve and monitor the effects of PD. Finally, we discuss the challenges faced by districts and schools in implementing effective professional development.


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