This study reports on EFL teachers' self-reported teaching practices aimed at stimulating students' language awareness. It investigates whether, and to what extent, awareness-raising practices are currently implemented in EFL secondary education in the Netherlands, how these practices can be characterised, …

This study explores a school leaders' perspective on teacher professional agency. Tensions may arise when teachers feel hindered in their professional agency and try to negotiate their 'space' with other stakeholders (colleagues, students, management). School leaders are expected to empower and support …

Developing and orchestrating classroom discourse about students' different solution methods is an essential yet complex task for mathematics teachers. This study reports on the first stages of classroom discourse development of one Dutch higher secondary school mathematics teacher who had no prior experience …

Teacher leadership is often connected to experienced teachers as it is assumed that a certain level of knowledge and experience is needed. Informal teacher leadership, however, can also be expected from beginning teachers. The aim of this study is to study beginning teachers? opportunities for enacting …

Lukt het om de schoonheid van het beroep van leraar weer zichtbaar te maken? Lukt het om vanuit het beroep een professioneel tegenwicht te bieden aan de eisen die de maatschappij stelt? En lukt het om leraren meer mogelijkheden te bieden om professioneel te groeien en hun rol te ontwikkelen? Mascha Enthoven, …

Marco Snoek is sinds 2003 als lector Leren & Innoveren verbonden aan de Hogeschool van Amsterdam. Binnen dat lectoraat houdt hij zich bezig met professionaliteit en leiderschap van leraren en lerarenopleiders. Vanuit die rol wil hij graag bijdragen aan het versterken van professionals in het onderwijs, …