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Teacher motivation and teaching
University-school partnerships are important constellations for teachers’ professional learning. The present study investigates how both teacher characteristics and contextual factors are related to teachers’ motivation to participate in the university-school partnership, and the relationship between…
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Teachers’ professional learning preferences
How do secondary school teachers’ professional learning preferences relate to teaching experience and the school context?
- teacher education
- Teachers wanted
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Teachers' practical knowledge
Teaching reading comprehension in secondary education
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Student teachers’ commitment to teaching
What are relationships between student teachers’ personal characteristics, learning experiences and perception of external environmental aspects impacting teacher career and their commitment to teaching?
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Professional agency of beginning teachers
To what extent do beginning teachers use, create and claim agency at their school?
- teacher professional development
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World Teachers Programme
The World Teachers Programme (WTP) is a bilingual profile of the Initial Teacher Education programme geared towards bilingual and international education.
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Teacher Education Programmes
ICLON provides several programmes for second and first degree teaching qualifications.
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Student teachers’ practical knowledge, discipline strategies, and the teacher-class relationship
Social aspects of the learning environment, also called classroom climate, are important for students’ cognitive and affective learning outcomes. In this thesis the classroom climate is operationalised by means of two components: the teacher-class relationship and classroom discipline.
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Professional learning: what teachers want to learn
The aim of this thesis was to examine what teachers want to learn themselves. The main research question was: what, how and why teachers want to learn? And does this depend on their years of teaching experience and the school at which they work?
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Collaboration in groups during teacher education
Collaboration is increasingly common among teachers in schools. As such, teacher education should prepare prospective teachers to effectively interact with other teachers in different types of communities or groups.
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Student-teachers' commitment to teaching
The motivation of student teachers for the teacher's profession depends on various factors. Teacher training can influence the commitment of students.
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Teacher identity and teacher’s professional development in an intercultural context
The present project aims to provide valuable insights for the professional development of international teachers, and also for improving the quality of foreign language education.
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Developing science teachers’ knowledge and beliefs
The objective of this project is to understand the content and structure of science teachers’ knowledge and beliefs, and how these change in the context of pre-service teacher education and educational innovation.
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Formative Assessments and Teacher Professional Learning
How can formative assessment be used to promote teacher professional learning? This book contains various studies into professionalization approaches and courses in which formative assessment is used with a view to teacher learning.
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Peer feedback in teacher professional development
This dissertation set out to provide both an integrated framework for the practices of teacher peer feedback and an in-depth understanding of teacher peer feedback in the Chinese vocational education context.
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Teacher knowledge and lesson design
The studies reported in this thesis were situated in the context of an innovation of Dutch secondary school biology curricula. As in any innovation, the practical knowledge of teachers determine the outcomes through the decisions they make while planning and teaching their lessons. The aim of the studies…
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The development of (beginning) teachers
How can teachers best learn from each other and develop? Jacobiene Meirink is conducting research on professional development for teachers in secondary education. She is particularly interested in how teachers collaborate on and learn from the development of teaching programmes. More insight into effective…
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Teacher of the Year Award
Which teacher did an outstanding job in not only transferring knowledge in novel ways but also in getting students enthusiastic and connecting a course to current research themes? Meet the nominees for the Teacher of the Year Award 2023!
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mentoring match: Mentor teachers' practical knowledge about adaptive mentoring and individual differences between student teachers.
What practical knowledge do mentor teachers have of adaptive mentoring and of individual differences between student teachers?
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Towards an ecological approach to teacher professional development
The aim of this thesis was to develop and evaluate a Ecological Professional Development Model to support preservice biology teachers to direct their own subject-specific ecological professional development route.
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Professional learning communities for mentors of novice teachers
Professional learning communities are useful for professionalization but also for the development of induction programmes. In this project, we combine these two worlds into a professional learning communities in which mentors or novice teachers learn about mentoring and at the same time develop an induction…
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Teachers' teaching and learning motivation in China
The research project focuses on teachers’ learning motivation and learning performance in professional learning activities.
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Making educational innovations practical for teachers
How to make educational innovations practical for teachers
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Differentiated instruction in practice: a teacher perspective
Many teachers in secondary education take differences between pupils into account . PhD research by Saskia Stollman (ICLON) shows that they need room to experiment and the support of the school management
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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.
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Collaborative learning in teacher education: Intended, implemented and experienced curriculum
How is collaborative learning in teacher education designed and implemented? How do students experience those collaborative learning assignments? What aspects of the design and the implementation lead to which perceived learning outcomes?
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Individual teacher learning in a context of collaboration in teams
In this study we aimed to examine teacher learning within a context of collaboration in interdisciplinary teams.
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Bullying in India; the teachers’ role
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First Steps for Teachers and Facilities
Getting started with active learning & teaching can be as simple as assessing on what is already accomplished. Here are some practical courses of action to begin experimenting with active learning, whether you are a teacher or responsible for the spaces.
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Theory-enriched practical knowledge in mathematics teacher education
This study looks at the question of how and at what level students in primary teacher education can integrate theory and practice, and how the organisation of their learning environment, focusing especially on mathematics and pedagogy, can contribute to that.
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Teachers and students as partners in researching educational practice
How can collaborative participatory action research by student-teachers and their students enhance student participation, improve educational practices, and generate knowledge about these practices that can be used for improving teacher education as well?
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University teachers’ learning paths during technological innovation of education
To what extent are university teachers' individual learning paths influenced by their teaching experience, motivation, and conceptions of teaching and learning through educational technology?
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Teachers, loosen up! How teachers can trigger interpersonally cooperative behavior in students at risk of academic failure
Student cooperativeness underlies high quality teacher-student relationships, and has been positively associated with students’ school engagement. Fostering cooperative rather than oppositional student behavior might be especially helpful for protecting at-risk students against academic failure.
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The Teacher’s Invisible Hand: A Meta-Analysis of the Relevance of Teacher–Student Relationship Quality for Peer Relationships and the Contribution
Social relationships of students are important. Especially for students with problem behavior. How can a teacher support students in their social relationships via their own interactions with students? A lot, as is shown by a meta-analyses of Hinke Endedijk. She assessed almost 300 studies about teacher-student…
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The influence of induction programs on beginning teachers'well-being and professional development
This thesis reports on the influence of induction programs on beginning teachers’ well-being and professional development, and the essential characteristics of an induction program. These topics were explored by means of an interview study and large scale survey study.
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They understand what it takes: teacher agency in universities
When does teacher agency occur in the university context, and how is this related to teaching?
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Mapping and Fostering Teachers’ Sense of Agency in Inclusive Education
How can we map and foster Dutch secondary teachers’ agency in inclusive education practices?
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Teacher professional learning and collaboration in secondary schools
This dissertation focuses on teacher professional learning and collaboration in secondary schools.
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Bureaucratic Selection and Politics: Evidence from Teachers in Brazil
Does becoming a public sector employee change a person’s political beliefs, behaviors and interactions with the state? Do public teachers hold the same values as other professionals and the general Brazilian public?
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Science teachers' knowledge development in the context of educational innovation
The research reported in this thesis is concerned with the knowledge development of a small sample of experienced science teachers in the context of a broad innovation in Dutch secondary education, including the introduction of a new syllabus on Public Understanding of Science.
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Conceptualising and developing the practice of CLIL teachers
How do teachers conceptualise, develop and implement an effective CLIL practice?
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Intercultural identities of non-native teachers of English: an exploration in China and the Netherlands
Teachers of English as a foreign language in China and the Netherlands have different notions of themselves as teachers in relation to cultures associated with the English language.
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For high school students
We organise various activities for high school students and their physics teachers to learn about Astronomy at Leiden University.
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learning portfolio as a tool for stimulating reflection by student teachers
The topic of this study is the portfolio that is being used in a teacher education institute as an instrument for stimulating reflection on their development as teachers by student teachers.
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Jasper Maas
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
j.n.m.maas@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Eveline de Boer
ICLON
e.de.boer@iclon.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1748