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Syracuse University

2019

Teaching

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Mentor Teaching In Four Communities Of Catholic Sisters In The Mid-Twentieth Century (1940-1965), Melanie Nappa-Carroll May 2019

Mentor Teaching In Four Communities Of Catholic Sisters In The Mid-Twentieth Century (1940-1965), Melanie Nappa-Carroll

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This dissertation is a qualitative study that explores mentoring experiences of Catholic teaching nuns– hereafter called sisters and/or women religious– who served in parochial schools in the mid-twentieth century in the Diocese of Syracuse, NY. Teaching sisters comprised the majority of the professional workforce in Catholic schools through ministry as classroom teachers, building principals, diocesan-level administrators, service providers, and more. The purpose of this qualitative study was to develop an understanding of how teaching sisters engaged in mentoring to develop instructional and pedagogical skills in the mid-twentieth century, specifically 1940 through 1965.

In addition to researching archival records, this study …


Quality Management Of Ceibal En Inglés, Gonzalo Negrón, Graham Stanley, David T. Lind Jan 2019

Quality Management Of Ceibal En Inglés, Gonzalo Negrón, Graham Stanley, David T. Lind

English Language Institute

A chapter in Innovations in Education Remote Teaching

This chapter examines the role of quality management in Ceibal en Inglés, which has grown in scope from the small-scale observations of teachers undertaken during the pilot phase of the project in 2012 (Banegas, 2013:181) into a complex quality management system, involving approximately 300 teachers, which is “coherent and comprehensive and the largest teacher observation, development and evaluation system the British Council has globally ... in which every remote teacher is observed and evaluated, as well as trained according to needs” (Knagg and Searle, 2016). The need for quality management in Ceibal …