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TEACHING AND TEACHER EDUCATION
Volume 24, Issue 2, Pages 377-386Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2007.03.002
Keywords
professional development; on-the-job training; teacher job satisfaction; teacher attitudes; survey research
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Literature has shown that on-the-job professional development programs are most beneficial when they are long-term, focused on students' learning, and linked to the curricula. We hypothesized that the higher the control teachers have over job professional development processes, and the greater the resemblance of these processes to the typical teaching culture in classrooms, the greater the teachers' satisfaction with job professional development processes. The findings of this study demonstrate that the main factors affecting teachers' satisfaction with the instructional programs are related to their desire to maintain instructional processes close to home, and to shape these processes in accordance with their needs and expectations. The implications of the study are discussed with relation to decision-makers in the school setting and at the local authorities' level. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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