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Okur-Berberoglu, Emel – International Electronic Journal of Environmental Education, 2017
Environmental awareness is evaluated related to cognitive and affective areas so it might be considered one of the important points in order to predict environmental behavioural change. One of the behavioural change models is ecological dynamics model (EDM) and this model's characteristics overlap with ecopedagogy-based outdoor experiential…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Experiential Learning, Environmental Education, Behavior Change
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Turner, Fay; Brownhill, Simon; Wilson, Elaine – Teacher Development, 2017
A cascade model of professional development presents a particular risk that "knowledge" promoted in a programme will be diluted or distorted as it passes from originators of the programme to local trainers and then to the target teachers. Careful monitoring of trainers' and teachers' knowledge as it is transferred through the system is…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Models, Faculty Development, Transfer of Training
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Cox, Dana C.; D'Ambrosio, Beatriz S. – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2015
In the course of engaging with a Mathematics and Science Partnership (MSP) project, we planned a yearlong Leadership Academy that fit under the "train the trainers" model for professional development. Midway through, teacher leaders rejected a traditional conception of leadership based on expertise, individualism, and the transmission of…
Descriptors: Teacher Leadership, Mathematics Teachers, Faculty Development, Models
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Lotter, Christine; Smiley, Whitney; Thompson, Stephen; Dickenson, Tammiee – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
This study investigated a professional development model designed to improve teachers' inquiry teaching efficacy as well as the quality of their inquiry instruction through engaging teachers in practice-teaching and reflection sessions. The programme began with a two-week summer Institute focused on both inquiry pedagogy and science content and…
Descriptors: Models, Faculty Development, Training Methods, Middle School Teachers
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Burke, Brigid M. – Journal of Experiential Education, 2013
An experiential approach to professional development (EPD) allowed Spanish teachers opportunities to improve their practice through demonstration, observation, collaboration, fieldwork, and reflection. As result of "experiential" professional development, Burke (2012) found that teachers' knowledge about communicative language teaching…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Faculty Development, Training Methods, Models