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Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies

May 2011 Volume 27, Number 4

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Number of articles: 13

  1. Effects of coaching on teacher use of sociocultural instructional practices

    Annela Teemant, Joan Wink & Serena Tyra

    This study evaluates a performance-based instructional coaching model intended to improve teacher pedagogy and classroom organization for educating diverse student populations. Elementary teachers ... More

    pp. 683-693

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  2. Authentic and self-directed learning in vocational education: Challenges to vocational educators

    Elly de Bruijn & Yvonne Leeman

    This article analyses the dilemmas and practical tensions in implementing competence-based vocational education. Eleven case studies were conducted, including observation of lessons and interviews ... More

    pp. 694-702

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  3. High efficacy and the preservice reading teacher: A comparative study

    Heather Rogers Haverback & Susan J. Parault

    The purpose of this study was to investigate the differential impact of two field experiences, tutoring and observing, on preservice teachers’ reading self-efficacy and content knowledge.... More

    pp. 703-711

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  4. The tyranny of setting (ability grouping): Challenges to inclusion in Scottish primary schools

    Lorna Hamilton & Paul O’Hara

    Debate around the use of ability grouping in schools, resonates across national boundaries as concerns rise around the possible negative impact on young people, particularly those in already... More

    pp. 712-721

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  5. The relationship between departments as professional communities and student achievement in secondary schools

    Catalina Lomos, Roelande H. Hofman & Roel J. Bosker

    Secondary school teaching is organized in departments and effective departments functioning as collaborative teams have been associated with effective schools. Therefore, this study investigates... More

    pp. 722-731

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  6. Co-constructing efficacy: A “communities of practice” perspective on teachers’ efficacy beliefs

    Sola Takahashi

    Teachers’ efficacy beliefs are critical to improving student learning, but we have yet to fully understand how these beliefs develop. The prevailing model of teachers’ efficacy development emerges ... More

    pp. 732-741

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  7. Stakeholders’ perspectives of the nature and role of assessment during practicum

    Jeanne Maree Allen

    This paper focuses on the assessment of student teachers during practicum. The study is contextualised in an Australian pre-service teacher education program in which practicum has been... More

    pp. 742-750

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  8. Exploring literacy teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs: Potential sources at play

    Megan Tschannen-Moran & Denise Johnson

    This study explored the antecedents of self-efficacy beliefs for literacy instruction and the relationship of these beliefs to self-efficacy for teaching in general. Factor analysis demonstrated... More

    pp. 751-761

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  9. Understanding new teachers’ professional identities through metaphor

    Lynn Thomas & Catherine Beauchamp

    This qualitative study based on semi-structured interviews examines the metaphors new teachers use to describe their professional identities and compares metaphors chosen immediately following... More

    pp. 762-769

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  10. Resisting plateauing: Four veteran teachers’ stories

    Denise G. Meister & Patricia Ahrens

    This paper describes and interprets the career experiences of four veteran secondary teachers and their ability to resist plateauing. Three areas of veteran teacher research informed this study:... More

    pp. 770-778

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  11. Creating and facilitating a teacher education curriculum using preservice teachers’ autobiographical stories

    Deidre M. Le Fevre

    Preservice teachers’ autobiographical stories can serve as a personal, powerful, and poignant curriculum for teacher education. This research examines what and how preservice teachers learned... More

    pp. 779-787

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  12. Bedouin special-education teachers as agents of social change

    Efrat Kass & Erez C. Miller

    This study probes the career motives of minority special-education teachers in the Bedouin Arab society of southern Israel. The results, obtained via in-depth interviews of teachers, show that the ... More

    pp. 788-796

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  13. Understanding pedagogical design capacity through teachers’ narratives

    Elizabeth A. Davis, Carrie Beyer, Cory T. Forbes & Shawn Stevens

    Teachers need to develop the ability to adapt curriculum materials. Two elementary teachers, Maggie and Catie, were asked to write narratives about their use of and changes to particular reform... More

    pp. 797-810

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