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Teacher Professional Development: Who Is The Learner?, Kirsten Petrie, Clive Mcgee
Teacher Professional Development: Who Is The Learner?, Kirsten Petrie, Clive Mcgee
Australian Journal of Teacher Education
One of the challenges in in-service teacher education is how teachers can be given professional development (PD) that enables them to respond to national curriculum and policy change. In recent years primary teachers in New Zealand have been inundated with Ministry of Education-funded professional development programmes to help them implement a plethora of curriculum policy and reform initiatives. This paper explores how the design and delivery of one PD programme, the Physical Activity Initiative (PAI), positioned and supported teachers as learners. An evaluation of the programme sought data from 25 teachers and 14 advisers to schools. The focus was the …