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Professional development
About: Professional development is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 81108 publications have been published within this topic receiving 1316681 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report research on one effort to curb urban teacher attrition through a nontraditional approach to urban teacher education, induction, and ongoing professional development, and propose elements of preparation and support that may be efficacious in remedying "the revolving door" of urban schools.
Abstract: While the challenge to retain highly competent teachers affects all schools, the crisis is critical in urban districts, which historically suffer from a severe shortage of qualified teachers. This paper reports research on one effort to curb urban teacher attrition through a nontraditional approach to urban teacher education, induction, and ongoing professional development. It combines quantitative data about the five-year retention rates of teachers prepared specifically as "social justice" urban educators with qualitative data about the type of preparation and ongoing support the teachers experienced. Our analyses of these data allow us to propose elements of preparation and support that may be efficacious in remedying "the revolving door" of urban schools. This case study extends the broad literature on teacher retention while establishing groundwork for further investigations of urban teachers' learning and career paths. In conclusion, it helps reframe the professionalization of teaching debate to fit...
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TL;DR: Adaptive Teaching Competency as mentioned in this paper seeks to conceptualise the processes of tuning teaching to individual students' learning needs and empirically test, within the field of science teaching, to what extent adaptive teaching competency can be fostered through teacher education.
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TL;DR: Social workers had more overall education, more ethics education, and higher confidence and moral action scores, and were more likely to use ethics resources than nurses and social workers.
Abstract: Purpose/methods: This study investigated the relationship between ethics education and training, and the use and usefulness of ethics resources, confidence in moral decisions, and moral action/activism through a survey of practicing nurses and social workers from four United States (US) census regions. Findings: The sample (n = 1215) was primarily Caucasian (83%), female (85%), well educated (57% with a master's degree). no ethics education at all was reported by 14% of study participants (8% of social workers had no ethics education, versus 23% of nurses), and only 57% of participants had ethics education in their professional educational program. Those with both professional ethics education and in-service or continuing education were more confident in their moral judgments and more likely to use ethics resources and to take moral action. Social workers had more overall education, more ethics education, and higher confidence and moral action scores, and were more likely to use ethics resources than nurs...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the background and definitions of informal learning and applications to the global workplace and argue that informal learning plays a considerable role in developing professional expertise in the workplace and private life, yet no current theoretical model exists to balance conflicts between the role of individual and organizational benefits in a global context.
Abstract: Informal learning's roots emerged from educational philosophers John Dewey, Kurt Lewin and Mary Parker Follett to theorists Malcolm Knowles and other successive researchers. This paper explores the background and definitions of informal learning and applications to the global workplace. Informal learning's challenges are applied to developing global professional competence, including theory, practice and policy implications. The paper argues that informal learning plays a considerable role in developing professional expertise in the workplace and private life, yet believes no current theoretical model exists to balance conflicts between the role of individual and organizational benefits in a global context.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the sociological literature on interpersonally and institutionally generated gender roles and dynamics that make the construction and maintenance of mentoring relationships especially difficult for women in male-dominated fields.
Abstract: Improved mentoring of women graduate students and young faculty is one strategy for increasing the presence, retention and advancement of women scholars in engineering. We explore the sociological literature on interpersonally- and institutionallygenerated gender roles and dynamics that make the construction and maintenance of mentoring relationships especially difficult for women in male-dominated fields. In addition, we review nontraditional strategies including peer-, multiple- and collective mentorships that are likely to be more successful for most women (and many men). Finally, organizational change strategies designed to provide a more egalitarian and cooperative atmosphere in engineering programs and departments are presented. These ideas represent a social contract for a caring community more supportive of all members’ personal and professional growth and success.
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