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Teacher collegiality and collaboration in exemplary high school math departments
- Date Issued:
- 2005
- Summary:
- Research maintains that teacher collegiality and collaboration are important for developing professional learning communities, and promoting leadership of teaching and learning. As we enter the 21st century, subject departments in secondary schools remain a common and important entity in the professional life of a teacher, yet scarce in educational research literature. Using qualitative methodology, three exemplary, collegial, yet demographically diverse high school math departments in the state of Florida were involved in this multi-site case study. The researcher collected data from interviews, observations, and documents. Sixty-one math teachers including department chairs were individually interviewed. These interviews were transcribed and coded for commonalities. Observations were recorded during teacher planning hours, department meetings, and teacher lunch times. Also, pertinent documents such as course syllabi, department mission statements, school mission statements, and school improvement plans were collected. All data were triangulated and analyzed, and findings support that collegial relationships impact teachers' work lives, which reduce uncertainty and stress; collegial departments are tightly structured democratic systems where distributed leadership increases instructional effectiveness and creates a familial environment; collaborative cultures affect student learning by emphasizing a fair and equitable education for all students improving parental involvement; and the department chair as instructional and managerial leader plays a major role as a change agent within the professional collegial community.
Title: | Teacher collegiality and collaboration in exemplary high school math departments. |
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Name(s): |
Numeroff, Donna. Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor Acker-Hocevar, Michele A., Thesis advisor |
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Type of Resource: | text | |
Genre: | Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation | |
Issuance: | monographic | |
Date Issued: | 2005 | |
Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
Place of Publication: | Boca Raton, Fla. | |
Physical Form: | application/pdf | |
Extent: | 272 p. | |
Language(s): | English | |
Summary: | Research maintains that teacher collegiality and collaboration are important for developing professional learning communities, and promoting leadership of teaching and learning. As we enter the 21st century, subject departments in secondary schools remain a common and important entity in the professional life of a teacher, yet scarce in educational research literature. Using qualitative methodology, three exemplary, collegial, yet demographically diverse high school math departments in the state of Florida were involved in this multi-site case study. The researcher collected data from interviews, observations, and documents. Sixty-one math teachers including department chairs were individually interviewed. These interviews were transcribed and coded for commonalities. Observations were recorded during teacher planning hours, department meetings, and teacher lunch times. Also, pertinent documents such as course syllabi, department mission statements, school mission statements, and school improvement plans were collected. All data were triangulated and analyzed, and findings support that collegial relationships impact teachers' work lives, which reduce uncertainty and stress; collegial departments are tightly structured democratic systems where distributed leadership increases instructional effectiveness and creates a familial environment; collaborative cultures affect student learning by emphasizing a fair and equitable education for all students improving parental involvement; and the department chair as instructional and managerial leader plays a major role as a change agent within the professional collegial community. | |
Identifier: | 9780496965908 (isbn), 12128 (digitool), FADT12128 (IID), fau:9038 (fedora) | |
Collection: | FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection | |
Note(s): |
Thesis (Ed.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2005. College of Education |
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Subject(s): |
Teachers--Professional relationships Educational leadership--Case studies Classroom management--Florida--Case studies Mathematics--Study and teaching (Secondary) |
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Held by: | Florida Atlantic University Libraries | |
Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12128 | |
Sublocation: | Digital Library | |
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Host Institution: | FAU | |
Is Part of Series: | Florida Atlantic University Digital Library Collections. |