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Stebick, Divonna; Hart, Jonathan; Glick, Lauren; Kindervatter, Jaime; Nagel, Jenna; Patrick, Cathy – Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research, 2023
Teachers seek and require meaningful professional development opportunities to truly grow in the profession. Teacher inquiry, or teacher research, is one way to accomplish professional development goals. Teacher inquiry is thought of as individualized, personalized, and meaningful professional development (Cochran-Smith & Lytle, 1999). In this…
Descriptors: Reflective Teaching, Inquiry, Faculty Development, Teacher Collaboration
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Jhagroo, Jyoti; Bansilal, Sarah; Stringer, Patricia – New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 2021
Practitioner inquiry has become part of the research tradition in many teacher professional development programmes across the world and allows teachers to conduct research into their own practices by engaging in systematic inquiry into their personal classroom practices. In this paper, we explore the inquiry reflections of two teachers that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Researchers, Inquiry, Reflective Teaching
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Betsy A. VanDeusen; Jeffrey Angera; Kristina E. Rouech; Allison K. Arnektrans; Mark Deschaine; Jennifer Majorana; Tim Otteman – Journal of Faculty Development, 2023
This article describes a reflective process, influenced by collaborative autoethnography and poetic inquiry, and provides an opportunity for replication at other sites. The process illuminated a workgroup's power to enhance professional lives in support of students, seeking to harness collective power to make space for critical discussions as well…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Ethnography, Poetry, Inquiry
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Gruver, John; Bowers, Janet – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2020
Teachers in professional development (PD) programs need time to adopt, enact and reflect on what they are learning in the PD within their own situations. To encourage reflective implementation and adaptation of ideas and practices promoted in the PD studied in this article, participants were asked to engage in several small action research…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Inquiry, Reflective Teaching, Teacher Researchers
Angela Plugge – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The professional learning experiences of K-12 educators are a critical and complex part of continuously improving teaching and learning within a school. This case study brings to light the experiences of three teams of middle school teachers participating in a professional learning model called instructional rounds. The purpose of this research is…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Middle School Teachers, Models, Teaching Methods
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Keay, Jeanne K.; Carse, Nicola; Jess, Mike – Professional Development in Education, 2019
This article explores how ideas from complexity and ecological thinking have the potential to act as a conceptual lens to help us better understand, design and support teachers' long-term professional learning. Using primary physical education (PPE) as a curriculum context, the challenges of contemporary professional learning, particularly within…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Physical Education Teachers, Reflective Teaching, Teaching Skills
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Buabeng, Isaac; Akuamoah-Boateng, Clara – World Journal of Education, 2019
Teaching as inquiry (TAI) is described as a component of effective pedagogy that has significant impact on learning outcome. Based on this premises, the study sought to examine TAI and its implications for teaching and learning in the Cape Coast Metropolis, Ghana. The descriptive survey design was adopted for the study and a sample of 160 basic…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Foreign Countries, Reflective Teaching, Student Needs
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Brown, Rachael Eriksen; Masloski, Kimberly – Mathematics Teacher Educator, 2018
This article shares the authors' use of written teaching replays as part of a professional development experience for beginning secondary mathematics teachers. This form of narrative writing is inspired by Horn's (2010) descriptions of teachers sharing their practice in professional learning communities. In this study, written teaching replays are…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Faculty Development
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Fortune, Nicholas; Keene, Karen – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2018
To reform instruction by moving towards student-centered approaches, research has shown that faculty benefit from support and collaboration (Henderson, Beach, & Finkelstein, 2011; Speer & Wagner, 2009). In this study, we examined the ways in which a mathematician's instruction unfolded during his participation in a faculty collaboration…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Instructional Improvement
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Adler, Idit; Zion, Michal; Rimerman-Shmueli, Esther – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2019
This study examined teachers' expressions of the dynamic characteristics of open inquiry, which emphasize the scientific, continuous, and flexible thinking and affective aspects associated with the inquiry process. Metacognitive prompts supported teachers' reflections as they engaged in an open inquiry process. Using both qualitative and…
Descriptors: Reflective Teaching, Cues, Metacognition, Active Learning
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Isik-Ercan, Zeynep; Perkins, Kelley – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2017
Drawing from sociocultural theories of learning and literature on reflection in educational contexts, this article describes reflective practices as a meaning-making and action engine to support early childhood education practitioners' professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions. We argue that the process of reflection requires a differential…
Descriptors: Reflective Teaching, Faculty Development, Early Childhood Education, Teacher Education
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Lee, Shu-Shing; Seow, Peter; Jang, Hari – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2020
Teacher learning is key for quality teaching and learning. Schools leverage situated teacher learning to develop teachers' capacities. However, situated teacher learning is ambiguous. How teachers learn is shaped by socio-cultural factors. This paper elaborates upon a case study of situated teacher learning in Singapore in which teachers learn in…
Descriptors: Social Influences, Cultural Influences, Student Centered Learning, Case Studies
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Lotter, Christine R.; Miller, Cory – Research in Science Education, 2017
In this paper, we explore middle school science teachers' learning of inquiry-based instructional strategies through reflection on practice teaching sessions during a summer enrichment program with middle level students. The reflection sessions were part of a larger year-long inquiry professional development program in which teachers learned…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Science Teachers, Inquiry, Teaching Methods
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Gutierez, Sally Baricaua – Issues in Educational Research, 2019
With the recent curriculum reform in basic education (elementary to senior high school) in the Philippines, developing the research capacity of teachers is seen as a key factor in enhancing their instructional practices. The professional development (PD) design which was the data source of this qualitative study was conceptualised to follow a…
Descriptors: Teacher Researchers, Faculty Development, College School Cooperation, Elementary School Teachers
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Hunter, Mary Ann; Emery, Sherridan – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
The Curious Schools project is a teacher professional learning initiative that aims to provide an insight into--and resource for--creativity in Tasmanian schools. It offers an alternative to conventional models of teacher professional learning by engaging teachers in multi-modal methods of documenting and reflecting on their work as the basis for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creativity, Faculty Development, Communities of Practice
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