Promoting professional development: A local approach

Improving Teaching Quality: Promoting a Dynamic Approach to Teacher Professional Development

This presentation draws on teacher effectiveness research to consider implications for teacher professional development. The first part provides a critical review of research on teacher effectiveness. The major findings of this field of research are analyzed. It is argued that teacher factors are presented as being in opposition to one another and that the whole process of searching for teacher...

Provide a model for professional development of teachers with a qualitative approach

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to present a model of professional development of teachers with a qualitative approach. Methodology: In this study, in order to identify the teacher professional development model, a qualitative interview was determined. The statistical population of the study in the qualitative part was all experts and experts in educational management and planning with ...

Promoting Teacher Professional Development through Online Task-Based Instruction

The importance of teachers in the success of Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) is unquestionable. However, designing a teacher course on TBLT raises many questions concerning ‘what’ and ‘how’ it can be implemented. Can teachers’ professional development be promoted through Task-Based Instruction (TBI)? This paper explores this question by examining the design and implementation of an online c...

Promoting Professional Resilience

Professional Associations: Promoting Leadership in a Career

LEADERSHIP COMMVNITY is vitally important in the wake of WITHIN THE L I B R ~ Y continual technological developments, recurrent budgetary shortfalls, and the fluidity of the job market for library professionals. Libraries must identi9 and foster the inherent personal characteristics and skills considered most relevant for leadership in the field of information management. Professional library a...