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David Stroupe; Lindsay Berk; Anna Kramer – Phi Delta Kappan, 2024
As people with power in schools, teachers and administrators make instructional decisions that shape opportunities in classrooms for students to learn. Educators' words and actions, especially related to the treatment of students and their ideas, are foundational for creating equitable learning communities in our classrooms and schools. David…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Classroom Environment, Social Justice, Teacher Student Relationship
Katrina Ramirez Gonzalez – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study documented an interdisciplinary team of grade 8 teachers' utilization and implementation of research-based reading strategies introduced through collaboration during a Professional Learning Community (PLC). This study also investigated the teachers' perspectives on the implementation of research-based strategies, including the factors…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Grade 8, Evidence Based Practice, Communities of Practice
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Yesifa Azovide; Yamina Bouchamma; Marc Basque – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2024
This study examines the impact of teachers' professional development on Canadian allophone students' learning and reading performance levels. We used the data from the Pan-Canadian Assessment Program 2016 involving Grade 8/Secondary II Canadian allophone students (N = 2,244) and teachers in French and English Language Arts (N = 598). Our…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Reading Achievement, English, French
Roderick Langston – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Despite recognized gains in student achievement in the United States, the achievement gap between economically disadvantaged students and non-economically disadvantaged students expands. Understanding the larger context of student learning is incumbent upon school leaders who must consider the impact of socioeconomic status, residency, and social…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Achievement Gap, Grade 8, Mathematics Teachers
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Volante, Paulo; Müller, Magdalena; Salinas, Alvaro; Cravens, Xiu – Research in Educational Administration & Leadership, 2023
This article shows the research results of implementing a professional learning model based on instructional leadership practices and structured teacher collaboration. The primary purpose was to promote a collaboration model focused on developing communities of practice, formed by school leaders and teachers, focusing on instructional improvement…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Communities of Practice, Instructional Improvement, Mathematics Education
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Bokhorst-Heng, Wendy D.; Marshall, Kelle L. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2021
This study explores the identities that Grade 8 early French immersion students construct as learners of French within school-based communities of practice. It suggests a model by which metaphors on language learning can be considered a form of narrative used to both elicit and analyze metacognitive representations of their socially situated…
Descriptors: French, Figurative Language, Identification (Psychology), Grade 8
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Jiang, Shiyan – Educational Technology & Society, 2023
The field of STEM education calls for a nuanced understanding of participation as participation measured by attendance provides limited information about student learning. This multiple case study contributes to a nuanced understanding of youth's participation trajectories in a multimodal composition project. In the project, fifth to eighth grade…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Student Participation, Grade 5, Grade 6
Brock, Tracy Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This research study was designed to examine the impact of the incorporation of vocabulary instruction and various teacher strategies by a middle school science teachers team on student science achievement. The researcher focused on the teacher preparation of vocabulary word walls and the inclusion of specific words within individual units of study…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Educational Practices, Middle School Teachers, Team Teaching
Jeanette Wahlstrom – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Teachers must meet a variety of students' mathematics learning needs but are often not trained to do so. Little is known about how teachers perceive their efficacy to meet diverse math learning needs. The purpose of this qualitative collective case study was to explore teacher attitudes and perceptions of professional development (PD) and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Christianity, Socialization
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Fejes, József Balázs – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2023
Achievement goal theory research, which investigates students' perceptions of the classroom climate, has mainly focused on teacher practices from a deductive perspective. However, this appears to hinder a fuller understanding of all the factors that influence students' perceptions of the classroom goal structures (CGS). Therefore, using a…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Goal Orientation, Mathematics Achievement, Grade 7
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Wati, Indra; Dayal, Hem Chand – Waikato Journal of Education, 2022
Lesson Study (LS) is a teaching improvement and knowledge-building process that has origins in Japanese elementary education. In Japanese LS, teachers work in small teams to plan, teach, observe, analyse and refine individual lessons called research lessons. This study examined a small sample of primary school teachers' perceptions of LS as a…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Grade 8, Mathematics Teachers, Faculty Development
Anne Marie Yarborough – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this two-phased, mixed-method action research study was to investigate the impact of a professional learning community's collective teacher efficacy and their practice of collective inquiry in closing the achievement gap of eighth-grade social studies English language learners. The research questions guiding this research: 1. How…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Teacher Collaboration, Teacher Effectiveness
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Eisenbach, Brooke – New Educator, 2021
There has been an increase in research regarding the use of virtual platforms as a means of collaboration between middle level learners and preservice teachers. However, little attention has been given to the role of asynchronous collaborations in the form of virtual literature discussions and the preservice teacher experience. Through a…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Middle School Students, Asynchronous Communication
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Lerner, Joshua – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2020
Recently a team of third- and fourth-grade teachers tested instructional ideas on the topic of division with remainders (DWR) using lesson study. The Common Core State Standards for Mathematics give little attention to the concept of the remainder, specifying only that students are to solve problems for which remainders must be interpreted (NGA…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Division, Mathematical Concepts
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Ronda, Erlina; Danipog, Dennis – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2022
Conceptualizing lesson study as an encounter at the boundaries of research and practice, this study examined teacher-academic collaboration for its potential to shape teacher research identity. We report here a case study of a school where the teachers have been able to present their lesson study works in conferences. Documents produced by the…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Faculty Development, Teacher Collaboration, Teacher Researchers
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