Search results for: Professionals

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Unveiling Professional Learning: Shifting from the Delivery of Courses to an Understanding of the Processes
Authors: Gravani Maria N.
The article explores professional learning in a secondary teachers ' development program in Greece. The investigation reveals professional learning to be characterised by a number of dimensions: professionality, mutuality, emotionality and formality. Professional learning is therefore seen as a complex process rather than linear, a step-by-step event.
Published: 2007
Updated: Jul. 30, 2008
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Transitioning from Students to Professionals: Using a Writing Across The Curriculum Model to Scaffold Portfolio Development
Authors: Elliott Lori, Daily Nancy Lee, Fredricks Lori, Graham Meadow Sherrill
This qualitative action research study was designed to explore the effects of incorporating writing workshops built on Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) principles into the initial portfolio process required of students during their first semester in an undergraduate middle-grades teacher-education program. Findings indicate that the students approached the portfolio requirement from a consumer perspective and that writing anxiety was a major obstacle.
Published: 2008
Updated: Mar. 02, 2008