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Beatty, Alexandra; Ferreras, Ana – National Academies Press, 2018
For the past 17 years, the U.S. National Commission on Mathematics Instruction (USNC/MI) has held workshops with mathematics educators from countries that typically perform well on international assessments and have a history of strong mathematics education programs, such as Japan, China, and South Korea. Finland is among this group. Even though…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Mathematics Teachers, Conferences (Gatherings)
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Brien, Emma O.; Hamburg, Ileana – Higher Education Studies, 2014
In order to remain successful and competitive in business today it is important that SMEs can sustain themselves by adapting to economic changes. SMEs have a distinct advantage over large companies in that they have less bureaucracy and hierarchical restrictions and can implement changes quickly. However often they are slow to change their way of…
Descriptors: Mentors, Sustainability, Small Businesses, Training Methods
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Chieu, Vu Minh; Kosko, Karl W.; Herbst, Patricio G. – Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
It has been common to use video records of instruction in teacher professional development, but participants have rarely been encouraged to evaluate teachers and students' actions in those records, allegedly because evaluation deters from the development of a professional discourse. In this study, we inspected teachers' online discussions of…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Protocol Analysis, Protocol Materials, Discourse Analysis
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Shannon, Darbianne; Snyder, Patricia; McLaughlin, Tara – Professional Development in Education, 2015
Implementation science defines training and coaching as two important competency components to support fidelity of implementation of evidence-based practices. The present study explores the perspectives of 21 preschool teachers, located in the United States, about the professional development (PD) they received, which included training and…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Web Based Instruction, Coaching (Performance), Expertise
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Shannon, Darbianne; Snyder, Patricia; McLaughlin, Tara – Grantee Submission, 2015
Implementation science defines training and coaching as two important competency components to support fidelity of implementation of evidence-based practices. The present study explores the perspectives of 21 preschool teachers, located in the United States, about the professional development (PD) they received, which included training and…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Web Based Instruction, Coaching (Performance), Expertise
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McKay, Elspeth; Vilela, Cenie – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2011
The purpose of this paper is to outline government online training practice. We searched individual research domains of the human-dimensions of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), information and communications technologies (ICT) and instructional design for evidence of either corporate sector or government training practices. We overlapped these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Web Based Instruction, Online Courses, Electronic Learning