This teaching case study explores how two school administrators support whole-school performance improvement through professional development (PD). Wilson Elementary School has seen significant academic growth as measured by state assessments. The administrators attribute these improvements to the PD structures they have implemented which focus…

Grounded in real-world examples and more than 30 years of research in professional development, the fifth edition of "The Reflective Educator's Guide to Practitioner Inquiry" addresses how inquiry fosters curiosity, reflection, and practical action to enhance effective classroom learning. This latest edition invites educators to view…

The global twenty-first century (21C) skills agenda has become a common feature in the educational policy of many countries. However, teachers can face operational, definitional and systemic barriers to the integration of 21C skills in practice. The operational barriers include insufficient teacher capacity, which in turn is influenced by…

One of the primary goals of universities is to foster students' professional development and boost their employability. Social media platforms have become integral in today's digital age, causing disruptions in health, education and sport. University educators have integrated these platforms into classrooms to create online and hybrid teaching…

Background/purpose: This study aims to analyze emerging trends in Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) for natural sciences over the last 17 years. The research identifies key thematic areas and examines their contribution to teacher training and pedagogical innovation through the suvidagogical model. Materials/methods: A systematic review was…

For graduate students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), research writing is an essential skill, yet many struggle to produce work of sufficient quality. This critical review examines the instructional approaches to graduate research-writing for STEM majors, as outlined in published journal manuscripts. A total of 29…

This article explores the role of Philosophy for Children (P4C) pedagogy in higher education tutors' facilitation of discussion-based learning (DBL). To reflect on their use of P4C, six teacher education tutors who taught on a first-year professional learning module took part in a professional development activity. Questionnaire and group…

An extensive body of literature explores the impacts of teaching professional development (TPD) on graduate students in the STEM disciplines. However, these TPD interventions are often extremely diverse and highly contextual. The purpose of this meta-analysis was to synthesize what is known about the impacts of TPD on select instructional outcomes…

While there is broad agreement about their importance, courses in professionalism have proven difficult to teach and assess. Furthermore, there is currently a lack of knowledge regarding problems that are common across professional boundaries. The purpose of this article is to examine what teaching and assessing professionalism in higher education…

Reflective practice enables teachers to examine their personal and professional actions and learn from their lived experiences. The study explores teachers' conceptualizations of reflective practice, its applications, challenges, and opportunities for being and becoming professionals. The overarching research question guides this article--how do…

The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) is a systematic and evidence-based approach to examining teaching and improving learning that is openly shared. In the summer and fall of 2024, the National Academies Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education held a public workshop series exploring current and future applications of…

Modernism and postmodernism are two opposed approaches that are directly related to how each human mind sees and perceives the world and how to make it better. In the Greek educational system, in both primary and secondary education, an effort is made to general restructure the curriculum by promoting the use of new teaching methods in the…

The aim of this explorative comparative study is to explore how bachelor students are socialized into the instructional method of role-playing in simulation-based professional education programmes. Despite the widespread use of role-play in professional education programmes, there are a limited number of studies on the topic, even though the…

Science teachers struggle to implement and sustain new curricular ideas from professional development (PD) experiences. These PD opportunities are crucial for enacting real-world changes to teaching practice and address pressing global challenges, such as the teaching and learning of socioscientific topics nested in school communities.…

Led by artificial intelligence (AI), digital technologies are acting as a lever for significant change in higher education. Innovative formats such as macrolearning, the concatenation of a significant number of microlearning units, are consequently emerging. The purpose of this paper is to explore students' preferences for macrolearning programmes…