Overview
- Offers a seminal contribution to current knowledge and theory by integrating research on teacher effectiveness and professional development for the first time
- Distinctively refers to teacher factors that emerged from the different main approaches to effective teaching instead of focusing on only one
- Provides both sound theoretical background and suggestions for practice on effective teacher training and professional development programmes
- Presents valuable suggestions on how further research can be conducted to expand this approach
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Research on Teacher Training and Professional Development
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Front Matter
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RESEARCH ON TEACHER TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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Main Foundations of Research on Teacher Effectiveness
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MAIN FOUNDATIONS OF RESEARCH ON TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS
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Combining Teacher Effectiveness Research with Research on Teacher Training and Professional Development
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COMBINING TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH WITH RESEARCH ON TEACHER TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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Back Matter
Keywords
- competences
- competency-based approach to teacher training
- constructivism
- critical reflection
- direct teaching
- dynamic approach to teacher training
- dynamic model
- educational effectiveness research
- evaluation of teacher training
- learning and instruction
- learning to teach
- mastery learning
- policy and practice
- professional development programmes
- quality of teaching
- student learning
- teacher behaviour
- teacher development
- teacher developmental stages
- teacher education
- teacher effectiveness
- teacher effectiveness research
- teacher factors
- teacher training and professional development
- teaching and learning
- teaching practices
- teaching skills
About this book
This book makes a major contribution to knowledge and theory by drawing implications of teacher effectiveness research for the field of teacher training and professional development. The first part of the book provides a critical review of research on teacher training and professional development and illustrates the limitations of the main approaches to teacher development such as the competence-based and the holistic approach. A dynamic perspective to policy and practice in teacher training and professional development is advocated. The second part of the book provides a critical review of research on teacher effectiveness. The main phases of this field of research are analysed. It is pointed out that teacher factors are presented as being in opposition to one another. An integrated approach in defining quality of teaching is adopted. The importance of taking into account findings of studies investigating differential teacher effectiveness is argued. Another significant limitation of this field of research is that the whole process of searching for teacher effectiveness factor was not able to have a significant impact upon teacher training and professional development. For this reason it is advocated that teacher training and professional development should be focused on how to address grouping of specific teacher factors associated with student learning and on how to help teachers improve their teaching skills by moving from using skills associated with direct teaching only to more advanced skills concerned with new teaching approaches and differentiation of teaching. The book refers to studies conducted in different countries illustrating how the proposed approach can be used by policy and practice in teacher education. Specifically, the book provides evidence supporting the validity of the theoretical framework upon which this approach is based. Moreover, experimental and longitudinal studies supporting the use of this approach for improvementpurposes are presented and suggestions for further research utilising and expanding the Dynamic Approach for teacher training and professional development are provided.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Teacher Professional Development for Improving Quality of Teaching
Authors: Bert Creemers, Leonidas Kyriakides, Panayiotis Antoniou
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5207-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5206-1Published: 06 November 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9541-9Published: 14 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5207-8Published: 05 November 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 262
Topics: Teaching and Teacher Education, Learning & Instruction, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Administration, Organization and Leadership