Let's lunch and learn: Professional knowledge sharing in teachers' lounges and other congregational spaces

Mawhinney, Lynnette

doi:10.1016/j.tate.2009.10.039

Cited by 57 publications

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“…Even during coffee breaks, teachers were engaged in educational discussions and comments on the training. This confirmed the findings of Mawhinney (2010) in his two-year ethnographic study conducted in the United States. He wrote that, even teachers' lounges that were often thought of as places that bred negativity were found to be places for professional knowledge sharing.…”

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Evaluation of Teachers for the 21st Century Training Project

Elannani¹

2013

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The United Arab Emirates has witnessed exponential growth while its schools have been lagging behind other areas of national development. Research studies attributed that to classroom practices that overemphasized theory and rote memorization. Education officials addressed this issue by setting up training programs about effective teaching techniques and strategies. The author participated in the Teachers for the 21st Century project and provided workshops to hundreds of public schools' teachers. To evaluate this teacher training project, the author followed a qualitative methodology using participant observation and data from documents, newspaper accounts, observation notes, and transcriptions of tape-recordings during the project. After each training session, the author tape recorded observations and noted participants' views and impressions. After the tapes were transcribed there emerged salient findings related to training content, trainers and translators, participants, training environment, and project management. The author found that an amalgam of organizational, professional, and cultural deficiencies had caused the three years' project to be discontinued after less than one year of its inception. Despite these shortcomings, teachers and trainers had benefitted from the training. However, these pressing issues must be seriously addressed in order to conduct sustainable professional development programs in the United Arab Emirates and Gulf region.

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Evaluation of Teachers for the 21st Century Training Project

Elannani¹

2013

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“…In the Do step, we utilized a "lunch and learn" method to introduce the synergy tool to the staff (Mawhinney 2010;Straka et al 2013). We also used lunch and learn sessions during the Do steps of subsequent monthly PDSA cycles to garner feedback from direct care nurses as we made adaptations to synergy-based patient assessment guidelines and nurse staffing guidelines.…”

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The Synergy Tool: Making Important Quality Gains within One Healthcare Organization

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Background: Evidence-based clinical care delivery begins with comprehensive assessments of patients' priority needs. A Canadian health sciences corporation conducted a quality improvement initiative to enhance clinical care delivery, beginning with one acute care site. A real-time staffing tool, the synergy tool, was used by direct care providers and leadership to design and implement patient-centered care delivery. The synergy tool is the patient characteristics component of the Synergy Model™, developed by an expert panel of nurses in the 1990s. Since then, the tool has been effectively used to assess a variety of patient populations on eight important characteristics, informing real-time staffing decisions. Methods: Plan-Do-Study Act cycles were managed by department-based project teams with assistance from business analytics and a quality/safety officer. Results: Initial findings demonstrate reductions in nurse missed breaks, improved workload management, and significant increases in staff engagement. Conclusions: The synergy tool is an easy-to-use tool that can be used to highlight priority care needs for individual patients or specific patient populations. The tool informs real-time staffing decisions, ensuring a better fit between patient needs and nurse staffing assignments. Although this initiative began with nurses, project work is expanding to include inter-professional teams.

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“…Öğretmen kültürü, deneyimli öğretmenler tarafından aktarılır ve öğretimdeki norm, değer ve davranışları belirler. Öğretmenlerin kültürel kalıpları genellikle öğretmeler odasındaki alt kültürlerle etkileşimler yoluyla şekillenmektedir (Mawhinney, 2010).…”

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