Research project
Towards a comprehensive understanding of (facilitating) teacher professional development
What are ‘missing links’ in research on teacher professional development trajectories? We focus on the role and development of teacher facilitators in designing and implementing (collaborative) professional development trajectories.
- Duration
- 2014 - 2017
This research addresses some ‘missing links’ in the extensive domain of literature on teacher professional development.
Teacher facilitators
Currently we focus on the role and development of teacher facilitators’ knowledge and behavior in how professional development trajectories are created and implemented. We argue that differences in their expertise (development) will result in different learning opportunities for participating teachers.
Observations of meetings with (student) teachers and questionnaires will be administered to map their expertise (development).
Teacher interaction
A second focus of our research concerns a fine grained analysis of teacher interaction during team meetings and what can be learned from that for optimizing teacher collaborative learning.
Observations of team meetings and retrospective interviews are used for this analysis.
Professional agency
A third focus is teacher professional agency. In a consortium together with researchers from the Radboud University and Utrecht University, teacher professional agency is studied in various contexts. At ICLON the project focusses on student teachers in innovative teacher education programmes, such as Eerst de Klas and Onderwijs Traineeship.
Website (in Dutch): www.professioneleruimte.info
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