Effects of Teacher Collaboration and Tandem Compositions on Pre-Service Teachers’ Professional Self-Concepts in Inclusive Education


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The present work investigates professional self-concept domains of pre-service teachers of the teaching degree programs 'Teaching at Elementary Schools' and 'Special Education' in two different studies. The first study investigates whether and to what extent pre-service teachers' professional self-concepts - with regard to planning and implementing inclusive education and cooperation with colleagues - can be fostered by a university-based learning unit on teacher cooperation in the inclusive classroom. In the second study, differences in the development of pre-service teachers' self-concepts are examined in relation to their type of tandem compositions (freely selected tandems vs. randomly assembled tandems) for the planning and implementation of inclusive lessons in elementary schools.










TALIS 2018 Results (Volume II) Teachers and School Leaders as Valued Professionals


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This report aims to provide an in-depth analysis of teachers’ and school leaders’ perceptions of the value of their profession, their work-related well-being and stress, and their satisfaction with their working conditions. It also offers a description of teachers’ and school leaders’ contractual arrangements, opportunities to engage in professional tasks such as collaborative teamwork, autonomous decision making, and leadership practices.







Educating Future Teachers: Innovative Perspectives in Professional Experience


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This book describes, problematises and theorises professional practice research in a range of Australian settings to provide evidence of robust, wide-ranging and contemporary approaches to professional experience in initial teacher education. It presents the latest research and evidence from those currently involved in innovative programmes designed to provide alternatives to meet local challenges during professional experience in teacher education. As the professional experience process is framed quite differently across Australian teacher education programmes, these cross-institutional accounts of collaboration, innovation and success make a major contribution to the field, both nationally and internationally. The book was developed from a research workshop funded by an Australian Association for Research in Education grant and organised by the Teacher Education Research and Innovation Special Interest Group.







Powerful Teacher Education


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Powerful Teacher Education describes the strategies, goals, content, and processes of seven highly successful and long-standing teacher education programs - Alverno College, Bank Street College, Trinity University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Southern Maine, University of Virginia, and Wheelock College. All these colleges and universities have succeeded in preparing teachers to teach diverse learners to achieve high levels of performance and understanding. In discussing the common features of these programs, Linda Darling-Hammond shows what outstanding teacher education models do and how they do it, and what their graduates accomplish as a result. Powerful Teacher Education also examines the policies, organizational features, resources, and relationships that have enabled these programs to succeed.