Current Models and Approaches to In‐service Teacher Education

Form and Substance in Inservice Teacher Education

Much of the reform rhetoric about professional development is geared toward the form that such development should take. This literature advocates collaboration among teachers, schoolwide participation in professional development, programs that extend over time and are interspersed with classroom practice, programs that include classroom visitations, and so forth. Much less has been said about w...

Approaches to Sex Education: Peer-Led or Teacher-Led?

A collaborative-interactive model for mental health consultation: teacher inservice education by psychiatric clinicians.

The i m p o r t a n c e of br inging k n o w l e d g e f r o m the c l in ica l m e n t a l hea l th f ie ld in to school sys t ems has o f t e n been d iscussed in the l i terat u re [ 1 ] . Models and specif ic t e c h n i q u e s for br inging a b o u t in teract i on b e t w e e n schoo l p e r s o n n e l and cl inicians have var ied p r i m a r i l y acco rd ing to the o r i e n t a t i o...

Assessing teacher education and professional development needs for the implementation of integrated approaches to STEM education

Background: Given the growing interest in, and relevance of, integrated approaches to STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education, there is an urgent desire to understand the challenges and obstacles to developing and implementing integrated STEM curricula and instruction. In this article, we present phase 1 of a two-phase needs assessment study to identify challenges and...

a comparison of teachers and supervisors, with respect to teacher efficacy and reflection

supervisors play an undeniable role in training teachers, before starting their professional experience by preparing them, at the initial years of their teaching by checking their work within the proper framework, and later on during their teaching by assessing their progress. but surprisingly, exploring their attributes, professional demands, and qualifications has remained a neglected theme i...