Coherence: Policymakers, Districts and Schools’ Perspectives of Teachers’ Professional Development

Figures & data

Table 1. The participants, segmented to sectors according to the maximal differentiation sampling.

	Schools	Districts	Policymakers
Total participants (29 participants)	Five principals	Six district professional development superintendents	Current head of Unit A
	Six teachers	Six heads of city centers for professional development	Four national superintendents
			One head of innovative education center
Distribution of unique attributes according to the diverse sampling
Peripheral	A teacher from a city near the northern borderA teacher from a town near the south-eastern border	Northern district superintendentSouthern district superintendent
Arab	Two teachers	One head of a city center for professional development
Ultra-orthodox Jewish	One principal	One head of a city center for professional development	One national superintendent

Figure 1. Percentage of each sub-group’s perspectives in the interviews, regarding the factors that stimulate or hinder professional development processes.

Figure 2. Percentage of each sub-group’s perspectives expressions in the interviews, regarding the principal role in teacher’s professional development.