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Direct linkCho, Vincent – Journal of Educational Administration, 2016
Purpose: Although there has been increasing optimism about the potential for social media platforms such as Twitter to support educators' professional learning, it is yet unclear whether such promises hold true. Accordingly, the purpose of this paper is to explore school administrators' use of Twitter for professional learning.…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Social Media, Mass Media Use, Semi Structured Interviews
Albers, Peggy; Pace, Christi L.; Odo, Dennis Murphy – Journal of Literacy Research, 2016
Digital technologies make possible new avenues for sharing and accessing literacy research and practices worldwide. Among the myriad of options available, web seminars have become popular online learning venues. The current investigation is part of Global Conversations in Literacy Research (GCLR), a longitudinal and qualitative study now in its…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Seminars, Computer Mediated Communication, Communities of Practice
Lochmiller, Chad R. – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2014
This article presents results from a study of leadership coaches who worked with novice principals in a university-based induction program for a 3-year period. The qualitative case study describes how the support the coaches provided to the novice principals changed over time. The study reveals that coaches adapted their leadership coaching…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Leadership Training, Beginning Principals, Novices
Bond, Nathan – Current Issues in Education, 2013
This action research study examined the development of a professional learning community (PLC) among 20 preservice secondary teachers as they met regularly during a semester-long, field-based education course to share artifacts of learning from their professional portfolios. The PLC model described by Hord and Tobia (2012) served as a framework…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Communities of Practice, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
Schechter, Chen – Teachers College Record, 2010
Background: Although the professional learning community as a means of improving student achievement has received growing support from researchers and practitioners alike, professionals are still exploring ways to develop interaction networks regarding teaching and learning issues. Purpose: This study explores the evolving stages of a collective…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Professional Development, Communities of Practice, Case Studies
Download full textGreen, Lena; Condy, Janet; Chigona, Agnes – South African Journal of Education, 2012
We argue that the "community of inquiry" approach, using reading materials modelled on Lipman's Philosophy for Children programme, is a theoretically justified and teacher-friendly means of promoting effective thinking skills. The stimulus materials, used by the pre-service teachers, consist of short stories of classroom life designed to…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Inquiry, Communities of Practice, Thinking Skills
Baecher, Laura; Rorimer, Sarah; Smith, Leonore – High School Journal, 2012
High school teachers today work in challenging, high-accountability instructional environments, striving to meet the needs of upwards of 100 learners per day. Rapidly growing numbers of English-language learners (ELLs) in U.S. classrooms have added to these pressures. Rather than using collaborative structures to face these challenges, the…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Second Language Learning, Active Learning, Secondary School Teachers
Masuda, Avis; Ebersole, Michele – New Educator, 2012
This article describes how a study group for beginning teachers, led by instructors from the teacher education program from which they had just graduated, supported the novice teachers' abilities to survive their induction year and the constraints of school practices influenced by high-stakes accountability policies. Findings demonstrate that the…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Beginning Teachers, Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction
Budak, Ayfer – Educational Research and Reviews, 2012
This study investigated how involving in a lesson study process at virtual settings impacted participating teachers' knowledge. The two elementary mathematics teachers, teaching in two public elementary schools at distant cities and meeting occasionally face to face and regularly at virtual settings formed the sample of this study. Neither of the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Faculty Development, Mathematics Teachers, Virtual Classrooms
Brancard, Ruth; Quinnwilliams, Jennifer – TESOL Journal, 2012
Teachers in a middle school and a high school with high percentages of English language learners showed evidence of transformative learning during the 2 years in which they collaborated in an ongoing professional development activity called "learning labs," which include focused discussion of observations of colleagues' classrooms.…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Learning Laboratories, Professional Development, English Language Learners
Tidwell, Deborah L.; Wymore, Lisa; Garza, Anel; Estrada, Maricruz; Smith, Howard L. – Studying Teacher Education, 2011
This article describes the use of self-study as a frame for professional learning that grew out of a professional development program for teachers examining their practice in a dual-language K-4 school. Located in the center of the rural state of Iowa, the school's development of a bilingual program for native speakers of both English and Spanish…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Native Speakers, Professional Development, Communities of Practice
Tammets, Kairit; Pata, Kai; Laanpere, Mart – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2013
The study proposes a way in which the learning and knowledge building (LKB) framework, which is consistent with the knowledge conversion phases proposed by Nonaka and Takeuchi, supports teachers' informal and self-directed workplace learning. An LKB framework in a socio-technical system was developed to support professional development in an…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Informal Education, Independent Study, Professional Development
Hollins, Etta R. – Teacher Education and Practice, 2009
Migration has shifted the world's population such that hardly a monocultural society still exists. These demographic changes have brought about changes in the strategies used to maintain national unity and in the distribution of benefits, goods, and services within the society. Providing equitable access to high-quality education has been among…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Communities of Practice, Educational Practices, Professional Development
