My thesis presents a comparison of English and Turkish Early Years/Kindergarten teachers’ understandings and practices of outdoor activities. Comparative research provides a wider understanding of the two different cultures’ current circumstances in outdoor activities. Such rese…
The 1980s saw an increase in learning support assistants (LSAs’) in colleges for further education to support post-sixteen learners with learning difficulties and disabilities (LDD). LSAs’ were appointed on an ad hoc basis with little or no experience, or relevant qualifications…
This study presents a new perspective on work practice in conceptual art. Using ethnographic evidence from five visual artists, the study used a combined visual arts and practice orientated perspective to explore the materiality of their everyday work and the sociomaterial pract…
The purpose of this qualitative study was to gain an understanding of how instructional coaches as teacher leaders impact teacher practice and effectiveness in the classroom. This research provided data for educators seeking to discover specificity in teacher leadership, embedde…
This research aims to better understand the relationship between professional learning (PL) in genre-based literacy teaching and its impact on classroom practice. It is a study of teacher uptake of new knowledge about language and pedagogy based on Reading to Learn professional …
Thomas Edison Charter School (TECS) is a K-8 public charter school in Wilmington, Delaware. The school serves over 700 students in kindergarten through eighth grade. TECS has a history of low student achievement and variability in teacher experience and quality of classroom inst…