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Direct linkEmma Refvem; M. Gail Jones – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2025
Instructional coaching has emerged as a promising form of professional development for teachers. However, little is known about the background, contexts, professional responsibilities, and beliefs of instructional coaches who work with science teachers. This mixed-methods study focused on instructional coaches in secondary schools across the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Faculty Development, Coaching (Performance), Educational Change
Katherine L. McNeill; Renee Affolter – Learning Professional, 2024
Curriculum-based professional learning is not just having teachers read curriculum materials, but rather includes carefully crafted experiences to support their sensemaking, deep understanding of the curriculum and its pedagogy, and ability to transfer that knowledge into practice. This instructional model requires that teachers be responsive to…
Descriptors: Expertise, Educational Quality, Faculty Development, Curriculum Implementation
Soovendran Varadarajan; Joyce Hwee Ling Koh; Ben Kei Daniel – Distance Education, 2025
Micro-credentials (MCs) are gaining traction in higher education, aligning with Open, Flexible, and Distance Learning (OFDL) ideals. Despite the growing interest, their full impact on academia is still being debated. This highlights the need for research into the institutional factors essential for integrating MCs successfully, particularly as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Microcredentials, College Faculty, Researchers
Compton, Martin; Gilmour, Alison – International Journal for Academic Development, 2022
This reflection centres on how existing tensions in academic development work were magnified and challenged as competing imperatives sought to (re)define the roles of academic developers at a UK university during the pandemic in 2020. In a situation of heightened anxiety amongst all stakeholders, issues relating to professional agency, expertise,…
Descriptors: Altruism, Teaching Methods, Expertise, Foreign Countries
Download full textSarah Davies – Design and Technology Education, 2023
The design and technology curriculum in England has gone through various policy changes since its introduction in the Education Reform Act of 1988. The 2014 policy revised the content to make it slimmer and outlining the essential core knowledge for Key Stage 1 to 3. Schools need to consider wider aspects of design and technology not included in…
Descriptors: Specialists, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Evaluation Methods
Rumiantsev, Tamara W.; Admiraal, Wilfried F.; van der Rijst, Roeland M. – British Journal of Music Education, 2020
Musicians nowadays need to be able to work both creatively and collaboratively, often in a wider range of artistic, social and cultural contexts. A strong vision on conservatoire pedagogy is needed to reach this goal and at the same time align with the demands of higher education. At the start of the 21st century, renewal of curricula concentrated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Musicians, Music Teachers
Linda Amrane-Cooper, Editor; David Baume, Editor; Stephen Brown, Editor; Stylianos Hatzipanagos, Editor; Philip Powell, Editor; Sarah Sherman, Editor; Alan Tait, Editor – UCL Press, 2023
Learning at a distance and learning online are growing in scale and importance in higher education, presenting opportunities for large scale, inclusive, flexible and engaging learning. These modes of learning swept the world in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The many challenges of providing effective education online and remotely have been…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Online Courses, Pandemics, COVID-19
Downey, Dennis J.; O'Connor, Lindsey Trimble; Abell, Leslie; Armanino, Daniel; Jepson, Mark; Kadakal, Reha; Nam, Sunghee; Sánchez, Luis; Sowers, Elizabeth – Teaching Sociology, 2019
The American Sociological Association has produced a wide range of reports and materials addressing curricular best practices. Collectively, those materials are an invaluable resource for guiding revisions of the sociology major, but they do not address processes for implementing such revisions. In this conversation piece, we describe the steps by…
Descriptors: Sociology, Curriculum Design, Educational Change, Outcomes of Education
Owens, Melinda T.; Trujillo, Gloriana; Seidel, Shannon B.; Harrison, Colin D.; Farrar, Katherine M.; Benton, Hilary P.; Blair, J. R.; Boyer, Katharyn E.; Breckler, Jennifer L.; Burrus, Laura W.; Byrd, Dana T.; Caporale, Natalia; Carpenter, Edward J.; Chan, Yee-Hung M.; Chen, Joseph C.; Chen, Lily; Chen, Linda H.; Chu, Diana S.; Cochlan, William P.; Crook, Robyn J.; Crow, Karen D.; de la Torre, José R.; Denetclaw, Wilfred F.; Dowdy, Lynne M.; Franklin, Darleen; Fuse, Megumi; Goldman, Michael A.; Govindan, Brinda; Green, Michael; Harris, Holly E.; He, Zheng-Hui; Ingalls, Stephen B.; Ingmire, Peter; Johnson, Amber R. B.; Knight, Jonathan D.; LeBuhn, Gretchen; Light, Terrye L.; Low, Candace; Lund, Lance; Márquez-Magaña, Leticia M.; Miller-Sims, Vanessa C.; Moffatt, Christopher A.; Murdock, Heather; Nusse, Gloria L.; Parker, V. Thomas; Pasion, Sally G.; Patterson, Robert; Pennings, Pleuni S.; Ramirez, Julio C.; Ramirez, Robert M.; Riggs, Blake; Rohlfs, Rori V.; Romeo, Joseph M.; Rothman, Barry S.; Roy, Scott W.; Russo-Tait, Tatiane; Sehgal, Ravinder N. M.; Simonin, Kevin A.; Spicer, Greg S.; Stillman, Jonathon H.; Swei, Andrea; Timpe, Leslie C.; Vredenburg, Vance T.; Weinstein, Steven L.; Zink, Andrew G.; Kelley, Loretta A.; Domingo, Carmen R.; Tanner, Kimberly D. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2018
Many efforts to improve science teaching in higher education focus on a few faculty members at an institution at a time, with limited published evidence on attempts to engage faculty across entire departments. We created a long-term, department-wide collaborative professional development program, Biology Faculty Explorations in Scientific Teaching…
Descriptors: Biology, College Science, Science Instruction, Faculty Development
Taylor Huber, Mary – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2019
From 1981 to 2015, the US Professors of the Year program recognized 101 college and university teachers as national winners in its annual competition for faculty who demonstrated "extraordinary dedication to undergraduate teaching." Their dossiers provide a window onto the leading edge of teaching and educational leadership over a…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Educational History, Competition, Undergraduate Students
Miller, Andrew; Wyttenbach, Melodie; Nuzzi, Ronald James – Journal of Catholic Education, 2020
The management of multiple dilemmas became a norm overnight for Catholic school superintendents navigating the COVID-19 pandemic as they quickly moved to making decisions that would have long-term effects on the system of schools they led. This paper attempts to make sense of the new educational dilemmas that have confronted Catholic school…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Catholic Schools, Superintendents
Baaoum, Mohammed – International Journal of Modern Education Studies, 2018
The goal of the paper is to provide guidelines for building a comprehensive model that fosters humanitarian engineering education. The paper brings the voice of field practitioners and students, in addition to academic research, to determine the most critical attitudes, skills, and capacity building practice for empowering humanitarian engineers.…
Descriptors: Humanization, Engineering Education, Capacity Building, Educational Change
Tröhler, Daniel – Educational Governance Research, 2018
Taking the example of the current educational reforms, that is, the harmonization of the Swiss education systems, this chapter engages with the paradoxical character of modern education policy that believes it enhances its agency by referring to the unshakeable basis of their policy, the "crystal-clear" facts or "data,"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Secondary School Students
Dancy, Melissa; Lau, Alexandra C.; Rundquist, Andy; Henderson, Charles – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2019
Many physics faculty are aware of and interested in using research-based instructional strategies. However, knowledge and motivation are not sufficient to support successful and sustained adoption. To address this problem, we present a faculty online learning community (FOLC) model for educational change and describe its application (the New…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Teaching Methods, Communities of Practice, Teacher Workshops
Hubbell, Elizabeth Ross; Goodwin, Bryan – McREL International, 2019
An instructional model can unite school leaders, teachers, and students with shared goals, a shared understanding of how to reach the goals, and a shared vocabulary for discussing progress. In this paper, the authors present an introduction to instructional models and a leadership primer focused on helping school teams cohere around an initiative…
Descriptors: Teaching Models, Educational Change, Resistance to Change, Program Implementation
