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Direct linkWalster, Dian – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2017
In this article I examine how intersections between information policy and social media affect professional ethics and instructional decision making as considered through the lens of professional development and continuing education. The discussion uses techniques from autoethnography such as personal narrative, figurative language and scenarios.…
Descriptors: Information Policy, Social Media, Ethics, Faculty Development
Tunney, Jessica W.; van Es, Elizabeth A. – New Educator, 2016
We draw on Engeström's (2011a) formative intervention approach to bring together mentor teachers and university supervisors to construct a tool for structuring observations and mentoring student teachers. Data include videos and transcripts from seven meetings where participants discussed mentoring and viewed video records of teaching practice to…
Descriptors: Teacher Educator Education, Faculty Development, Video Technology, Mentors
Download full textCansoy, Ramazan – Journal of Education and Learning, 2017
In this study, the kinds of shares made by science teachers in a WhatsApp group as an online community of practice to support professional development were examined. The netnographic research method, one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the study. The messages shared by 12 science teachers, who worked at a private school between…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Social Media, Faculty Development, Communities of Practice
Huguet, Alice; Farrell, Caitlin C.; Marsh, Julie A. – Journal of Educational Administration, 2017
Purpose: The use of data for instructional improvement is prevalent in today's educational landscape, yet policies calling for data use may result in significant variation at the school level. The purpose of this paper is to focus on tools and routines as mechanisms of principal influence on data-use professional learning communities (PLCs).…
Descriptors: Instructional Improvement, Information Utilization, Evidence Based Practice, Communities of Practice
Ciampa, Katia; Gallagher, Tiffany L. – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2016
This case study research reports on elementary (grade 8) and secondary school (grade 9) teachers' participation in job-embedded, professional learning and engagement in collaborative inquiry. Teachers constructed an inquiry-oriented media literacy unit following the collaborative inquiry model. The current study sought to investigate how…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Inquiry, Literacy, Self Efficacy
Mon, Chiew Chin; Dali, Mohd Hasani; Sam, Lim Chap – Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction, 2016
Purpose: This qualitative study explored the implementation of Lesson Study, a kind of teacher-directed and bottom-up approach of the Japanese model of teacher professional development in the Malaysian education context. It seeks to answer the question of how implementation of lesson study as an innovative professional development model among…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Faculty Development, Qualitative Research, Training Methods
Lamb, Janeen; Diezmann, Carmel; Fox, Jillian – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2015
The aim of this study was to investigate the role of the instructional leader when introducing digital technology into the mathematics teaching in the Australian Curriculum. The research reported here involves the principal and five teachers from one school and is part of a larger study. Results indicated that principal-led "crucial…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Mathematics Instruction, Technology Integration, Technology Uses in Education
Ekanayake, Sakunthala Y.; Wishart, Jocelyn – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2015
This paper presents the development and implementation of a professional development workshop series on integrating mobile phones into science teaching for a group of teachers in Sri Lanka. The series comprised a 3-day Planning Workshop followed by implementation of the planned lessons in real classrooms and a subsequent 1-day Reviewing Workshop.…
Descriptors: Integrated Activities, Technology Integration, Technology Uses in Education, Handheld Devices
Bauml, Michelle – New Educator, 2014
This qualitative case study describes how one beginning primary grade teacher benefited from collaborative lesson-planning meetings with her grade-level colleagues. The teacher accumulated knowledge of curriculum, pedagogy, and professional contexts as she participated in planning meetings each week during her first year of teaching. Furthermore,…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Beginning Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Faculty Development
Campbell, Coral; Chittleborough, Gail – Teaching Science, 2014
A Victorian government initiative called "The Primary Science Specialists Professional Learning Program" is designed to tackle students' falling interest in science by investing in the building of teacher capacity. The aims of the initiative are: to improve the science knowledge base of all teachers and therefore increase teachers'…
Descriptors: Specialists, Instructional Improvement, Science Course Improvement Projects, Science Instruction
Meng, Junyi; Tajaroensuk, Songphorn; Seepho, Sirinthorn – International Education Studies, 2013
The increasing need to learn English worldwide leads to the rapid development in the field of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL). Teachers in this profession are required to reach a much higher level of professionalism now, and their in-service professional development can be an effective approach to updating their professional learning…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Coaching (Performance), Peer Teaching
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
Tidwell, Deborah L.; Wymore, Lisa; Garza, Anel; Estrada, Maricruz; Smith, Howard L. – Studying Teacher Education, 2011
This article describes the use of self-study as a frame for professional learning that grew out of a professional development program for teachers examining their practice in a dual-language K-4 school. Located in the center of the rural state of Iowa, the school's development of a bilingual program for native speakers of both English and Spanish…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Native Speakers, Professional Development, Communities of Practice
