To maintain a professional identity, teachers are to some degree dependent on their student’s mental representations of, and interactions with, them. This affords students’ relational power over teachers possibly invoking a unique form of attachment dependence and responding in some teachers. Data reported in this paper were drawn from a larger research project which asked 11 questions about th...

There are very few credible frameworks for evaluation of teacher education programmes. The authors advocate the application of a paradigm originally designed for educational software assessment as a framework for reviewing teacher professional development. The framework is based on a situated view of cognition and this ensures an authentic approach. Five commonly observed foci for teacher profe...

Professional development and teacher education policies have the potential to greatly affect teachers’ abilities to teach and, as a result, students’ abilities to learn. States can play varied roles in the provision of teacher education and professional development. This policy brief summarizes states’ policy approaches to teacher professional development and education throughout teachers’ care...

PURPOSE Professional Identity Formation (PIF) has become a core concept in various professional education fields as it emphasizes professionals’ dispositions well abilities. This study provides an overview of PIF and explores the characteristics programs that highlight PIF. Through this overview, purpose is to propose ‘Professional Matrix for Physical Education Teacher (PIMPET)’, which helps id...

Models of teacher professional development for the integration of information and communication technology into classroom practice Making better connections Models of teacher professional development for the integration of information and communication technology into classroom practice CONTENTS Executive summary 1 Advice and recommendations 3 Chapter 1 Introduction 9 1.1 Definitions of terms u...

Although decades of research have well elaborated on teacher professional development, we still do not have a thorough picture about what teacher professional development could entail and what components it consists of. The present study aims to develop and validate a teacher professional development scale in an Iranian English foreign language context. An initial tentative model with 130 items...

The school has increasingly become the focus for teacher professional development and school leaders are maximizing teacher learning through restructuring time and meeting structures to create additional opportunities for collegial work within the school day. This research paper is the second part of a three stage research design investigating South Australian teachers’ experiences of school-ba...

Generally, professional development initiatives focus mainly on enhancing teachers’ classroom practices. However, teaching practices without being cognizant of students’ culture and contexts rarely have an impact learning outcomes. With regard to language teaching, knowledge context is a pivotal factor in learners’ development. This paper reports study that explored how the Cambridge English Te...