The purpose of this study is to investigate the teacher change process and extend our understanding of how variability in the ways that primary school teachers in Bangladesh implement innovative pedagogical practices, such as active learning, reflects variations in their underst…
This study examines teachers' professional development through a field-based on-the-job training program. The Field-Based Teacher Development Program (FBTDP) of the Aga Khan Education Service (AKES), Pakistan provides a framework for this research The program, first introduced i…
Multicultural students have disproportionately underachieved in school, unchecked by traditional partnership school fieldwork experiences preparing future teachers. Teachers' development of multicultural competence is imperative for reversing achievement trends. Culturally respo…
Teacher supervision is closely related to teachers‘ professional development and effective teaching as well as students‘ learning. This study is grounded in critical/feminist theory. It offers a rhetorical analysis of the phenomenon of teacher inspection and the role of liberato…
Pre-service and in-service teacher education programs are designed to disseminate large quantities of knowledge in a short period of time (Deng, 2004). However, they have been found to be ineffective with implementing teacher change (Deng, 2004). To increase the level of effecti…
The purpose of this study is to explore and describe supervisory conferences as a means of EFL teacher development within the Indonesian non-formal sector of education. The study examined teacher development at both the pre-service and in-service stages. To capture the general p…
The purpose of the study is to examine how professional growth is sustained over time through exploring a teacher’s narrative of personal and professional growth. The central question of this dissertation is: What creates sustainable and continuous positive professional change a…