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Title: A Phenomenological Study: The Lived Experience of Teen Mothers Who Graduated From High School and Attended or Completed College
Author: Stroble, Christine
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Education, Teachers--Training of, Education and state
Description: The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to (1) explore the lived experience of teen mothers who graduated from high school and attended or completed college and (2) discover the school factors that contributed to their academic ...

Title: A Post-modern Teacher Educator: A Phenomenological Study of Teacher Educators with Significant Experiences in High-Needs, High-Minority Urban Schools
Author: Robinson, Derrick
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Teachers--Training of, Education
Description: Four decades of university-based teacher education reform has failed to yield favorable outcomes in teacher effectiveness in P-12 schools. A rising tide of reform and criticism from governmental agencies and neo-liberal reformers has resulted in o...

Title: Experiences and Perceptions of Professional Development Facilitators In a Job-Embedded School Initiative
Author: Mashariki, Kaia
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Education, Teachers--Training of, Adult education
Description: Recent legislation and accountability efforts in K-12 schools have increased the need to support and maintain high-quality teachers through enhanced professional development and teacher training efforts. As districts and schools seek new and innov...

Title: Experiencing the crux of agency and structure in urban education: On becoming a teacher educator
Author: Salyers, Bethany
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Education, Education, Higher, Teachers--Training of
Description: This research seeks to understand the experience of agency among those being prepared to be teacher educators and education scholars. It investigates how doctoral students negotiate their agency when they discover a difference between the promise ...

Title: How school leaders prioritize and allocate resources to improve teacher quality through teacher professional development: A multiple case study in suburban North Carolina
Author: Tyson, Deonte
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Education, Educational leadership, Teachers--Training of
Description: This multiple case study examined the methods by which school leaders determined and planned teacher professional development, as well as what teachers perceived as their professional development needs and how they believe school leaders take thos...

Title: Loving and Leaving the Classroom: Contextualizing the Attrition of Black Women Teachers From Urban Schools
Author: Lee, Shanique
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Education, Teachers--Training of, Education and state
Description: Since the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling against school segregation, Black women teachers (BWTs) have had perpetually high rates of attrition, despite their legacy of providing high quality, emancipatory education (Acosta, 2019; Carver-Th...

Title: Science as a critical method for deconstructing diversity discourse: Towards an anti-racist teacher education
Author: Ash, Alfred
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Education, Teachers--Training of, Curriculum planning
Description: This study is informed by an understanding of cultural incongruities in the classroom, and a critical postmodern science framework that recognizes the need for an interpretive and incisive approach for teaching about diversity issues in teacher ed...

Title: The Development and Use of a Coaching Observation Tool to Examine Coaching Behaviors
Author: Jolly, Ann
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Teachers--Training of, Education
Description: The field of education relies heavily on instructional coaches to build teacher capacity in the implementation of evidence-based practices (EBPs) with fidelity. Although observation tools are used to measure the fidelity of implementation by teach...

Title: The Perceptions of Pre-Service Teachers on a Program Rooted in Multicultural Service Learning: A Case Study
Author: Perrow, Adam
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Education, Educational leadership, Teachers--Training of
Description: In response to diversifying classrooms, teacher education programs have focused efforts on multicultural service learning and culturally responsive teaching as mechanisms for delivering an orientation towards equity. Social justice teacher educati...

Title: Through Students' Eyes: Using Photography to Explore At-Risk Middle Schoolers' Perceptions of Self and School
Author: Britt, Heather
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Middle school education, Education, Teachers--Training of
Description: ABSTRACTHEATHER M. BRITT. Visual ethnographic case study of school through the eyes of students using Photovoice, cameras, writing and agency artwork. (Under the direction of DR. JEANNEINE JONES)Everyone goes to school but everyone does not have t...