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  title info:
    title: How teachers of one school experienced concurrent changes
  name:
    name part: Trowbridge, Steven E.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1996
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 149 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
  abstract: The purpose of this inquiry was to examine how teachers
  abstract: articulated their experiences when they were confronted with
  abstract: multiple/simultaneous changes. Changes must be assimilated,
  abstract: rejected or modified by teachers to fit into their worlds of
  abstract: understanding. Teachers of one school were interviewed over
  abstract: the course of one school year during which several
  abstract: significant changes were taking place. Initial interviewees
  abstract: were selected through purposeful random sampling as key
  abstract: informants had yet to be identified. The interviews began
  abstract: with grand tour type questions, but became more focused as
  abstract: themes began to emerge from the data. Toward the end of the
  abstract: study, and even into the next school year, focus groups were
  abstract: utilized to confirm or disconfirm emergent themes. These
  abstract: groups usually took the form of interdisciplinary teams, but
  abstract: some were selected due to the content of the members'
  abstract: previous interviews. Themes emerged that challenge
  abstract: conventional notions of the change process. Two of these
  abstract: were the role of the principal and the influence of
  abstract: interdisciplinary academic teaming on the change process.
  abstract: Though the principal at the school studied did everything
  abstract: right, according to research on facilitating change, in the
  abstract: end he failed as a leader. It was not his methods, however
  abstract: that let him down, it was that the teachers just didn't like
  abstract: him. He offended some of them with his bravado and after
  abstract: that his obvious professional knowledge did him little good.
  abstract: Lack of likability overshadowed good works. The other theme
  abstract: that challenged conventional notions was the teaming of
  abstract: teachers at a time of change. Research on change had been
  abstract: done, primarily, with individual teachers. Steps that
  abstract: teachers go through while accommodating change had been well
  abstract: documented. These teachers, however, accommodated multiple
  abstract: changes, seemingly, with ease and facility. They said that
  abstract: the teaming let them do things faster, better, and with less
  abstract: stress. As further change in education seems inevitable,
  abstract: more research in this area could serve to inform
  abstract: administrators, school boards, and state boards of the value
  abstract: of teaming and mutual planning time for teachers.
  note: by Steven E. Trowbridge.
  note: Vita.
  note: "Major Subject: Curriculum and Instruction".
  note: Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilms Inc.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Ed.D. Texas A&M University 1996.
  subject:
    topic: Major curriculum and instruction
  identifier: 96-34698 UMI
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