Schools are dynamic environments in which the needs of students and educators are constantly shifting. As such, it is the responsibility of school organizations to foster collaborative learning environments that encourage self-reflective practice. Peer observation is a valuable approach to professional development that allows for continuous…

The study was a descriptive survey which sought to assess how Junior High School teachers in the Kwadaso Municipality in Ghana reflect on their practices in the classroom. The target population for the study was teachers in public Junior High Schools. Convenience sampling procedure was used to select 72 teachers. Questionnaire was used for data…

Teachers in high-poverty middle schools need additional supports from administrators to build collective teacher efficacy. Supportive leadership is the driving force in leading collective teacher efficacy in high-poverty middle schools. A qualitative, instrumental case study was utilized to explore how teachers perceive administrative supports…

Teachers who know what, how and why to teach are essential for successful student learning. However, many preservice teachers (PSTs) lack teaching experience and the ability to integrate theory and practice. To help bridge this gap, this study employed a learning-by-design project approach in which 22 Korean PSTs developed lesson plans for middle…

This study aims to explore the effective teaching methodologies of teachers to improve the teaching of students with different needs. In this study, 12 teachers who were teaching 7th and 8th grades in their schools were interviewed. These teachers were from six private schools and in each school two teachers were taken as a sample. A qualitative…

In classrooms that implement student-driven, collaborative knowledge building, there is a lot for teachers to attend to in student work, alongside numerous ways of interpreting and responding to what is noticed, giving rise to countless possibilities of furthering students' inquiry and discourse. The current study aims to make sense of these…

This study was prompted by a desire to understand the relationship between reflective practice using classroom instructional video observations and teacher perception of effectiveness. This was a mixed methods study in which quantitative data were collected from a pre- and post-survey using a Likert scale and qualitative data from weekly pre- and…

This study aims to explore the nature of prospective middle school mathematics teachers' questioning processes by identifying their purposes and underlying reasoning. Data were collected from seven lesson plans and semi-structured individual or group interviews with ten prospective teachers. Findings show that candidates planned to ask questions…

This quantitative study was conducted to examine if teacher reflective practices had an impact on student engagement, teacher-student relationships, and student engagement. Survey data were collected from 356 middle school teachers and students. Data concluded no significant relationships among the reflective practices of teachers, student…

This research explored an intersectional pedagogy framework through a yearlong inquiry as a 6th grade English teacher in a charter school for racially and economically marginalized and first-generation students. My study revealed that an intersectional(ity) pedagogy means doing soul work which involves an analysis of self and society toward…

This study explores how seven middle and secondary teachers understood and developed ambitious pedagogies within the context of their own classroom. Although there has been an emphasis on preparing preservice teachers for utilizing ambitious pedagogies, these practices are often not observed in practicing teachers' classrooms. The purpose of this…

The purpose of this self-study was to investigate the implementation of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) in the music classroom without a district-level music administrator. With two guiding research questions, the study involved using culturally responsive music education and a community of practice to implement DEIB music…

This qualitative case study of four middle school and secondary school mathematics teachers examines how teachers' reflective practice supported their selection of strategies that align with the needs of current mathematics education according to the 10 dimensions of mathematics education. The findings suggest that teachers' reflection practice,…

The manner in which perceived principal distributed leadership affects teachers' professional agency remains ambiguous in Oman. The study aimed to explore the effect of distributed leadership on teacher agency through teacher reflection. In the cross-sectional study, survey data were gathered from 1095 teachers in 58 middle and secondary schools…

We present an empirically based model for modeling the quality of pre-service teacher reflection. Conversations from twelve groups of a total of 47 pre-service teachers were video recorded and transcribed verbatim. First, we analyzed their conversations through practical epistemology analysis and an operationalization of Dewey's definition of…