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Jennifer Dixon-Hooks – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how secondary teachers describe the role that the elements of the community of inquiry framework (social, cognitive, and teaching presence) play in a virtual learning environment in a rural school district in South Carolina. The community of inquiry framework was used to guide the…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Distance Education
Rebekah Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
With over 44% of new teachers leaving the profession in the first five years, it is important for teacher education programs to consider how to prepare preservice teachers (PSTs) with the knowledge, skills, and self-efficacy to take on the challenges they will face in the K-12 school system (Ingersoll et al., 2018). Clinically rich methods courses…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Preservice Teachers, Communities of Practice, Skill Development
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
Free-Queen Bongiwe Zulu – South African Journal of Education, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic imposed a quick change to online teaching and learning, emphasising the importance of the community of inquiry (CoI) framework in reimagining the quality of higher education in an online setting. In the study reported on here I focused on how lecturers adopted the CoI to enhance the quality of online learning and teaching of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Distance Education, Electronic Learning
Miriam Jaffe; Madhav Kafle; Erin K. Kelly; Ben Tam – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
Inspired by common read projects, wherein first-year students read a shared text as a means of acclimating to the university community, our writing program adopted a project introducing students to bell hooks' 'Teaching With Love' through an empathy-based pedagogy. The researchers, with faculty participants, used a heuristic method of indwelling…
Descriptors: Empathy, College Freshmen, Reading Programs, School Transition
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
Garrison, D. R. – Online Learning, 2022
The article begins with a review of the shared metacognition construct and its function within the Community of Inquiry theoretical framework. The primary focus of the shared metacognition construct is the role of learners to take responsibility and control for monitoring and managing learning in a community of inquiry. Pragmatic challenges are…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Communities of Practice, Barriers, Teaching Methods
Anthony Miranda – ProQuest LLC, 2024
*English Learners in secondary school settings often face discrepancies in opportunities and outcomes. Methods to address these discrepancies are grounded in an instrumental approach to instruction, wherein educational practitioners are understood to require methodological intervention in the form of professional development by a more experienced…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, High School Students, English Language Learners, Communities of Practice
Cravens, Xiu C.; Hunter, Seth B. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2021
This study tests the hypothesis that teacher-led collaborative inquiry cycles, guided by instructional standards, lead to improved teacher performance and effectiveness. We examine the impact of teachers' self-selection into teacher peer excellence groups (TPEGs), which involves lesson co-planning, peer observation and feedback, and collaborative…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Teacher Collaboration, Teacher Effectiveness, Communities of Practice
Brenda J. Santos – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Since Wineburg (1999) suggested that history is an act of reasoning rather than remembering, historical thinking (or disciplinary history) has become a widely accepted and practiced vision for history instruction in the United States. Yet evidence suggests that this has not contributed to greater student learning or investment. Some scholars have…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Thinking Skills, High School Teachers, Inquiry
Tammy Kraft; Omar Hernández Rodríguez – International Journal for Lesson and Learning Studies, 2024
Purpose: This article aims to identify and describe the research outcomes of studies that have employed the theoretical framework of lesson study (LS) in initial science teacher preparation programs. The focus is on the impact of LS on preservice teachers' (PST) pedagogical and content knowledge, beliefs, routines and norms for professional…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Science Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teacher Education
Rioch, Kathryn E.; Tharp, Jennifer L. – Online Learning, 2022
The purpose of this quantitative, correlational study was to investigate the relationships between perceived online student engagement and self-reported grade point average (GPA) among post-licensure, undergraduate nursing students. Participants for this study were RN-to-BSN students at a mid-sized university in the Midwest. Approximately 110…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Electronic Learning, Teaching Methods, Grade Point Average
Kathryn Salkeld – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2024
This article provides an example of the implementation of school-wide professional learning as part of an Australian Research Council grant and the Catholic Schools Parramatta Diocese (CSPD) called Exploring Mathematical Sequences of Connected, Cumulative and Challenging Tasks (EMC[superscript 3] ) (Sullivan et al., 2021). By using sequences of…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Mathematics, Communities of Practice
Philip Cam – Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis, 2024
Anyone familiar with Matthew Lipman's Community of Inquiry is likely to acknowledge that it cultivates open-mindedness. Even so, bare recognition of this fact is not the same as having a detailed knowledge of what open-mindedness involves and how the Community of Inquiry helps to foster it. To extend our knowledge of these matters, we will conduct…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Persuasive Discourse, World Views, Bias
Franzen, Roberta Maldonado; Benavides, Mac T. – Journal of College and Character, 2023
As a result of ongoing racial tension, interest in learning and development around diversity and inclusion has continued to rise across disciplines in recent decades. To prepare students to lead across differences, leadership educators must cultivate students' capacity to engage in diversity, equity, and inclusion principles. This article…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Communities of Practice, Diversity, Inclusion