Client Analysis in Teacher Education: What Some Canadian and South African Teachers Identify as their Professional Development Needs

Teachers, Educational Change and Professional Development: Some Thoughts from a South African Experience

In the past decade, widespread educational changes were proposed for education at all levels of the system in South Africa. Educational reform has therefore become an inescapable part of the reality of teachers’ work. Initial implementation of the new curriculum for schools, guiding reform after the shift to democracy in 1994, was not easy for teachers and this was later revised and streamlined...

What teachers’ want: Identifying mathematics teachers’ professional learning needs

Assessing teacher education and professional development needs for the implementation of integrated approaches to STEM education

Background: Given the growing interest in, and relevance of, integrated approaches to STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education, there is an urgent desire to understand the challenges and obstacles to developing and implementing integrated STEM curricula and instruction. In this article, we present phase 1 of a two-phase needs assessment study to identify challenges and...

Policy Brief THE STATE ROLE IN TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION THROUGHOUT TEACHERS’ CAREERS

Professional development and teacher education policies have the potential to greatly affect teachers’ abilities to teach and, as a result, students’ abilities to learn. States can play varied roles in the provision of teacher education and professional development. This policy brief summarizes states’ policy approaches to teacher professional development and education throughout teachers’ care...

The perceptions of FE teachers about the impact of in-service initial teacher education on their professional development and practice

................................................................................ 3 List of Figures and Tables ........................................................ 9 Glossary of Abbreviations ........................................................ 10 Acknowledgements .................................................................. 11 Section 1 Gathering the Evidence – Background and Strat...