Professional and Personal Experiences as Leverage for Learning

Teachers Participating in Professional Learning Activities: The Role of Personal, Organizational, and Administrative Factors

Teachers Participating in Professional Learning Activities: The Role of Personal, Organizational, and Administrative Factors   M. AhmadYoosofi* H. Motaharinejaad, Ph.D. ** H. Aazari, Ph.D. ***   To help with the improvement in professional learning of teachers the opinions of 190 elementary school teachers on developmental leadership, cooperation among teachers, internalization ...

Authentic Learning Experiences: Complementary Organizational Strategy For Academic Professional Development

There are numerous websites and considerable literature which describe approaches to learning and teaching using a range of technologies in higher education contexts for academic staff. Further, that as academic staff development is increasingly recognized as having an essential role to play in the recasting of ways in which teachers work with students and how students best learn, that this is ...

Developing a Personal Brand Shaping Pattern for Iranian Professional Athletes

The purpose of this study was to developing a personal brand shaping pattern for iranian professional athletes. The research method, based on the method of collecting data, was a mixed exploratory sequence. In the qualitative stage, data collection tools were semi-structured interviews with 23 professional sportsmen, coaches, sports marketing managers, psychologists and sports sociologists. The...

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Personal development as a contribution to professional development: activity based learning, graduate attributes and student learning outcomes

This paper is a record of a symposium that found its origins in a report on a curriculum initiative within one university program. Its motivation is to argue that it is timely for us to reconsider the place of physical activity learning experiences in University curricula. It first recalls the historical context surrounding the integration of physical education into Australian Universities and ...