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Direct linkStephen D. Kroeger; Kathryn Doyle; Christina Carnahan; Andrew G. Benson – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2024
Microteaching is a way of doing professional development for teachers wanting to incorporate new evidence-based and high-leverage practices into their instructional toolboxes. Given how much work is required in teaching and the limited time professionals have available, microteaching is an accessible process that supports instructional improvement…
Descriptors: Microteaching, Faculty Development, Evidence Based Practice, Instructional Improvement
Download full textLaura Gough; Rommel Miranda; Matthew Hemm; Leann Norman; Brian Jara – Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2025
The Diffusion of Innovations (DOI) model can be used to explore how faculty prioritize learning about and adopting new pedagogical approaches. Here, we use the DOI framework to contextualize biology faculty perceptions of a professional development (PD) program designed to help them create a full semester course-based undergraduate research…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development, Student Research
Natalia Spyropoulou; Achilles Kameas – European Journal of Education, 2024
This study investigates the multifaceted roles and competences of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) educators and their engagement in Communities of Practice (CoPs). Through an online survey of Greek educators who have implemented STEAM educational projects, employing both closed and open-ended questions, this research…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Art Education, STEM Education, Foreign Countries
Myllykoski-Laine, Siru; Postareff, Liisa; Murtonen, Mari; Vilppu, Henna – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
The teaching and pedagogical development of academic communities is influenced by different contextual elements, which may not be apparent in everyday community practices, but may become evident through deeper reflection of the context. This study approaches these elements from the perspective of a supportive pedagogical culture for teaching and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Communities of Practice, Teacher Attitudes, Values
Rachel Abenavoli; Jessica Siegel; Ashleigh Aviles; Berta Bartoli; Elise Cappella; Pamela Morris-Perez – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background: When New York City's (NYC) Division of Early Childhood Education (DECE) enacted their historic expansion of free programming for four-year-olds under Pre-K for All, they designed a complex system of professional learning (PL) to support teachers and high-quality programming. This study, developed in partnership between NYU and DECE,…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, School Readiness, Preschool Education, Mathematics Instruction
Tocco, Audrey J.; Mehrhoff, Lauren A.; Osborn, Haley M.; McCartin, Lyda F.; Jameson, Molly M. – To Improve the Academy, 2023
Pedagogical metacognition, or the reflective and reflexive actions associated with teaching practice, strengthens the planning, monitoring, evaluation, and adjustment of teaching in higher education faculty. Learning communities are optimal environments to foster this active teaching reflection. This study incorporated pedagogical metacognition…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Teaching Methods, Metacognition, Higher Education
Holden, Mairead – International Journal for Lesson and Learning Studies, 2023
Purpose: This paper presents emerging findings from an ongoing research project which aimed to explore online lesson study (OLS) as a vehicle for teacher collaborative professional learning. Design/methodology/approach: Two parallel OLS cycles with two OLS teams were facilitated by the author using Zoom and Google Drive as digital collaborative…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Teacher Collaboration, Faculty Development, Elementary School Teachers
Victoria Bonaccorso; Helene Leonard; Amy Daniel; Youngjun Kim; Joseph DiNapoli – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2023
Equitable and accessible classrooms should engage all learners with mathematics content in meaningful ways. However, practicing teachers need support from professional development (PD) to learn to teach with this ambitious vision. Informed by sociocultural theory, we employed an evaluative case study methodology to describe, explain, and assess…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Faculty Development, Mathematics Instruction
Hannah Cooke; Todd Campbell; April Luehmann; Yang Zhang; Déana Scipio – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2025
Explicitly attending to justice in science teaching and learning is long overdue. Here, we examined the professional teacher identity development of 13 science teachers as they collaborated in networked professional learning communities (PLCs) to implement and revise a culture-setting unit focused on the science of COVID and engaging in…
Descriptors: Justice, Science Education, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
Lesus, Melina – ProQuest LLC, 2023
In this qualitative case study, I examined how teacher instructional practices and beliefs around teaching literature were impacted after self-selecting into a sustained professional development opportunity called Bard Core. Specifically, I ask, 1. What are the perspectives of secondary ELA teachers as to how a self-selected, year-long,…
Descriptors: Literature, Teaching Methods, Faculty Development, Language Arts
Lisa Clarke; Susan Pike – Irish Educational Studies, 2023
Geography is a subject in the Primary Curriculum in Ireland. It is taught in all schools with some examples of engaging and challenging practices, characterised by enquiry-based learning (EBL) of a range of content, with learning occurring inside and out. In other settings, Geography is more limited in scope and children's geographical experiences…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Teachers
Katrina Ramirez Gonzalez – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study documented an interdisciplinary team of grade 8 teachers' utilization and implementation of research-based reading strategies introduced through collaboration during a Professional Learning Community (PLC). This study also investigated the teachers' perspectives on the implementation of research-based strategies, including the factors…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Grade 8, Evidence Based Practice, Communities of Practice
Rebecca Woodland; Ann M. Leonard; Itza D. Martinez – Teacher Development, 2024
Professional learning communities (PLCs) are a powerful school improvement strategy designed to advance teacher professional development. Protocols are tools for structuring teacher conversations in PLCs. In this article the authors present the results of a qualitative study of teacher perspectives about the value and effects of systematic…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Urban Schools, Communities of Practice, Faculty Development
Susanna Calkins; Anna Conway; Tazin Daniels; Regina F. Frey; Donald L. Gillian-Daniel; Bennett Goldberg; Robin McC. Greenler; Lucas B. Hill; Sarah Chobot Hokanson; Vanessa Johnson-Ojeda; Tershia Pinder-Grover; Sara Armstrong; Diamond Buchanan; Diane Codding; Schnaude Dorizan; Noah Green; Ivan A. Hernandez; Lisa Himelman; Tim Immelman; Omari W. Keeles; Haley Lewis; SuYeong (Sophie) Shin; Veronica Womack; Sara E. Woods; Alessandra M. York – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2024
The authors developed a free online course that centers learning about identity, power, positionality, and privilege to support inclusive teaching for STEM faculty and future faculty. Instructors across all institution types, including community college and 2-year, regional and comprehensive, and public and private research universities, utilized…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Asynchronous Communication, STEM Education, Faculty Development
Hamideh Talafian; Morten Lundsgaard; Maggie S. Mahmood; Eric Kuo; Timothy J. Stelzer – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2025
Although most teachers recognize the importance of taking investigative, open-ended approaches to students' learning experiences, implementing them in high school classes can be challenging for teachers. In this work, we analyzed data from multiple sources from a teaching Community of Practice (CoP) to investigate (a) barriers to taking an…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Laboratory Procedures
