... . Coaching Coaching cultures Reculturing Professional learning Distributed leadership This research explores how school leadership shapes coaching cultures, focusing on the ways leaders foster collaborative coaching practices in primary, secondary and special schools. As Creasy and Paterson...

... of policy expectations, the duality of their roles and the challenges they face, providing insights into how professional learning can address these issues. Design/methodology/approach Adopting a qualitative methodology, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 cooperating teachers (CTs), all...

... Communities of practice Complexity theory Faculty of education Professional learning Collaborative inquiry Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada 752-2023-2854 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000155 Becoming a teacher is a challenging and complex journey...

... research design, we collected data from 31 mentors and ECTs across two states in Australia engaged in professional learning focused on developing mentors’ and ECTs’ understanding of intellectual virtues as a resource for mentoring conversations. Data were generated from online professional learning...

...Tiffany L. Gallagher; Arlene Grierson; Catherine A. Susin Purpose This two-year study illuminates the experiences of technology coaches (digital learning coaches [DL] and science technology engineering and mathematics/literacy coaches [STEM/L]) as they engaged in their own professional learning...

... Project, a progressively scaled-up professional learning and development initiative designed to improve teacher knowledge and pedagogy. Originality/value This paper highlights the critical importance of coaches' knowledge and expertise, the complexity of the implementation process and the coherence...

... of assessment, the power dynamics between mentors and student teachers, and the school as an institutional site for professional learning. Originality/value The study’s originality lies in the inter-professional comparative analysis, which revealed a number of potentially contentious issues not immediately...

... 27 10 2018 24 11 2018 25 11 2018 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Teacher education New Zealand Coaching Mentoring and coaching in educational contexts for secondary education Professional learning Coach training...

... the emergency service hub of an ambulance trust (College of Paramedics, 2015), there is no nationally agreed framework to inform the work of paramedic mentors (Jones et al., 2012). The fact that those supporting students in their professional learning have been given a variety of names, for example...

...Rachel Shanks Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce this special issue focussing on the mentoring of beginning teachers which supports the professional learning of not only mentees but also mentors. The paper identifies the varied aims of beginning teacher mentoring programmes, some...

... and experiences of the partnership and professional learning therein. Analysis using an inductive and iterative approach pinpointed a number of emerging themes used to frame key elements of the findings. Findings Findings suggested that the partnership-based model promoted the professional learning...

..., as with knowledge-for-practice, it is not enough on its own. Mentoring in education Mentoring Professional development and mentoring Curriculum Inquiry Inquiry learning Mentor curriculum Professional learning In the twenty-first century there have been shifts in understandings...